Daryl,
DS>WD> I think it should be Andrew Lloyd Weber ...
DS> A few years ago, he was working on a new item for a musical score with
DS> his computer and electronic keyboard. Well, he had to step away from the
DS> computer for a bit, and the saying "Kitten On The Keys" took on a whole
DS> new meaning. Kitty came in, jumped on the keyboard, and with a few paw
DS> strokes, completely deleted the large project that he was working on.
I am am Andrew Lloyd Weber afficionado ... I think he's a musical genius just
as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms etc were ... I'm stopping short for Mozart, that's
another category.
When they had the 25th anniversary performance of Phantom of the Opera in
London's Royal Albert Hall, my daughter and I had tickets costing hundreds of
pounds each ... and well worth it. We went to Broadway to watch his work,
Hamburg, other places. Even contemplated Melbourne ... but the plane tickets
were too expensive.
Anyway, the story about ALW's cat is authentic, she destroyed the entire score
of "Love Never Dies" which was stored, without backup somewhere, on his
Clavinova. That's how we know he doesn't score on paper anymore.
So Yamaha engineers were flown in and his instrument was disassembled to see
what traces might be left in the chips and a substantial amount was
recuperated. He still had to rewrite several portions, bridges etc ... There
was no orchestral scoring involved.
"Love Never Dies" had a short carreer, 6 months in London, 6 months in
Melbourne and Brisbane, 1 month in Copenhagen and 1 month in Hamburg. The
public loved it, the critics destroyed it and the financial backers withdrew
fearing for their investment. I saw it in London and Hamburg, with my daughter,
of course ... a masterpiece, thanks to the cat.
With his latest piece "Cinderella" the cat was nowhere near and he daily backed
up his work.
Some trivia about data-retrieval: little is it known that about 80% of all data
on the computer discs that went down when the WTC towers collapsed eventually
was recovered ... and that was "a lot".
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