Sings the Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber American Songbook, but unlike Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and many other artists, she had never recorded a complete album of songs by one composer. The songs on the album are all taken from the popular musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber, that he wrote with various lyricists. The oldest song found on the album is from the 1971 musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" which originally opened on Broadway in October of that year. Bringing it up to date the album also includes two songs from "Sunset Boulevard" which had recently premiered on July 12, 1993 in London's West End. Four songs had
William Lloyd Webber composers as Sergei Rachmaninov, Jean Sibelius and César Franck, and he became increasingly convinced that his own music was 'out of step' with the prevailing climate of the time. Rather than compromise his style, he turned to the academic side of British musical life - teaching at the Royal College of Music, directing the choir at Central Hall, Westminster, and, in 1964, accepting the Directorship of the London College of Music, a post which he held until his death in 1982. Partsongs William Lloyd Webber William Southcombe Lloyd Webber CBE (11 March 1914 – 29 October 1982) was an English