My Fair Lady

Musicals / My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady is a musical stage play based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story centres around Henry Higgins,  a conceited language professor (phoneticist) who teaches Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl from the gutter who takes speech lessons from the professor so that she may pass and behave like a lady. 

Adapted by Ian Dalrymple, the play was later remade as My Fair Lady, which won several Oscars. Stars Oscar-winning actors Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. (Be aware: The video contains profanity.)

Marrying Mozart - A Novel

Marrying Mozart: A Novel by Stephanie Cowell

(Released by Viking Penguin)


Marrying Mozart is a novel about the life and loves of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a family of four beautiful musical sisters.

Marrying Mozart: A Novel

The lives of the four Weber sisters are changed by the arrival of twenty-one-year-old Wolfgang Mozart, a young man struggling to find his place in the eighteenth-century musical world. The sisters will inspire him with their singing; he will write great music for them (including the "Queen of the Night") and fall in love with at least two of them, but the one he eventually marries is not the one he first loves.

This is Stephanie Cowell's fourth published novel. She is an American Book Award winner and a lyric coloratura soprano. The novel will be translated into German and Italian.

For more information on the novel and the author, visit her website at  www.StephanieCowell.com

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