Tenor Saxophone & Piano - Early Intermediate - Digital Download
SKU: H0.220393-42180
By Andrew Lloyd Webber. Arranged by James M. Guthrie. Score,Solo Part. 12 pages. Published by jmsgu3 (H0.220393-42180).
As If We Never Said Goodbye arranged for various solo instruments and piano is suitable for performance in church, nightclub or recital stage.
Score: 10 pages, solo performance part (included in the download): 2 pages. Duration: 4:30.
Basic Information on "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Wikipedia:
Writers: Don Black Christopher Hampton Andrew Lloyd Webber, published 1993.
"As If We Never Said Goodbye" is a song from the musical Sunset Boulevard. It is written by Don Black, Christopher Hampton (with additional lyrics by Amy Powers), and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Ben Rimalower on Playbill calls it Andrew Lloyd Webber's greatest song.[1]
In Sunset Boulevard, the main character, Norma Desmond, reveals her longing to return to the spotlight of fame.[2]
The song has also been performed by Barbra Streisand, and is featured on her album Back to Broadway, as well as the live albums The Concert and Back to Brooklyn.
Elaine Paige, who starred in the original London and Broadway productions of Sunset Boulevard, also recorded the song for her album Encore.
Chris Colfer (as Kurt Hummel) sings the song on the Glee Season 2 episode "Born This Way".
1. "Unexpected Songs: Top Ten Compositions By Andrew Lloyd Webber | Playbill". Playbill. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
2. Everett, Nicholas; Everett, William A. & Laird, Paul R. (2002). The Cambridge Companion to the Musical. Cambridge University Press. p. 258.
Basic Information on Andrew Lloyd Webber from Wikipedia:
"Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. Several of his songs have been widely recorded and were hits outside of their parent musicals, notably "The Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar, "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" and "You Must Love Me" from Evita, "Any Dream Will Do" from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and "Memory" from Cats. In 2001 the New York Times referred to him as "the most commercially successful composer in history". Ranked the "fifth most powerful person in British culture" by The Telegraph in 2008, the lyricist Don Black stated "Andrew more or less single-handedly reinvented the musical."
He has received a number of awards, including a knighthood in 1992, followed by a peerage from Queen Elizabeth II for services to Music, seven Tonys, three Grammys (as well as the Grammy Legend Award), an Academy Award, fourteen Ivor Novello Awards, seven Olivier Awards, a Golden Globe, a Brit Award, the 2006 Kennedy Center Honors, and the 2008 Classic Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is an inductee into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, and is a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors.
His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London. Producers in several parts of the UK have staged productions, including national tours, of the Lloyd Webber musicals under licence from the Really Useful Group. Lloyd Webber is also the president of the Arts Educational Schools London, a performing arts school located in Chiswick, West London. He is involved in a number of charitable activities, including the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Nordoff Robbins, Prostate Cancer UK and War Child. In 1992 he set up the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation which supports the arts, culture and heritage in the UK."
Lyrics to "As If We Never Said Goodbye:"
Don't know why I'm frightened
I know my way around here
The cardboard trees, the painted scenes, the sound here
Yes a world to rediscover
But I'm not in any hurry
And I need a moment
The whispered conversations in overcrowded hallways
The atmosphere as thrilling here as always
Feel the early morning madness
Feel the magic in the making
Why everything's as if we never said goodbye
I've spent so many mornings
Just trying to resist you
I'm trembling now
You can't know how I've missed you
Missed the fairy-tail adventures
In this ever-spinning playground
We were young together
I'm coming out of make-up
The lights already burning
Not long until the camera's will start turning
And the early morning madness
And the magic in the making
Yes, everything is as if we never said goodbye
I don't want to be alone that's all in the past
This world's waited long enough
I've come home at last
And this time will be bigger
And brighter than we knew it
So watch me fly, we all know I can do it
Could I stop my hand from shaking?
Has there ever been a moment with so much to live for?
The whispered conversations in overcrowded hallways
So much to say not just today but always
We'll have early morning madness
We'll have magic in the making
Yes, everything is as if we never said goodbye
Oh, please don't ever ever make me say goodbye