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Article: Art: A life of saying it with song `The Secret Garden', a Broadway award-winning musical of the children's classic, opens here tomorrow. Lucy Simon, the composer of its haunting score, talks to Edward Seckerson
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 27, 2000
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The song was called "Lily's Eyes" and its unique quality was hard
to define. Nearly a decade has passed since I first heard it, driving
down the Pacific Coast Highway towards Los Angeles unaware of what it
was and where it had originated. A musical play, clearly. But nothing
I'd ever heard before. There were two male voices chiming as one. A
duet for one. From the lyric it was plain that they were brothers,
both still in love with the same woman, both stirred again by a
striking resemblance in the eyes of another - a young girl.
But it was the melody which conveyed their passion. It was
possessed of the strangest quality - like a folksong transfigured.
Transfigured almost operatically. ...