Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Posted by Deborah on 16 Feb, 2010 at 02:45 [ 1 comments ]
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Talk about going MIA. Sorry all, I have been completely horrible with keeping up to date (I figure one post every eight months is a pretty poor showing any way you look at it). But anyway, since I've posted stuff from Wicked, I thought it only f... » Read more

From:Wizard of Oz, The (more details)
Music by:Harold Arlen
Words by:E. Y. Harburg

I'm Not That Girl

Posted by Deborah on 21 Jun, 2009 at 23:43 [ 2 comments ]
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After a three-and-a-half month hiatus due to a hectic schedule and a lack of a decent microphone, I've bought a digital piano and I'm back to posting some more piano instrumental tracks! Since one of my favorite musicals ever, Wicked, is due to o... » Read more

From:Wicked (more details)
Music by:Stephen Schwartz
Words by:Stephen Schwartz

Anthem

Posted by Deborah on 21 Feb, 2009 at 18:40 [ 1 comments ]
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This is one of my favourite songs for the male voice. There's something incredibly bittersweet and poignant in this song that makes it so powerful and uplifting. This is sung by the Russian chess player at the end of Act I to explain his defecti... » Read more

From:Chess (more details)
Music by:Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus
Words by:Tim Rice

Castle on a Cloud

Posted by Deborah on 15 Feb, 2009 at 04:45 [ 2 comments ]
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Another short, sad song. This is sung by Young Cosette as she reflects on the daily misery she has known all her life working for the money-grubbing Thénardier family. Her father abandoned her mother, Fantine, when he found out she was pregnant.... » Read more

From:Les Miserables (more details)
Music by:Claude-Michel Schönberg
Words by:Herbert Kretzmer

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

Posted by Deborah on 15 Feb, 2009 at 03:43 [ 1 comments ]
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This is a beautifully sad song, sung by the character Christine Daaé from "The Phantom of the Opera". Christine has been persuaded by her fiance, Raoul, to sing in the Phantom's opera as bait in Raoul's plan to stop the Phantom for once and for a... » Read more

From:The Phantom of the Opera (more details)
Music by:Andrew Lloyd Webber
Words by:Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe