Leslie Stuart: Composer of Florodora

by Lamb,Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780415937474
• ISBN10: 0415937477
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Leslie Stuart (1864-1928) was a British songwriter best remembered as the composer of the hit show, Florodora. He began writing popular songs as a teenager, first for blackface and vaudeville performers, and eventually for more "legitimate" shows and revues. Florodora (1899), written in collaboration with London's most fashionable librettist, Owen Hall, was a musical-comedy sensation. Its combination of the traditional slow love ballads and waltzes with more rhythmic and long-lined numbers made it a worldwide success. He continued to compose through the first decade of the 20th century, laying the groundwork for the coming innovations in British and American musical theater.

Author Biography

Andrew Lamb has written about light music and musical theater for over thirty years. He contributes to Gramophone and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and has written many CD booklet notes. He lives in Croydon, England

Table of Contents

Series Introduction	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Irish Ancestry, Lancashire Boyhood	p. 1
Early Career in Manchester	p. 13
Expanding Horizons	p. 27
Concert Promoter and Song Composer	p. 41
Leslie Stuart: Popular Songwriter	p. 53
Eugene Stratton, and Musical Piracy	p. 65
Florodora	p. 79
From the West End to Broadway	p. 95
The Silver Slipper	p. 113
Across America	p. 127
The School Girl	p. 145
Fruits of Success	p. 159
The Belle of Mayfair	p. 171
Havana	p. 187
Captain Kidd and the Slim Princess	p. 205
Peggy, Bankruptcy, and Bubbles	p. 219
World War I, America, and Nina	p. 235
Death and Legacy	p. 253
Sources	p. 269
Compositions	p. 273
Index	p. 287
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