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The splendidly incongruous 20 th -century musical resurrection of Victor Hugo makes me conclude that, when composers set a poet's work to music, the best thing to do is, in the case of a fiasco like Disney's Hunchback , to stay away completely, and in the case of a show like Les Mis , to enjoy the story without paying any attention to the literary art.
Last year Disney came out with an animated movie musical for children called The Hunchback of Notre Dame , based on Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris . This year, Hyperion Records has issued a CD, Songs by Camille Saint-Saëns, for piano and voice, with 11 of the 27 songs from poems by Hugo.
. But there's no point in looking for Hugo in any of that--even if it's worth noting that Disney's single inspiration of any worth in Hunchback , the talking stone statues, was originally conceived by Hugo himself, in his epic poem La Légende des Siècles .
The songs in Disney's Hunchback , by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, are a mishmash of the ersatz--sometimes imitating the old-fashioned Broadway cleverness of George Gershwin's brother Ira, the lyricist (as in Hunchback 's "A Guy Like You," sung by stone gargoyles, which you can listen to briefly by clicking , though I don't advise it), other times imitating the modern Broadway cleverness of Les Mis (as in Hunchback 's opening number, which you can also listen to with a click , though why?)
Three genes ( engrailed, hunchback, brinker ) with well-described expression patterns were included in each 96-well plate and used to monitor hybridization efficiency.
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