When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?
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Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.
I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles.
Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.
During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema.
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.
Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.
Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as 'A Hard Day's Night'?
The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.