Our Kind of Love (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) Our Kind of Love (Andrew Lloyd Webber song) Our Kind of Love is a ballad from the 2000 musical "The Beautiful Game" by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The lyrics were written by Ben Elton. Lloyd Webber used a Giacomo Puccini aria as the melody for this song, which he had previously used for the song "The Heart is Slow to Learn" in the 1990s, part of an intended sequel to the Webber musical "Phantom of the Opera". The track was recorded by Kiri Te Kanawa in 1998. She performed it live the same year, as part of a concert to celebrate
Andrew Lloyd Webber UK touring production, which transferred to New Zealand later in 2009. The show also runs full-time in a custom-built theatre in Bochum, Germany, where it has been running since 1988. Lloyd Webber wrote a Requiem Mass dedicated to his father, William, who had died in 1982. It premiered at St. Thomas Church in New York on 24 February 1985. Church music had been a part of the composer's upbringing and the composition was inspired by an article he had read about the plight of Cambodian orphans. Lloyd Webber had on a number of occasions written sacred music for the annual