Who Is Your Favorite Composer?

[Corine2]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:13pm

Inquiring minds want to know!
I want to know.
I have many.
Mine is a tie:
Tesori/Kushner/Scanlan
Lopez and Marx
Updated On: 5/16/05 at 08:13 PM

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:19pm

R&H and Stephen Schwartz!

[Corine2]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:21pm

I loved Pippin.

[defy_gravity]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:23pm

I love Sondheim, myself.
Into the Woods (and Sunday in the Park and Company and Gypsy and Sweeney Todd and Assassins and A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Forum and A Little Night Music and Follies and Merrily We Roll Along and Pacific Overtures and...) kicks ass!

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:24pm

I feel HORRIBLE saying this but... I've always been scared to get the PIPPEN CD! Mainly because of the ppl on it. With me, if I dont like the singers, then I CANT listen to the CD.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:25pm

I'm actually a huge fan of Maury Yeston. And of course, I love Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown. Lippa's music is also quite enjoyable. I can't really say I have a favorite.

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:26pm

Springsteen.

[Corine2]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:27pm

I have to say I don't have 4 favorites. I have 29.
Sondheim is up there. So is Shaiman and Wittman, Hart, Hammerstein, Rodgers, Gershwin.
It would probably be easier to ask what Composers don't you enjoy.

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:29pm

I also sort of forgot Rogers (with Hart preferably) and Tesori.

[KMF_NYC]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:29pm

Jeffery Cotton...it's not theater music...but it's great contemporay chamber and string writing!
The Website of Jeffery Cotton

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:29pm

If I had to pick one, it would be Richard Rodgers. But there are soooooo many other great ones.

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:31pm

One favorite? How about 3?

Gershwin
Bernstein (WWS COME ON!)
R and H

[defy_gravity]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:36pm

Irving Berlin
Rodgers & Hart
Maury Yeston
Sondheim (<333)
Gershiwns
Rogers & Hammerstein

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:36pm

Mozart, Puccini, Beethoven, Mahler, and Tchaikovsky.

[MyDreamsRecurring]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 8:57pm

Um Sondheim

thats a no brainer

[jacobtsf]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 9:01pm

Sondheim is probably my favorite but there are so many.

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 9:03pm

Jonathan Larson, he's a composer in his own right is he not?

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 9:49pm

Jonathan Larson. He's my favorite.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 9:58pm

Stephen Sondheim and Kander & Ebb
Updated On: 5/19/05 at 09:58 PM

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 9:59pm

These teams:

Sondhem
William Finn
Tesori

[Aigoo]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:03pm

Hmm...Saint-Saens, Mozart, Bach. Paganini's Caprices are deadly.


Oh. And Gerswhin. :)

[kitkatgirl54]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:07pm

wow. this is hard.

toss-up between lippa, finn and lachiusa.

and i'd probably be saying larson if he had been able to write more stuff

[little_sally]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:09pm

Sondheim, JRB, and Yeston

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:23pm

Sondheim
Testori
Ahrens and Flaherty
(in no particular order)

[marincrazy11]

Posted: 5/16/05 at 10:26pm

Stephen Flaherty
Stephen Sondheim
and tie between Richard Rodgers and Leonard Bernstein