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As with the previous instalments, Danny Elfman composed the score for Men in Black 3. Elfman utilized the musical ideas from the predecessors and used predominantly orchestral elements in the score, which was being transitioned to electronic and rock music along with the choir elements being provided in the finale. [1]
Many theatre writers have cautiously identified The Black Crook as the first popular piece that conforms to the modern notion of a musical. [1] The book is by Charles M. Barras. The music, selected and arranged by Thomas Baker, consists mostly of adaptations, but it included some new songs composed for the piece, notably "You Naughty, Naughty Men".
In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy is a landmark 1903 American musical comedy described by theatre historian Gerald Bordman as "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house." [2] It features music by Will Marion Cook, book by Jesse A. Shipp, and lyrics by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. [3]
The use of songs as a narrative and a tool to convey an important message continued into the 20th century with Black Americans using their voices to help their fight for freedom and equality.
George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1935) – starring Will Marion Cook's wife Abbie Mitchell among many others – is the most famous black musical of the 1930s. It is called a black musical because of the African American cast, even though neither the music or plot is of the “Negro inspiration” like the creators proclaim. "Porgy and Bess ...
The Black Crook (1866), which some historians consider the first modern musical [23] Around 1850, the French composer Hervé was experimenting with a form of comic musical theatre that came to be called opérette. [24] The best known composers of operetta were Jacques Offenbach from the 1850s to the 1870s and Johann Strauss II in the 1870s and ...
The Black Crook was a long-running musical on Broadway in 1866. [1]Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated who
June is Black Music Appreciation Month. What better way to celebrate than with a party playlist featuring the greatest Black artists in music history? You can have great...