Английская Википедия:Charles Hart (lyricist)

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox writer Charles Hart is an English lyricist, librettist and songwriter best known for his work on The Phantom of the Opera as well as a number of other musicals and operas for both stage and television.[1]

Life and works

Hart was born in London in 1961, the son of George Wilson Hart, an antiquarian book dealer, and Juliet Lavinia Hart (née Byam Shaw), actress.[2] His maternal grand-parents, Glen Byam Shaw and Angela Baddeley, were actively working in theatre and music throughout his childhood. Hart began writing lyrics as a child, some of which were "dark and contemplative – precociously murderous and quite, quite feisty".[3] He went to school in Maidenhead over the same period when his grandmother was starring in a London stage production of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. Hart went on to study music at Robinson College, Cambridge, followed by postgraduate studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in music composition in 1984.[4] Soon after leaving Guildhall, Hart came to the attention of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh, while they were judging the Vivian Ellis awards. Webber hired him as a lyricist for The Phantom of the Opera a year later, which opened in 1986.[5] In an interview published the day before the opening of Phantom, Hart said, "my ambition was to be an English Sondheim. Being a lyricist is the ideal job for a university-educated dilettante, because it uses up all the rubbish in your education."[6]

In 1990, during Stephen Sondheim’s tenure as “Professor of Musical Theatre” at Oxford, Hart linked up with like-minded writers George Stiles, Anthony Drewe and Howard Goodall, and in 1992, they founded the Mercury Workshop. The collaborative merged with the New Musical Alliance to become Mercury Musical Developments in 1999 and is today a registered charity whose patron is Stephen Sondheim.[7] Hart went on to collaborate with Howard Goodall on a number of successful musicals.

Selected works

Musical theatre

  • 1984 – Book and music for Moll Flanders– competition entry to Vivian Ellis Award
  • 1986 – Lyrics for Phantom of the Opera with music by Lloyd Webber
  • 1989 – Lyrics for Aspects of Love (co-written with Don Black) with music by Lloyd Webber
  • 1998 – Book and lyrics for The Kissing Dance with music by Howard Goodall[8]
  • 2001 – Book and lyrics for The Dreaming with music by Howard Goddall
  • 2015 – Book and lyrics for Bend It Like Beckham with music by Howard Goodall[9]

Operas

Songs

Film and Broadcast

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Awards

Hart has received two Ivor Novello Awards. He was nominated twice for the Tony Award, Best Original Score, for Aspects of Love (1990) and The Phantom of the Opera (1988).[17] He was also nominated for an Academy Award for writing the lyrics to a new song "Learn to be Lonely" which was sung by Minnie Driver over the final credits to the film version of The Phantom of the Opera.[18]

References

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External links

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  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  3. ↑ Morley, Sheridan, Interview with Charles Hart, The Times, 8 October 1986
  4. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  5. ↑ 5,0 5,1 Шаблон:Cite web
  6. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  7. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  8. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  9. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  10. ↑ Шаблон:IMDb name
  11. ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
  12. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  13. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  14. ↑ Seventeen sheet music for voice and piano, By Russell Watson, Charles Hart, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Virtual Sheet Music
  15. ↑ Berlin Associates, “Op. Cit.”
  16. ↑ IMDb, “Op. Cit.”
  17. ↑ "Charles Hart Broadway" Playbill, accessed 4 February 2020
  18. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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