tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post8674779852899849630..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Music Monday ~ Frederick Loewe & Alan Jay Lerner aka Lerner & LoeweTwilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-5287642311632492932015-06-08T23:54:18.076-05:002015-06-08T23:54:18.076-05:00Anonymous ~ Great voice, great talent - yes! Who...Anonymous ~ Great voice, great talent - yes! Who can tell what "celebs" see in one another ? - Maybe they are blinded by a reflection of the adulation they each receive from their fans.Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-56403359289026989462015-06-08T22:14:07.395-05:002015-06-08T22:14:07.395-05:00I could listien to Richard Burton read the phone b...I could listien to Richard Burton read the phone book. What a voice, what an actor. I wish he had stayed primarily in the theater. He might have lived longer. I was one who never understood what he saw in Elizabeth Taylor. I suspect he had Buyer's Remorse after a few years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-26183287930264661492015-06-08T12:29:58.461-05:002015-06-08T12:29:58.461-05:00Bob ~ Thanks for these details. Goodness me! All...Bob ~ Thanks for these details. Goodness me! All those wives and divorces! Was he exercising his Virgoan quest for perfection, one wonders? :-)<br /><br />It seems that Loewe was less adventurous, married and divorced just once (1931-57), lived longer (to age 86), though often in fragile health due to heart problems.<br /><br />From Loewe's obit in New York Times<br />http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/15/obituaries/frederick-loewe-dies-at-86-wrote-my-fair-lady-score.html<br /><br /><i>When Lerner died in 1986, Mr. Loewe was too ill to attend a memorial tribute at the Shubert Theater. But the composer delivered the following message that was read by Kitty Carlisle Hart: "I was always amazed how good we were and how simple it was,'' he wrote, and concluded with a fragment of a Lerner lyric: "I loved you once in silence. Farewell, my boy." </i> <br />Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-27639416917465583412015-06-08T11:26:06.106-05:002015-06-08T11:26:06.106-05:00http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0503585/bio
Alan Jay L...http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0503585/bio<br /><br />Alan Jay Lerner<br />Date of Birth 31 August 1918, New York City, New York, USA<br />Date of Death 14 June 1986, New York City, New York, USA (lung cancer)<br /><br />"Height 5' 7" (1.7 m) <br /><br />Spouse (8)<br /><br />Ruth O'Day Boyd (26 June 1940 - 1947) (divorced) (1 child) <br />Marion Bell (26 September 1947 - 15 September 1949) (divorced)<br />Nancy Olson (10 March 1950 - November 1957) (divorced) (2 children)<br />Micheline Muselli Pozzo diBorgo (25 December 1957 - September 1965?) (divorced) (1 child)<br />(INSERTED FOR TIME INFO [ http://topics.time.com/alan-jay-lerner/articles/Milestones: Milestones: Oct. 1, 1965 Divorced. Alan Jay Lerner, 47, Broadway lyricist (Camelot, the upcoming On a Clear Day You Can See Forever); by Micheline Lerner, 37, his fourth wife; on... ])<br />Karen Gunderson (15 November 1966 - 30 April 1974) (divorced)<br />Sandra Payne (10 December 1974 - 1976) (divorced)<br />Nina Bushkin (30 May 1977 - 1981) (divorced)<br />Liz Robertson (18 August 1981 - 14 June 1986) (his death)"<br /><br />First married at 21 years, 9 months, 26 days old. Unmarried approximately 3 years out of the next 46 when he died.<br /><br />From Wikipedia: "For nearly twenty years he battled an amphetamine addiction; . . ."<br /><br />http://www.nysun.com/out-and-about/dr-feelgood/20251/<br /><br />"By the late 1930s, German refugee Max Jacobson, M.D., had established a general practice on the Upper East Side catering to writers, musicians, and entertainers who nicknamed him "Miracle Max" or "Dr. Feelgood" for the "vitamin injection" treatments that made them happy and gave them seemingly limitless energy. Jacobson's panacea was 30 to 50 milligrams of amphetamines - the mood-elevating neural energizers also known as speed . . ."<br /><br />"When Alan Jay Lerner was working around the clock on a musical, he might see Miracle Max five times daily, sometimes as late as 11 p.m."<br /><br />http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-15/news/mn-11243_1_alan-jay-lerner <br /><br />"Officials at the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center said Lerner succumbed about 10:15 a.m. to the illness that had hospitalized him for the last two months."Bobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-52932872086000371632015-06-08T11:13:43.304-05:002015-06-08T11:13:43.304-05:00mike ~ "Camelot" was one show/film that ...mike ~ "Camelot" was one show/film that seemed to pass me by. I had a lot going on during those years, all fairly non-Camelot-ish too, maybe that's why it has never been among my favourites. <br /><br />Interesting point about Jupiter/Saturn - it matched Loewe's natal conjunction, and many years later returned as their show was "taking flight", bringing with it both success and distress. If I'm still around in Dec. 2020 I'll try to remember to watch what happens! ;-)<br /><br />Yes, Arthurian tales and legends have, for some reason, managed to grab, and hold, the public's imagination.<br />My favourite "bit", from Tennyson's famous Arthurian poem:<br /><br /><i><br /> Out flew the web and floated wide-<br /> The mirror crack'd from side to side;<br /> "The curse is come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott.<br /><br /></i>Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-84591935217999422682015-06-08T10:29:18.196-05:002015-06-08T10:29:18.196-05:00I'm not much a fan of Broadway musicals, but &...I'm not much a fan of Broadway musicals, but "Camelot" was popularized just as I left my youth for adulthood, and I remember the "Camelot" buzz and chatter. America was enthralled with the music, not to mention the actors. Sadly, it predicated the harshness to come over the next several years, as the innocence of that period transitioned toward anarchy. Interesting to note that the play opened October 1, 1960, and there was a Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 25* Capricorn four months later. That very Jupiter-Saturn twenty-year-cycle comes full-circle in December, 2020, when Jupiter-Saturn, after both conjunct Pluto in late Capricorn, are conjunct at 1* Aquarius.<br /><br />Fascinating too, that the myth of Camelot, like Avalon, is so active in our human collective. It was 1989 when Mark Twain mainstreamed Camelot with his "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court".mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-87414319690668722722015-06-08T10:11:43.402-05:002015-06-08T10:11:43.402-05:00Sonny ~ Me too. Songs from old movie musicals wer...Sonny ~ Me too. Songs from old movie musicals were my first love in the world of music. First LP I bought with my pocket money, while still at school, was Mario Lanza's songs from The Student Prince (saw the film several times); then it was on to Gordon MacRae, Carousel, Oklahoma etc etc. To be honest, nothing has changed, except the shows - I'd still rather listen to my CDs of Evita or Les Miserables than anything or anyone else (except, maybe, Frankie - but only him!) :-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-59401618111885683722015-06-08T09:05:22.653-05:002015-06-08T09:05:22.653-05:00surely some of the most beautiful music ever writt...surely some of the most beautiful music ever written.. I love broadway show music!Sonny Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06926830309207639536noreply@blogger.com