Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

From the late 1980s, Andersson had worked on an idea for an epic Swedish language musical based on his affection for traditional folk music, and in October 1995, Kristina från Duvemåla premiered in Sweden.

* The novel series The Emigrants and the musical Kristina från Duvemåla tells the story of a family of Swedish emigrants who journey to Minnesota in 1850.

ABBA-members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus have been very successful in musical theatre, with their international hit Mamma Mia !, as well as Chess, and Kristina från Duvemåla, which was a huge success in Sweden.

Kretzmer ’ s most recent musical project is Kristina, based on Vilhelm Moberg ’ s epic suite of novels about Swedish emigrants to Minnesota in the 19th century.

* Kristina från Duvemåla, a musical by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus

Watson was one of the principal singers ( in the role of Karl-Oskar ) in the English world premiere of the Swedish musical Kristina från Duvemåla ( Kristina from Duvemåla ) by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus at Carnegie Hall in New York on 23 and 24 September 2009.

The album is a collection of folk melodies from Finland and Sweden, also including a medley from the musical Kristina från Duvemåla by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA.

On 11 June 2009, it was announced that Helen would perform in the English version of Kristina från Duvemåla ( outside Sweden called Kristina ) in a concert version of the musical at Carnegie Hall, New York, on 23 and 24 September 2009.

Hit recordings include " Du måste finnas " (" You Have to Be There ") from the symphonic musical Kristina från Duvemåla ( Kristina ), " Vår sista dans " (" If this is Our Last Dance ") with Benny Andersson's Orkester, " Gabriellas sång " ( from film Så som i himmelen aka As It Is In Heaven ), " Jag vet vad han vill " ( aka " I Know Him So Well ") from musical Chess, " Det är vi ändå " ( with Tommy Körberg and Benny Anderssons Orkester ), and " Du är min man " (" You Are My Man ") with Benny Anderssons Orkester, among others.

Kristina från Duvemåla (" Kristina from Duvemåla ") is a Swedish musical written by former ABBA members Björn Ulvaeus ( lyrics ) and Benny Andersson ( music ), based on a series of four novels by Swedish author Vilhelm Moberg detailing a family's poverty-driven migration from Sweden to America in the mid-19th century: The Emigrants, Unto a Good Land, The Settlers, and The Last Letter Home.

A few years later, however, Dagens Nyheter reviewer Marcus Boldemann wrote that " Kristina från Duvemåla is not an A-class musical work ".

Counting all three runs, which were almost continuous, interrupted only by summer vacations and hiatuses due to the production's physical moving, Kristina från Duvemåla ran for nearly four years ( more than 650 performances in total ), making it the second longest running musical in Swedish history.

The English-language premiere of the musical, in a concert version under the name " Kristina: A Concert Event ", took place at Carnegie Hall on September 23 and 24, 2009 with Helen Sjöholm as Kristina, Russell Watson as Karl Oskar, Louise Pitre as Ulrika and Kevin Odekirk as Robert.

Swedish Idol contestant, Alice Hagenbrant covered the song which appeared in Det bästa från Idol, an album released from the musical competition.

Though the anthem of the Church of England is analogous to the motet of the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches, both being written for a trained choir and not for the congregation, it is as a musical form essentially English in its origin and development.

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The oldest musical tradition which fits under the label of Celtic fusion originated in the rural American south in the early colonial period and incorporated Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, English, and African influences.

* In Italian musical terms used in English, it means " with " ( con means " with " in both Italian and Spanish as the word derives from Latin )

The musical style was emphasized in many of the episode titles, which were in English, such as: " Asteroid Blues ", " Honky Tonk Woman ", " Ballad of Fallen Angels ", " Heavy Metal Queen ", " Jamming With Edward ", " Jupiter Jazz " and " Mushroom Samba ".

David Thomas " Davy " Jones ( 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012 ) was an English recording artist, actor, and businessman, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name.

Its mixture of political satire and grand opera parody mimicked Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and La belle Hélène, which ( in translation ) then dominated the English musical stage.

The result was a new crispness and polish in the English musical theatre.

The three actors play their musical instruments and speak with mock English accents throughout the film.

In 1779 at age 16 he emigrated to London, where he learned English while working for his brother, George Astor, manufacturing musical instruments.

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Schaeffer's use of the word jeu, from the verb jouer, carries the same double meaning as the English verb play: ' to enjoy oneself by interacting with one's surroundings ', as well as ' to operate a musical instrument ' ( Dack 2002 ).

* 1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English musical theatre composer

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Opera ( English plural: operas ; Italian plural: opere ) is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text ( called a libretto ) and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting.

It was part of the African American dialect of English in the 1960s meaning " to converse ", and very soon after that in its present usage as a term denoting the musical style.

The re-edited version put a new English narration by Frederic March and musical score onto a shorter edit of the existing film.

The brief but intense flowering of the musical madrigal in England, mostly from 1588 to 1627, along with the composers who produced them, is known as the English Madrigal School.

Later it was the subject of a 1959 ballet by English composer Sir Malcolm Arnold and, in 1979, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim.

A brand new English musical adaptation of Mort was presented in Guildford, Surrey, UK in August 2008 by Youth Music Theatre: UK.

An alternative spelling in English is ' vocal chords ', possibly due to the musical connotations or to confusion with the geometrical definition of the word " chord ".

Rickman has also been featured in several musical works – most notably in a song composed by the English songwriter Adam Leonard entitled " Not Alan Rickman ".

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The instrument became popular in several musical traditions namely ; English, Scottish, Irish and American traditional music.

Holding the title of " author " over any " literary, dramatic, musical, artistic, certain other intellectual works " give rights to this person, the owner of the copyright, exclusive right to do or authorize any production or distribution of their work.

* Company ( song ), the title song from the Broadway musical, Company

In 1953, Day appeared as the title character in the comedic western-themed musical, Calamity Jane, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song for " Secret Love " ( her recording of which became her fourth U. S. No. 1 recording ).

In 1976, he played the role of Mister Geppetto in a television musical adaptation of Pinocchio with Sandy Duncan in the title role.

Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song " Stay Gold ", which was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder.

The material they recorded was released in 1956 on an album whose title, Birth of the Cool, gave its name to the " cool jazz " movement that developed at the same time and partly shared the musical direction begun by Davis ' group.

In addition to the title of the collection, which translates as " song " or " hymns " from both Hebrew and Greek, superscriptions ( or headings ) in many of the Psalms provide musical references and some direction, in some cases even references to melodies that would have been well known by early congregations ; however, no musical notation has survived.

The title of the work is ironic, nodding toward " overture " as a musical form, noting that the initiatives of the Western powers for commercial exploitation of the Pacific nation were anything but " pacific " overtures.

Semi-spoken music has long been especially popular in British entertainment, and such examples as David Croft's theme to the 1970s ' sitcom Are You Being Served ?, the 1979 song Mickey as performed by Toni Basil in 1982, and the 1984 title song, " One Night in Bangkok " for the musical Chess have elements indistinguishable from modern rap.

His 1999 musical composition " Energy Flow ", also known as the alternative title of the single disc Ura BTTB, was the first number-one instrumental single in Japan's Oricon charts history.

* Subtitle ( titling ), an explanatory or alternate title of a book, play, film, musical work, etc., in addition to its main title

* Sweeney Todd Musical, a 2009 musical rendition by the Repertory Philippines group, starring Audie Gemora in the title role, and Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo as Mrs. Lovett.

* March 31 – Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, the team's only musical written especially for television, is telecast live and in color by CBS, starring Julie Andrews in the title role.

In the musical Spring Awakening, based on the play of the same title by Frank Wedekind, schoolboys study the Latin text, and the first verse of Book 1 is incorporated into the number " All That's Known ".

Among his last musical activities was his championship of the soprano Magda Olivero ( 1910 -), whose performances in the title role of Adriana Lecouvreur he especially admired.

The title of the 1955 musical Damn Yankees refers specifically to the New York Yankees baseball team but also echoes the older cultural term.

It was not until the publication of Rameau's ' Traité de l ' harmonie ' ( Treatise on Harmony ) in 1722 that any text discussing musical practice made use of the term in the title, though that work is not the earliest record of theoretical discussion of the topic.

In December 1968, Hoffman returned to Broadway to appear in the title role of Murray Schisgal and John Sebastian's musical Jimmy Shine.

It was directed by Victor Heerman and adapted from a successful 1928 Broadway musical of the same title by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, also starring the Marx Brothers and Margaret Dumont.

The word coda, meaning a passage that ends a musical piece following the main body, was therefore chosen as a title.

In this section, with the exception of productions by the Ballets Russes ( which will be listed alphabetically by title ) and of musical settings of Pierrot lunaire ( which will be discussed under a separate heading ), all works are identified by artist ; all artists are grouped by nationality, then listed alphabetically.

In 2010 it was re-written as a conventional musical, with the new title Notre Dame.

She returned to Broadway in 1997, taking over the title role in the musical Victor / Victoria, replacing Julie Andrews.