Merlene Webber | it
Widely regarded as one of the most creative musicians of his generation, Julian Lloyd Webber has collaborated with an extraordinary array of musicians from Yehudi Menuhin, Lorin Maazel, Neville Marriner, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Georg Solti to Stephane Grappelli, Elton John and Cleo Laine.
Julian has made many outstanding recordings including his Brit-Award winning Elgar Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin (chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine) the Dvorak Concerto with Vaclav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's Concerto with...
Andrew Lloyd Webber è figlio e fratello d'arte: il padre è il compositore William Southcombe Lloyd Webber, mentre il fratello Julian Lloyd Webber è un violoncellista.
In collaborazione con il paroliere Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber ha scritto diversi spettacoli di successo. Il primo fu Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat nel 1968, a cui seguirono i musicals Jesus Christ Superstar e Evita. Entrambi questi due lavori uscirono prima come opera discografica, poi vennero messi in scena in teatro, e successivamente divennero anche un film.
Interrotta la collaborazione con Rice, Webber ha lavorato con altri parolieri per spettacoli come Cats,...
William Southcombe Lloyd Webber (11 March 1914, London–29 October 1982, London) was an English organist and composer.
The son of William Charles Henry Webber, a self-employed plumber, he was fortunate, from a musical point of view, that his father was a keen organ 'buff' who spent what little money he had travelling to hear various organs in and around the capital. Often he would take his son with him, and before long, young William started to play the organ himself and developed a keen interest that bordered on the obsessional.
By the age of 14, William Lloyd Webber had already...
Born in 1952 the Jamaican singer Marlene Webber started her career alongside her sister Joyce in the Webber Sisters. She recorded with Studio One both with her sister and solo, releasing tracks such as "You I Love" and "No Happiness". In 1976 her cover of Cat Stevens "The First Cut is the Deepest" was a Jamaican hit. .
