Lloyd Webber: Requiem

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The work, although a Latin Requiem Mass, was inspired by a tragic article Andrew read in the New York Times about a Cambodian boy who suffered under the Khmer Rouge, and is also dedicated to his father, William Lloyd Webber, who had died in 1982. It includes the song “Pie Jesu,” which remains one of the composer’s most popular works and has been covered by many artists, including Charlotte Church, Anna Netrebko, Marie Osmond and Katherine Jenkins. The 100 most powerful people in British culture". The Daily Telegraph. 9 November 2016. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022. London's Longest-Running Musical To Close". The Indianapolis Star. 20 August 1980. p.25 . Retrieved 8 June 2020.

Requiem won the 1986 Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. [2] The most popular segment of Requiem has been the Pie Jesu, which became a hit single and has been recorded by numerous artists. Yes, that’s all very true. Although it is common in the English choral tradition to feature boy sopranos as soloists, they are not used quite in this way. The crucial thing here is that, ideally, the [female] soprano should also be much younger than one who would normally be used, to keep the suggestion that [the two singers] could be brother and sister. It works less well if you have a bigger, very full soprano voice. It needs the younger interplay between them, particularly in the "Pie Jesu." Yet it’s difficult to find a soprano with the ability to sing a note purely and totally straight; this is not something you often find in a soprano with conventional classical training. Obviously, I’m especially pleased with the way my wife, Sarah [Brightman], sings it. Lloyd Webber's Picasso to be sold after Nazi row settled". Agence France-Presse. 17 March 2010. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013 . Retrieved 18 March 2010.Midgley, Neil (11 September 2009). "Andrew Lloyd Webber to audition dogs for The Wizard of Oz 's Toto". The Daily Telegraph. UK. Archived from the original on 14 September 2009 . Retrieved 3 January 2010.

Wiegand, Chris (10 January 2020). "Killing Eve's Emerald Fennell and Andrew Lloyd Webber create new Cinderella". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 January 2020.Lloyd Webber has been married three times. He married first Sarah Hugill on 24 July 1971 and they divorced on 14 November 1983. Together they had two children, a daughter and a son: Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Legend and Tim Rice join the ranks of EGOT winners". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 10 January 2022 . Retrieved 29 June 2019. Lloyd Webber (middle) with his then-wife Sarah Brightman (right) in 1985. He would cast her as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera which debuted in London the following year. Oddly enough, there was a tremendous interest in trying to detour me from going to the theater with Phantom of the Opera and to make it into a movie instead. But I managed successfully to dodge those telephone calls. I have no intention of abandoning the theater!