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Leslie Stuart

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ComposerLyricist 1863–1928

Leslie Stuart (15 March 1863 – 27 March 1928) born Thomas Augustine Barrett was an English composer of Edwardian musical comedy, best known for the hit show Florodora (1899) and many popular songs. He began in Manchester as a church organist, for 14 years, and taught music while beginning to compose church music and secular songs in the late 1870s. In the 1880s, he began to promote and conduct orchestral and vocal concerts of popular and theatre music as "Mr. T. A. Barrett's Concerts". He began to focus his composition on music hall, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre, such as pantomimes and London shows touring through Manchester; a…

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Florodora

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  • So, from Leslie Stuart (composer of Florodora ) to Ivor Novello to Lloyd Webber, London has nothing to match the symmetry between Broadway and the national mood extending from the vulgar flag-waving cockiness of George M. Cohan, the Yankee Doodle Dandy, to post-Vietnam national malaise with Stephen Sondheim. For a European equivalent to A…ebooks/Steyn, Mark/Broadway Babies Say Goodnight_ Musicals Then and Now - Mark Steyn.txt

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