Yet the 38 - year - old
British composer of such blockbuster
musicals as Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita and Cats, who has written such enormously popular melodies as «I Don't Know How to Love Him,» «Don't Cry for Me, Argentina» and «Memories,» demonstrated in the Requiem that he can also write beautiful serious music in the English choral
tradition — while still holding on to his more rock - inspired identity.