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Loewe and retired
As of 2009 apart from Marciano only Michael Loewe, Pichit Sitbangprachan, Harry Simon, Sven Ottke and Joe Calzaghe retired with a perfect record containing neither defeats nor draws.

Loewe and Palm
Loewe then decided to retire to Palm Springs, California, not writing anything until he was approached by Lerner to augment the Gigi film score with additional tunes for a 1973 stage adaptation, which won him his second Tony, this time for Best Original Score.
He has received a range of honors and awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award in film Composition from the National Board of Review, the Frederick Loewe Award in 2003 at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, ASCAP ’ s Henry Mancini Award for Lifetime Achievement, and BMI's Richard Kirk Award for lifetime achievement in 1996.

Loewe and while
Lerner was hospitalized with bleeding ulcers while Loewe continued to have heart troubles.

Loewe and Lerner
This was the same team who would later join with Lerner and Loewe to create Gigi.
In 1956, Lerner and Loewe unveiled My Fair Lady.
In 1973, Lerner coaxed Fritz Loewe out of retirement to augment the Gigi score for a musical stage adaptation.
* Lerner and Loewe
It lends its name to the 1960 musical Camelot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, which is based on T. H. White's literary version of the legend, The Once and Future King.
On 27 April 2009, Caron traveled to New York as an honored guest at a tribute to Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe at the Paley Center for Media.
Paint Your Wagon is a Broadway musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
" Rock Island " from Meridith Wilson's " The Music Man " is wholly spoken by an ensemble of travelling salesmen, as are most of the numbers for British actor Rex Harrison in the 1964 Lerner and Loewe musical My Fair Lady.
This is the only musical adaptation authorized by Bradbury himself, who turned down Lerner and Loewe in the 1960s when they asked his permission to make a musical based on the novel.
Seven years later, a musical film version with a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and a score by Lerner and Frederick Loewe won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Lerner and Loewe adapted the film for a 1973 stage musical that proved to be unsuccessful.
Burton appeared on Broadway, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Time Remembered ( 1958 ) and winning the award for playing King Arthur in the musical Camelot ( 1960 ), directed by Moss Hart and written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.
When Shaw heard, in 1921, that Franz Lehár wanted to set his play Pygmalion to music, he sent word to Vienna that Lehár be instructed that he could not touch Pygmalion without infringing Shaw's copyright and that Shaw had " no intention of allowing the history of The Chocolate Soldier to be repeated "( only after Shaw's death was Pygmalion eventually adapted by Lerner and Loewe as My Fair Lady ).
The production starred Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet. The trio appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and sang a few numbers from the musical, along with an appearance by Lerner and Loewe.
The Musical Worlds of Lerner and Loewe, U of Nebraska Press, ISBN 0-8032-8040-8
By far his biggest hit was the musical My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
The last show Hart directed was the Lerner and Loewe musical Camelot ( 1960 ).
Brigadoon is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
Lyricist and book writer Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe had previously collaborated on three musicals ; the first, Life of the Party, closed during pre-Broadway tryouts, and the second and third, What's Up?
Though Lerner and Loewe originally took Brigadoon to producer Billy Rose, Cheryl Crawford was the producer who actually brought Brigadoon to Broadway.
( In 1956, after Howard's death, Lerner and Loewe set Pygmalion to music in My Fair Lady.

Loewe and went
As discussed in Lerner's 1978 book, The Street Where I Live, Frederick Loewe, who had no interest in the project, agreed to write music, with the understanding that if things went badly, it would be his last score.

Loewe and series
RCA Victor made several studio cast recording albums as well, including a Lerner and Loewe series with Jan Peerce, Jane Powell, and Robert Merrill, as well as a 1963 album of excerpts from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, with its 1952 revival leads, Leontyne Price and William Warfield, but a different supporting cast.

Loewe and musicals
* June 10 – Frederick Loewe, composer of musicals ( d. 1988 )
Musicals continued to dominate at the theatre in the post-World War II period, including transfers of the successful Broadway productions Follow the Girls ( 1945 ; 572 performances ) and the Lerner and Loewe musicals Brigadoon ( 1949 ; 685 performances ) and Paint Your Wagon ( 1953 ; 478 performances ).

Loewe and some
In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film.
Loewe wrote five operas, of which only one, Die drei Wünsche, was performed at Berlin in 1834, without much success ; seventeen oratorios, many of them for male voices unaccompanied, or with short instrumental interludes only ; choral ballads, cantatas, three string quartets ( his opus 24 ), and a pianoforte trio ; a work for clarinet and piano, published posthumously ; and some piano solos.
However, Sherman had trouble in getting permission to record for profit from some of the well-known composers and lyricists, who did not tolerate parodies or satires of their melodies and lyrics, including Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, George and Ira Gershwin, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Loewe, as well as the estates of Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Kurt Weill, and Bertolt Brecht, which prevented him from releasing parodies or satires of their songs.
Lerner and Loewe were the team of lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe, known primarily for the music and lyrics of some of Broadway's most successful musical shows, including My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Brigadoon.
The edition has been continued by some of his pupils -- Goetz, Loewe, and others.

Loewe and with
The Lerner-Loewe partnership cracked under the stress of producing the Arthurian Camelot in 1960, with Loewe resisting Lerner's desire to direct as well as write when original director Moss Hart suffered a heart attack in the last few months of rehearsals, and would die shortly after the show's premiere.
It was also falsely reported that Ms. Musseli sent over US $ 500, 000 to Switzerland, but that was gossip given credence by newspaper items claiming that Loewe had warned his partner to not get romantically involved with a lawyer.
* Life of the Party ( 1942 ), with Frederick Loewe
( 1943 ), with Frederick Loewe
* The Day Before Spring ( 1945 ), with Frederick Loewe
* Brigadoon ( 1947 ), with Frederick Loewe
* My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), with Frederick Loewe
* Camelot ( 1960 ), with Frederick Loewe
* Gigi ( 1973 ), based on the 1958 film of the same name, with Frederick Loewe
The production was troubled, with both Loewe and Hart falling ill, numerous revisions upsetting the schedule and the actors, and the pressure building due to great expectations and huge advance sales.
In 1924, his father received an offer to appear in New York City, and Loewe traveled there with him, determined to write for Broadway.
David P. Currie has remarked that the Court's decision in Adair is difficult to square with two of its other decisions that same year: Damselle Howard v. Illinois Central Railroad Company, in which the Court held that it was within Congress ' power to abrogate the fellow-servant rule ( which absolves an employer of liability for injury to a worker resulting from the negligence of a co-worker ) for railway employees injured in interstate commerce ; and Loewe v. Lawlor, in which it held that Congress could prevent union members from boycotting goods shipped from one state to another.

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