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Article: The Age Demanded Lloyd Webber.(Andrew Lloyd Webber, theatrical composer)
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- The World and I
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- December 1, 1999
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Is Andrew Lloyd Webber--the creative force behind such cultural icons as Evita, Phantom of the Opera, and Cats--a theatrical genius, or a charlatan mimicking contemporary trends and tastes?
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The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace ...
----Ezra Pound
A few years ago an amusing anecdote about Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber was doing the rounds. It was said to have taken place just as he completed the hit song "Memory" for the show Cats. Uncomfortably aware of complaints that the song echoed other people's music, Lloyd Webber played it for his father and ...