Lloyd Webber gets Hungary
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Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been given a high honour by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany.
The Phantom of the Opera, Evita
and Cats composer was given the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit for
supporting Hungarian culture.
"I have always been very
aware of Hungarian music - Bartok and Kodaly were very much a part of my early
childhood," Lloyd Webber said.
He was in the capital
Mr Gyurcsany said: "One just
cannot understand the culture of our days without knowing the musicals of
Lloyd-Webber.
"His music binds people who
live in faraway places, it bonds the
The composer said Sunday's
performance of The Beautiful Game was "one of the finest I have ever seen
of anything to do with me".