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Which composers do you prefer?

musicmancdl07

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Which composers do you prefer?#0
Posted: 10/13/03 at 2:02pm

Ive heard a lot of people that go for different composers. Some people i know only like Andrew Lloyd Webber and some people i know who go to my school love Rodgers and Hammerstein. I love them both But who do you think is better? Either, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rodgers and Hammerstien, or Irving Berlin. Tell me why you like the composer

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re: Which composers do you prefer?#1
Posted: 10/13/03 at 2:09pm

Man, is the word 'better' going to turn this into a hornet's nest!

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re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#2
Posted: 10/13/03 at 3:24pm

How about all of the above?

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re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#3
Posted: 10/13/03 at 3:27pm

Why only those choices?

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re: re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#4
Posted: 10/13/03 at 4:57pm

yeah...more choices. Not that I have anything against "oldies" when it comes to musicals, but there are a lot more contemporary composers who I prefer much, much more.

Frank Wildhorn to name one :c)

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re: re: re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#5
Posted: 10/13/03 at 6:20pm

How about Sondheim?

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re: re: re: re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#6
Posted: 10/13/03 at 7:25pm

Yeah I agree, there should be more choices......I would like to mention composers like Frank Wildhorn, Maury Yeston, Elton John, Jim Steinman, etc..........

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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#7
Posted: 10/13/03 at 7:58pm

or Claude-Michel Schonberg

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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#8
Posted: 10/13/03 at 8:44pm

Jonathan Larson and Frank Wildhorn.

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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#9
Posted: 10/13/03 at 8:50pm

Sondheim,Schwartz,JRB,Wildhorn,Boublil and Shoenberg,Maury Yeston,John Kander,and some ALW(JCS,Joseph,and Evita).

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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#10
Posted: 10/13/03 at 8:51pm

I agree with Yeston, Kander & Ebb & Sondheim & Webber

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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#11
Posted: 10/13/03 at 9:02pm

Lippa, JRB, Guettel, and I'm getting into some Kander and Ebb stuff...I forget whos the actual composer there though...of the oldies: COLE PORTER IS THE MAN.

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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#12
Posted: 10/13/03 at 9:03pm

John Kander is the composer....and I'll add Cole Porter,Cy Coleman,Andrew Lippa,and Jerry Herman to my list.

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Which composers do you prefer?#13
Posted: 10/13/03 at 9:51pm

Jonathan Larson, Sondheim, and Elton John/Tim Rice.

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re: Which composers do you prefer?#14
Posted: 10/13/03 at 10:33pm

Let's see. Jason Robert Brown, Jonathan Larson, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and John Kander. Style points go to Andrew Lippa, Frederick Loewe, Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus for Wild Party, My Fair Lady, Les Misérables, and Chess, respectively. Between them, you've got a vast range of styles, and that fits my ear perfectly.

-Wayne

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re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#15
Posted: 10/13/03 at 10:38pm

Jerry Herman. Plain. Dot. Period.

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re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#16
Posted: 10/13/03 at 10:41pm

Frank Wildhorn is one of those people who can turn the page and jump into a completely different style of music. I mean he is really brilliant.

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re: re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#17
Posted: 10/13/03 at 10:59pm

I agree about Wildhorn. I also enjoy Porter, Styne, Bernstein Schwartz, Boubil, Jason Robert Brown, Flaherty!!!... and most of all, Sondheim!

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re: re: re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#18
Posted: 10/13/03 at 11:38pm

Sondheim, hands down. But I do enjoy Kander & Ebb, Rogers and Hammerstein, and Frank Wildhorn as well.

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re: re: re: re: re: re: Which composers do you prefer?#19
Posted: 10/14/03 at 8:33am

Rodgers and Hammerstein
Lerner and Lowe
Andrew Lloyd Webber ( with Tim Rice/Charles Hart/Don Black)
Boublil and Schonberg
Stephen Sondheim

I also enjoy occasional songs from other composers.