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Pages in category "Musicals based on poems" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.It is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot.The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make the "Jellicle choice" by deciding which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.
Sibelius composed several tone poems throughout his career, often making use of stories and motifs from the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala. Early in his career he also wrote works on national and historical subjects. Finlandia; Kullervo, Op. 7, symphonic poem based on the story of Kullervo in Finnish mythology; En saga, Op. 9; Karelia ...
Ecomusicology considers aspects of environmental sustainability within music production and performance. For example, the relationship between a demand for a certain musical instrument as well as the costs and impacts of its production, has been an area of interest for Ecomusicologists investigating the sustainability of the consumption and production of music or musical instruments. [13]
Environmentalism has been a theme and cultural trend in popular music. Ecomusicologists (musicologists and ethnomusicologists focusing on music and environmental issues) and music educators are increasingly emphasizing the intersections of music and nature, and the role of music in ecological activism.
Musicals based on poems (1 C, 21 P) Operas based on the Aeneid (21 P) Musical settings of poems by author (10 C, 1 P) Songs based on poems (126 P) D.
Musical settings of poems by William Shakespeare (9 P) Ballets based on works by William Shakespeare (2 C, 4 P) Plays and musicals based on works by William Shakespeare (17 C, 17 P)
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) is a collection of whimsical light poems by T. S. Eliot about feline psychology and sociology, published by Faber and Faber. It serves as the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical Cats. Eliot wrote the poems in the 1930s and included them, under his assumed name "Old Possum", in letters to his ...