| re: I don’t get the love | |
| Posted by: EvFoDr 01:08 pm EST 01/01/25 | |
| In reply to: re: I don’t get the love - Chromolume 12:37 pm EST 12/29/24 | |
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| Great points about Norma's songs, although compared to you I guess I just let them wash over me and enjoy for what they are. But your post also makes me notice that in comparison, Lloyd Webber really hit the mark with The Greatest Star of All. It has this throb to it and these moody chromatics that immediately make me think I am listening to the score or theme song of a movie. I wonder if what you are looking for is some sort of pastiche? With Salome in there I wonder if he didn't want to pursue more. I think Salome evokes something of its setting. A friend of mine humorously describes As If We Never Said Goodbye as an AAAAAABAAA song structure (many A's added for emphasis). But it's true. The A section is repeated over and over, and the short B section is repurposed from his own work (Half A Moment from Jeeves). As much as I love his shows--these moments of seemingly avoidable laziness and repitition do puzzle me. As the years went by each new show seemed to have less and less disctinct melodies in it. I once did a comparison which I'll not count precisely again today, and Evita has close to 30, while Sunset barely breaks 10. My point is I wish he would write more distinct melodies to define characters and moments. Then at the end give us his "final sequence" sort of thing where he dramaturgically repeats melodies from throughout the evening to tie it all together and to often stunning effect. |
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