Hello everyone!
It is really surprising that I'm not writing a post about the closing of the London production of 'Love Never Dies' last Saturday. Those who follow me on twitter (@phantomima) know that I have been talking about it all the time. But I won't say anything else about it until my next week post, which will be very special, just wait and see.
This time I will talk about a song which is probably my favorite. I mean, of course, 'The Music of the Night' by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart.
The song was originally written for Sarah Brightman and it was called 'Young Enough to Fall in Love Again'. It had different lyrics and, presumably, talked about the relationship between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sarah.
Later, Andrew decided to use the song for his musical 'The Phantom of the Opera', adding the lyrics by Charles Hart. In the show, the Phantom sings it when he and Christine arrive to his lair and reveal his feelings for her and also the way he feels about music.
In my own interpretation, 'The Music of the Night' is about aesthetic values, more specifically, about the love for the music. It begins talking about the creative process of composing music (Night time sharpens, heightens each sensation, darkness stirs and wakes imagination), the way in which music in enjoyed (Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendour, grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender) how a musician has to give his/her own life to the music (Let your mind start a journey through a strange, new world, leave all thoughts of the life you knew before, let your soul take you where you long to be! Only then can you belong to me) how the musician transmits his/her music to others (Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in, to the power of the music that I write, the power of the music of the night) and how someone can inspire you to write music (You alone can make my song take flight, help me make the music of the night).
Another beautiful song written by Lord Andrew.
