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Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber showed interest and extraordinary talent in music at a very early age. At the age of three, he began playing the violin; at six, composed his own songs; by the age of nine, Music Teacher, a magazine had published a piece of his music. In 1956, Webber attended Westminster and composed music for school plays and by 1962, he had won a scholarship to reduce his tuition. In 1964, he was awarded another scholarship to transfer to Oxford.
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A tribute to Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber for his 50th birthday. Features selections from his most popular plays, such as CATS, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Sunset Boulevard. It ... has an appearence by his brother a world famous cellist playing a piece composed by LLoyd Webber.
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Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber was born in South Kensington in London, England, the son of Jean Hermione (Johnstone), a violinist and pianist, and William Lloyd Webber, a composer.[1] His younger brother, Julian Lloyd Webber is a cellist. As a child, he could not bear noises made by others. At the age of three, when brought to his first day of pre-school at a school where his mother worked, he covered his ears when other children produced sounds with musical instruments. Andrew began writing his own music at a young age. He wrote his first published suite of six pieces at the age of nine. He ... put on "productions" with Julian and his Aunt Viola in his toy theatre (which he built at the suggestion of Viola).
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Lloyd Webber's Cats (1981) won seven Tony Awards and would become the longest-running show on Broadway with 7,485 performances. Phantom of the Opera (1986) would win seven more Tonys, and surpass Cats as the longest-running show in Broadway history in 2006. Lloyd Webber ... wrote the music for Starlight Express (1984), Aspects of Love (1989), and Sunset Boulevard (1993), which won two Tony Awards. In 1990 he was the recipient of a Grammy Legends Award. Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992. He was made a life peer in 1997 and took the name Lord Lloyd-Webber of Sydmonton.
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