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Before Andrew Lloyd Webber, there was Charles Gounod. By turning Gounod's philosophical drama Faust...
...Hill's Phantom of the Opera. First produced in England in 1976, this comic melodrama had a book by Hill and a score by Ian Armit. In 1984 Hill dropped the original music and wrote new lyrics to arias by Gounod, Offenbach, Verdi, Mozart and Donizetti. Lloyd Webber considered producing an embellished version of it, then decided to do his own. Thank heavens. Hill's backstage farce is a kind of Noises Off without the wit, and the cast plays it as hammy gaslight farce -- a penny dreadful that at today's prices plays like a $32.50 dreadful. It alights...
John Kenley's Phantom of the Opera. A play with music (most of it adapted from Gounod, with new songs by David Gooding) that was commissioned by summer-stock impresario John Kenley, it toured...
...same time and around the corner at the Longy school, Music from Marlboro, now in its 13th season, draws nine artists to Cambridge to perform Beethoven's Octet for Winds Op. 103, Gounod's "Petite Symphonie" and a Mozart Serenade. Show up at the door at 7:30 to get a seat. For more info, call 353-3355. The Busch-Reisinger Thursday Noon Recital Series features the Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble this afternoon. Another free event is a concert at the Somerville Public Library, Highland Ave. and Walnut St., this Sunday at 3 p.m. Selections include soprano, flute and harp...
...tidy series of yellow three-by-five cards and places them on the President's desk so that he can make mental notes of what he is hearing. Some of the music for this Wednesday: Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Verdi's Otello, Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, selections from Puccini and Mozart...