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Review: New York Pops Gala Concert Salutes Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg
Though they call the Broadway era of sung-through mega-musicals that began dominating Times Square in the s The British Invasion, a French composer and a Tunisian bookwriter/lyricist had quite a bit to do with it.
As the creators of LES MISERABLES and MISS SAIGON, which came to Broadway via producer Cameron Mackintosh's London productions, the influence of librettist Alain Boublil and composer Claude-Michel Schönberg is still felt today, both in new musicals by others that tell grand stories with pop-influenced scores of operatic scales and in revivals of their own work. LES MISERABLES is currently enjoying its third visit to Broadway and the first Gotham revival of MISS SAIGON is on its way from the West End.
With Mackintosh perched above in Carnegie Hall's first tier, artistic director and conductor Steven Reineke led the sterling New York Pops in a 33rd Anniversary gala concert honoring Boublil and Schönberg that featured an impressive collection of guest vocalists who have all had a connection with one of the pair's shows. The program was titled "Do You Hear The People Sing?" and as the pair are noted for writing material that is both vocally and emotionally demanding, it was loaded with big voices and passionate acting.
After opening with a Reineke-arranged overture, the program was divided into sections representing each of their five collaborations. Music director Judith Clurman's Essential Voices USA, stationed upstage to provide choral work throughout the evening, introduced the MISS SAIGON tribute with "The Heat Is On In Saigon," followed by Eva Noblezada, star of the West End revival, singing "I'd Give My Life For You." The original Broadway production's star, Lea Salonga, joined her for "The Movie In My Mind."
Jeremy Jordan belted out "Why, God, Why?" foll
In this film awards season, two works embody enduring pinnacles of idealism.
I have a horse in this race, I confess. In , I translated with Lee Fahnestock, the Signet Classics edition of Les Miserables. Published in for the opening of the musical on Broadway, it is the official tie-in edition to the show, with the same logo: little Cosette and the tattered French flag. It is the only complete, unabridged, modern American translation of the novel. Over the past 25 years, our book has become the most popular English-language translation of Les Miserables.
In the spirit of awards season, Lee Fahnestock and I want to publicly thank our predecessor, C. E. Wilbour, on whose impassioned translation we based ours, and our brilliant editor, LuAnn Walther.
A word about Charles Edwin Wilbour (). He was a journalist and lawyer in New York. His translation of Les Miserables was made during the American Civil War. In the s he traveled to Egypt on archaeolgical digs, and his collection of books and artifacts forms the basis of the Brooklyn Museum's Egyptian collection.
Hugo, Lincoln, and Wilbour lived in times of revolution and civil war. The nightmare society Hugo depicts in Les Miserables is one so cruel that it sends a poor man to prison for nineteen years because he stole a loaf of bread, and then persecutes him for the rest of his days. "Then he asked himself if it was not a serious thing that he, a workman, could not have found work and that he, an industrious man, should have been without bread" (p. 88 of our edition of Les Miserables).
Victor Hugo () was in his time the world's most popular writer. He was one of the century's two great world-encompassing novelists, Leo Tolstoy (), with War and Peace, the other.
Hugo was an indomitable opponent of slavery and capital punishment and a champion of the rights of the people. When he died at age 83 in , two million people lined the streets of Paris to pay their respects as his coffin passed by o Tony Award winner Hugh Jackman has posted a photograph of himself with Les Miserables composer Claude Michel Schoenberg to his Twitter account. In addition, Jackman has announced he will sing a new song that Schoenberg has composed for the movie. As previously announced, Jackman will star as Jean Valjean in the movie version of the popular stage musical, which will be directed by Academy Award winner Tom Hooper and be released on December 7, The cast will also feature Russell Crowe as Javert, Anne Hathaway as Fantine, Eddie Redmayne as Marius, Amanda Seyfried as Cosette, Samantha Barks as Eponine, Aaron Tveit as Enjolras, and Colm Wilkinson as the Bishop of Digne, as well as Tony Award winner Frances Ruffelle, who will appear in the &#;Lovely Ladies&#; sequence of the movie. In addition, Helena Bonham Carter and Sasha Baron Cohen will reportedly play the Thenardiers.PHOTO FLASH: Hugh Jackman, Claude Michel Schoenberg at Les Miserables Movie Rehearsal
Chronological biography created by A-S Barthel-Calvet.
May Iannis was born in Braila, Romania, in the home of Clearchos Xenakis and Photini Pavlou, Greeks of the diaspora (the date of birth is, however, uncertain: it could be May 1 and, for the year, ). He is the elder of two other boys, Cosmas and Jason. One of them will become a painter and the other a professor of philosophy in the United States.
His father, the son of a farmer from Euboea, ran an English import-export agency; his mother, a good pianist, spoke fluent French and German. She gave her son a flute as a gift and wanted him to play music.
His mother, pregnant, dies of measles. The children are raised by French, English and German governesses.
Iannis leaves Romania for Greece: his father took him to the Greek-English school on the island of Spetses. The teenager&#;s taste for mathematics, Greek and foreign literature was awakened, as well as the discovery of music.
Autumn: leaves for Athens, in preparatory class for the entrance exam to the Polytechnio (National Technical University of Athens).
Xenakis begins to compose and takes lessons in analysis, harmony and counterpoint with Aristotle Koundourov.
He creates a geometric transcription of Bach&#;s works.
He passed the entrance exam to the National Technical University of Athens, but the first day of school, October 28, Mussolini&#;s troops invaded Greece and the school had to close. It reopened and then closed several times.
Xenakis joined the Resistance, first in a right-wing party, then he joined the EAM (Communist Party): he was at the forefront of the great popular demonstrations against the occupier. He was imprisoned several times, first by the Italians, then by the Germans.
&#;I came into contact with the communist and socialist parties and their ideas. (…) I realized that the right-wing resistance was useless. The communists were questioning social affairs, the causes of the war; they were more effective against the
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