The composer teams up with George Bernard Shaw in taking an irreverent look at Shakespeare.
CARL DAVIS AND THE KNIGHTS: "THE CHARLIE CHAPLIN MUTUALS" As part of the Celebrate Brooklyn! series, Great Britain's most prestigious film composer teams up with the dashing young Brooklyn chamber orchestra to offer his new scores for three classic Chaplin shorts — "The Rink," "The Immigrant," and "The Adventurer" — synchronized with showings of the films.
"I think a case can even be made that with Leone and [Ennio] Morricone that they are the best director-composer team in the history of film," he commented.
But Goethe produced only draft fragments of a sequel, not only because he could not find a suitable composer to team up with but also because Schikaneder got wind of the Weimar plan and pre-empted it.
(Some would say it is the masterpiece of the composer-librettist team of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, best known for "Fiddler on the Roof").
Neither singer is particularly at home in the wholesome optimism associated with that composer-lyricist team, and you have to admire their adventurousness in choosing to include significant chunks of dialogue from the shows, in addition to selected songs.
TODD REYNOLDS/TALUJON PERCUSSION The violinist and composer Todd Reynolds teams up with the Talujon Percussion Quartet for what is promised as a fresh look at the music of Meredith Monk, Giacinto Scelsi, Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
A brief television review in Weekend on Friday about the 1957 CBS broadcast of "Cinderella," by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, which starred Julie Andrews and is being shown on PBS stations this month, credited another Broadway musical to the composer-lyricist team erroneously.
Berkeley's wife being McEwan's agent, the two are old friends, so For You emerges as the product of a composer-librettist team working, for once, as equals.
The production features a score by the composer-lyricist team Benj Pasek and Justin Paul ("Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach" ) and a book by Joseph Robinette ("Charlotte's Web") based on the writings of the radio humorist Jean Shepherd and the 1983 ChristmasStoryry" film.
