Andrew Lloyd Webber nomination for Best Original Song: "Learn to Be Lonely" from the 2004 motion picture "The Phantom of the Opera" . Plus one nomination for Best Original Song: "Learn to Be Lonely" from the 2004 motion picture "The Phantom of the Opera". "Note: Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber unless otherwise noted. There have been a number of film adaptations of the Lloyd Webber musicals. "Jesus Christ Superstar" (1973) was directed by Norman Jewison; "Evita" (1996) was directed by Alan Parker; and "The Phantom of the Opera" (2004) was directed by Joel Schumacher and co-produced by Lloyd Webber. "Cats", "Joseph and
Julian Lloyd Webber "Front Row" and "The World Tonight". In May 2009, Lloyd Webber was elected President of the Elgar Society in succession to Sir Adrian Boult, Lord Menuhin, and Richard Hickox. In September 2014, the charity Live Music Now announced Lloyd Webber as its next public spokesman. On 28 April 2014, he announced his retirement from public performance as a cellist because of a herniated disc in his neck. His final public performance as a cellist was on 2 May 2014 at the Festival Theatre, Malvern, with the English Chamber Orchestra when he played the Barjansky Stradivarius cello (dated c. 1690) which