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Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.It is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the "Jellicle choice" by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- 1981
E. Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens. Evangeline (1874 musical) Evangeline (1999 musical)
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Betsy Schwarm. Erlkönig, song setting by Franz Schubert, written in 1815 and based on a 1782 poem of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. “Erlkönig” is considered by many to be one of the greatest ballads ever penned. The song was written for two performers, a singer and a pianist, and it packs a.
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William Butler Yeats. "An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish ...
The Pied Piper of Hamelin. by Robert Browning. ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’ by Robert Browning is an entertaining poem about the importance of telling the truth and keeping one’s promises. Browning tells the story of a German piper who lures rats away from town with his music. It dates back to the Middle Ages but it was this version of the ...
Mar 21, 2024 · Like most of these ‘best poetic musicians’ lists, this one doesn’t distinguish between good pop song lyrics and musical poetry. Early Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and maybe some of Patti Smith ...
Mar 2, 2019 · Sonnet 49 by Pablo Neruda. Luciana Souza has made an entire album of songs created from Pablo Neruda’s poems in English translations, but before you buy the CD, you can view this cut, a lovely solo performance of Sonnet 49, just Souza’s voice accompanied by her own karimba (African thumb piano). Cite this Article.
