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Your favorite composer?
#25re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 8:43pmI'm kind of on a Duncan Sheik high right now.
#26re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 8:44pmIt's sick only one person mentioned K&E. Brilliance.
#27re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 8:47pm
1. Leonard Bernstein
2. George Gershwin
3. Alan Menken
4. Ahrens/Flaherty
5. Berlin
Honorable Mention Goes to: Rodgers/Hamerstein
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#28re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 8:50pmMarvin Hamlisch
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#29re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 10:21pm
1. Sondheim
2. Kander
3. Rodgers
4. Loesser
5. Guettel
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#30re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 10:23pm
John Kander/Fred Ebb
Stephen Sondheim
George M. Cohan
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#31re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 10:24pm
Stephen Sondheim
Jeanine Tesori
Charles Strouse
Cy Coleman
John Kander
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#32re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 10:27pm
jason robert brown and adam guettel =)
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#33re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 10:29pm
I noticed that this didn't exclude non-MT composers. So..
Debussy
Rimsky-Korsakov
Vanessa Carlton
-Benjamin
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#34re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 10:33pm
Noel Coward.
Also a fan of Marvin Hamlisch, and Sondheim.
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#35re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 10:48pmAdam Guettel, and not for the show you might think.
#36re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 10:50pm
Composer? For me, Richard Rodgers. Not only for his musicals but also for his concert pieces: Carousel Waltz, Slaughter on 10th Avenue, Victory at Sea. His gift of melody is matched by a sense of musical adventure. Exhibit A: the score of CAROUSEL.
I would say much the same about Gershwin.
Stephen Sondheim writes brilliant scores but with Sondheim the text leads the music (not a bad thing) and as beautiful as a show like PASSION is it would be less effective without the text.
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#37re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 11:44pm
It's really dissapointing to see only one mention of Cy Coleman.
after him...
Gershwin
Porter
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#38re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 11:51pmI feel like a moron for leaving Kander & Ebb and George Gershwin off of my list.
There wouldn't be lights bright enough!
#39re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/29/06 at 11:57pm
Sondheim
Jason Robert Brown
and since we're including non-broadway composers-
Eric Whitacre (GOD of choral music, check him out)
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#40re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 8:10am
JOHN KANDER (& FRED EBB). Absolutely brilliant and fantastic scores!
Also:
S. FLAHERTY (& L. AHRENS)
A. LLOYD WEBBER
ALAN MENKEN
R. RODGERS (& O. HAMMERSTEIN)
Updated On: 12/30/06 at 08:10 AM
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#41re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 8:22amBill Finn!
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#43re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 9:18am
Of the older crew (seems shocking for me to call him older or even old school so I won't) Sondheim hands down...
Younger crew? LaChiusa hands down, just depressing that so much of his work hasbeen left unrecorded.
Older than Sondheim crew? :P While I love most of the classics (from Showboat thru most Rodgers and Hammerstein) I think Leonard Bernstein is someone where I adore everything he wrote for stage (yep even the rare Peter Pan and his 1980s opera sequel to Tahiti - a Quiet Place, one of my rarer theatre CDs)
I love people liek Kander and Ebb, Ahrens and Flahherty but they all have shows that I think are MUCH better than others--so it's less consistant (ie I really think K%E work best with a strong director's guidance--be it Fosse, or Hal Prince with Cabaret, Kiss and the underated Zorba)
#44re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 10:41am
1. Alan Menken (duh)
2. Bill Finn
3. Kander/Ebb
4. Jeanine Tesori
5. Cy Coleman
#45re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 10:57am
Stephen Sondheim
Cole Porter
Jerry Herman
George Gershwin
John Kander
Jerome Kern
Jerry Bock
Of new composers? JRB
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#46re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 11:57am
Great question. I had put an original list in my head, but it wasn't fair. I'm thinking that my favorites are probably those I end up listening to the most . . . so . . .
Sondheim
Kander
Yeston
Flaherty
Coleman
but isn't it great that there are tons of others that are great too? Let's hear it for lyrical theater!
#47re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 12:07pm
1. Gershwin
2. Rodgers
3. Styne
4. Sondheim
5. Porter
6. Loesser
7. Herman
8. Kern
9. Bernstein
10. Coleman
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#48re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 12:14pm
Sondheim
Kander
Coleman
My three main men.
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#49re: Your favorite composer?
Posted: 12/30/06 at 7:36pm
Cy Coleman
Stephen Sondheim
Charles Strouse
Jule Styne
Harvey Schmidt
Stephen Schwartz
Cole Porter
Lionel Bart
Jason Robert Brown
Frank Wildhorn
John Kander
Frank Loesser
Gershwin
Anthony Newley
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Adam Guettel
Richard Rodgers
Jerry Herman
Frederic Loewe
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