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#51

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 4:34pm

Sondheim
Porter
Ahrens and Flaherty

Honorable Mention:
Jerry Herman
Jeanine Testori
Kander and Ebb
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#52

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:01pm


My favorites in no particular order:

Stephen Sondheim ( how could I not include him?)

George Gershwin (Porgy and Bess is one of my absolute favorites)

Leonard Bernstein (love Candide and West Side Story)

Honorable Mention:
Alan Menken
Stephen Schwartz
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Alain Boubil
Claude-Michal Schonberg

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#53

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:19pm

1. Steve Sondheim- seriously, THE greatest living theater composer...the mans work is so thrilling and i love his shows and worship the ground he walks.

2. JRB- lyrical genuis and the reality of his shows and the layers in his music makes you love his stuff! It's incredibly and I'm DYING for his next show!

3. MJL- sorry...i know he's not everyones favorite but i really love his score and how goes there and when you watch his peices the music soars. I think his stuff is harder to appreciate on recording but the power of something like Marie Christine is undeniable!
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#54

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 5:32pm

The first three to come to mind (and not necessarily in this order) are:

Jerome Kern
George Gershwin
Cole Porter

Richard Rogers and ALW will elbow their way into that group at any point in time.
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#57

re: Choose Your Three Favourite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 8:13pm

1. Leonard Bernstein
2. Andrew Lloyd Webber
3. Stephen Flaherty

Honorable mentions:
Jonathan Larson
David Yazbek
Richard Rodgers
Frederick Loewe
John Kander
Boubill/Schoenberg
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#58

re: Choose Your Three Favorite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 8:19pm

Jason Robert Brown
Michael John Lachiusa
Stephen Sondheim

Honorable mention goes to Jonathan Larson, unfortunately not enough of his work exists for me to really decide if he is a favorite or not.

And how JRB isn't on every single person's list blows my mind. I think he is so bloody brilliant.
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#59

re: Choose Your Three Favorite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 8:21pm

Stephen Sondheim
Jason Robert Brown
John Kander and Fred Ebb
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#60

re: Choose Your Three Favorite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 8:38pm

Jonathan Larson
Stephen Sondheim
Jason Robert Brown

Honorable Mentions:
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Leonard Bernstein
George Gershwin
Stephen Schwartz
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#61

re: Choose Your Three Favorite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 8:41pm

Tough, but at the moment I'd go with

Sondheim
JRB
William Finn

And close behind are are Ahrens and Flaherty, Cole Porter, Gershwin, and Rodgers.
#62

re: Choose Your Three Favorite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 8:50pm

Michael John LaChiusa is my absolute favorite.
Stepehn Sondheim
Jason Robert Brown


I can't not mention Leonard Bernstein, Jeanine Tesori, and Jonathon Larson (limited work to judge on, but I absolutely love every bit of it), though.
#65

re: Choose Your Three Favorite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 9:18pm

Sondheim
JRB
Yeston

I really love Aherns and Flaherty's work as well, and I'm beginning to fall in love with and appreciate LaChiusa.
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#68

re: Choose Your Three Favorite Composers!

Posted: 2/26/06 at 9:41pm

Composers working today:
Michael John LaChiusa
Jeanine Tesori
Ricky Ian Gordon

(Honorable mentions: Marvin Hamlisch, William Finn, Adam Guettel, Stephen Flaherty, Henry Krieger)

Classic:
George Gershwin
Richard Rodgers
Irving Berlin

(Honorable mentions: Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne, Cy Coleman)

Updated On: 2/26/06 at 09:41 PM

#72

re: Choose Your Three Favorite Composers!

Posted: 2/27/06 at 10:19am

Sondheim, Strouse and Kander

Honourable Mention:
Coleman, Rodgers, Herman, Loesser, Lane, Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, ALW, Schmidt, Kern, Shire and so many more...
#74

re: Choose Your Three Favorite Composers!

Posted: 2/27/06 at 10:34am

1. Jule Styne
2. Steven Sondheim
3. Jerry Herman
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