Who are Lerner and Loewe?

Frederick Loewe, born in Berlin in 1901, was a composer who came to the United States in 1924 and died in California in 1988. The child began to compose miracles at the age of seven and at the age of 13. His first hit, a song called "Katrina", was written when he was 15. But after his move to the US, his work did not get much attention, even though he joined with lyricist Earle Crooker.

In 1942, Loewe met Alan Jay Lerner at the New York Theater Club. Lerner - Born in New York, where he also died in 1986 - had written radio scripts and texts before he met Loewe. The Lerner and Loewe team was created, but got on the rocky start. Their first Broadway production was a failure and the second had a short -term.Tish Highlands, which is accessible to the rest of the world for only one day for every hundred years. This was their first hit and was filmed in the film in 1954. The best -known songs JSou probably the title song "Brigadoon", "Heather on the Hill" and "almost like to be in love."

Next came to paint your car , set in California during the golden fever, which opened on Broadway in 1951, and in 1969 was filmed into the film. The most popular songs were "I am talking to trees" and "they call Wind Maria." It was the fourth Lerner and Loewe musical

Paint Your Wagon followed by a very successful Broadway Music score: My Fair Lady , which set a record for the longest production in Broadway's first run in 1956. The production received nine Tony awards, including the best musical. In 1976, 1981, 1993, Broadway's revival and revival of West End in 2001, all of which received at least one prize. Well -known songs include "The Rain in Spain", "I could dance all night", "on the street where you live," "Wouldn't it be Milene?" "Get me in a church in time," and "JSeven Academy Awards were awarded a 1964 film version.

Lerner and Loewe also made production directly for the film: Gigi , which won nine Academy awards. Based on the amendment to Colette, which has already undergone several adaptations, the gigi Academy Award for the best picture of 1958. One of the well -known songs is the title song and "Thank you Heaven for little girls."

Camelot , other production of Lerner and Loewe, was another hit as as a musical (1960), which won five Tony awards, and as a film (1967), which won three Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. The most famous song can be "if I left you". During the production, there was tension during Lerner and Loewe and spent decades in cooperation with other collaborators before unification at the beginning of the 70th year to adapt to Gigi for stage production in 1973 and writing a score for the film The Prince in 1974.