Seasons of Love

"Seasons of Love" is a song from the Broadway musical Rent, written and composed by Jonathan Larson. The song starts with an ostinato piano motif, which provides the harmonic framework for the cast to sing "Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes" (the number of minutes in a normal calendar year). The main instruments used throughout the song are piano, vocals, guitar, organ, bass and drums.

The song is performed by the entire cast in the musical and in the 2005 film of the same name. The lyrics ask what the proper way is to quantify the value of a year in human life, concluding in the chorus that the most effective means is to "measure in love". Since four of the lead characters either have HIV or AIDS, the song is often associated with World AIDS Day and AIDS awareness month.

Songwriter

Jonathan Larson actually intended for Seasons of Love to be performed symbolically as a song at Angel's funeral. When Larson died the night before the preview opening of the show, the cast sang it at the beginning to pay their respects to the composer. It is performed at the beginning of the second act, referencing recent past events or the events to come. The song is heard twice throughout the second act (once as the opener, before A Happy New Year and the reprise is heard after "Take Me Or Leave Me," before "Without You") before hearing it in its last incarnation as background to I'll Cover You: Reprise and Angel's eulogy.

Seasons of Love (TV series)

Seasons of Love is a Filipino daily drama anthology broadcast by GMA Network. The show was premiered last October 6, 2014 on the network's Telebabad early primetime block every Monday-Thursday replacing My BFF and aired worldwide via GMA Pinoy TV. The show ended on October 30, 2014 on its 4-week run with total of 16 episodes overall.

About

Seasons of Love is a weekly anthology on weeknight primetime, Seasons of Love proves that one can be at the right place and at the right time to fall in love. Show features a special 4-part story per week, totaling to 4 tales of love, all made sweeter while set against breathtaking landscapes and shot within charming towns in the Philippines. Each story showcases individuals who will become instrumental in presenting the many facets of love, all unique yet all romantic. The show cinematically captures the momentous events in the characters’ lives, making finding true love at the right place and at the right time so thrilling.

Seasons of Love (album)

Seasons of Love is the third album by Christian rock band Mad at the World. Released in 1990, it was their highest charting album.

History

Beginning with their third disc, Seasons of Love, and in order to have a sound more amiable for live performances, the band's musical style shifted away from synthpop toward hard rock. Seasons of Love, released in 1990 and the first disc to feature Brent Gordon on guitar, was the band's highest charting album. The band's switch to hard rock was jarring for some people. It features some very aggressive and energetic songs, including "Promised Land" and "So Insane", both of which deal with drug abuse. The album in general had the band being compared to The Cult, Danzig and The Cure.

This album was reissued by KMG Records in 1999 on a "two-for-one" disc with Mad at the World.

Track listing

All songs written by Roger Rose, except "Marshmallow Land" written by Randy Rose.

Buddy Montgomery

Charles "Buddy" Montgomery (January 30, 1930, Indianapolis, Indiana – May 14, 2009) was an American jazz vibraphonist and pianist. He was the younger brother of Wes and Monk Montgomery. He and brother Monk formed The Mastersounds in the late 1950s and produced ten recordings. When The Mastersounds disbanded, Monk and Buddy joined their brother Wes on a number of Montgomery Brothers recordings, which were arranged by Buddy. They toured together in 1968, and it was in the middle of that tour that Wes died. Buddy continued to compose, arrange, perform, produce, teach and record, producing nine recordings as a leader.

Biography

Buddy first played professionally in 1948; in 1949 he played with Big Joe Turner and soon afterwards with Slide Hampton. After a period in the Army, where he had his own quartet, he joined The Mastersounds as a vibraphonist with his brother Monk, pianist Richie Crabtree and drummer Benny Barth in 1957. He led the "Montgomery-Johnson Quintet" with saxophonist Alonzo "Pookie" Johnson from 1955 to 1957. His earliest sessions as a leader are from the late 1950s. He played briefly with Miles Davis in 1960. After Wes Montgomery’s death in 1968, Buddy became active as a jazz educator and advocate. He founded organizations in Milwaukee, where he lived from 1969 to 1982; and Oakland, California, where he lived for most of the 1980s, that offered jazz classes and presented free concerts.