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Meredith Willson: he wrote and WAS The Music ManA legendary composer, conductor and so much more, Meredith Willson could truly be called the namesake of his ...
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The Music Man-Confidence man Harold Hill arrives at staid River City intending to cheat the community with his standard scam of offering to equip and train a...
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- Andre Morais
Aug 7, 2024 · Sung by Bridget TomlinsonAccompanied by Melissa Morrisrecorded at St Augustine’s Church, Edgbaston was supposed to edit out the last 5 seconds where I walk o...
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The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naïve Midwestern townsfolk, promising to train the members of the new band.
- Meredith Willson, Franklin Lacey, Abba Bogin
- 1983
Mar 28, 2024 · Willson wrote The Music Man over eight years, almost 30 revisions, and this song almost didn’t make the show. A happy accident. Originally a long speech, the diatribe to establish the character of Professor Harold Hill, Willson had thought it overwritten, but while reading it aloud noticed the speech had such strong rhythmic language that he ...
- Joe Stilgoe
He is perhaps best known for writing the book, music, and lyrics for the 1957 hit Broadway musical The Music Man [ 2 ] and " It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas " (1951). Willson wrote three other musicals, two of which appeared on Broadway, [ 3 ] and composed symphonies and popular songs.
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When Meredith Willson was creating his highly successful 1957 play “The Music Man,” he did not have to write a new love song as this hardly-remembered ballad of his from seven years earlier filled the bill nicely and required only minor changes in title and lyrics.
