Queen - Love Of My Life (Singers Showcase: A Night at the Opera - The Music of Queen)

Students from the Singers Showcase: A Night at the Opera - The Music of Queen concert, perform one of Freddie Mercury’s most tender ballads, “Love of My Love” in studio. This arrangement was written by Li-Anne Kong and features Martín Guas on lead vocals. The production was part of the 2019 Signature Series at Berklee.

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“Love of My Life” (F. Mercury)
Arranger: Li-Anne Kong
Conductor: Utar Artun

Lead Vocals: Martín Guas
Background Vocals: Alex Maes, Kirlisa Broxton, Tim Abend
Percussion: Marshall Lilly
Piano: Li-Anne Kong
Acoustic Guitar: Joe Dougherty
Upright Bass: Jack Schwenke
Harp: Heather Monahan
Cello: Laufey Lin

Producer/Artistic Director: Maureen McMullan
Director: Tom Baskett
Musical Directors: Tsunenori (Lee) Abe and Maureen McMullan
Arranging Supervisor: Tsunenori (Lee) Abe
Background Vocal Coordinator: Nichelle Mungo
Associate Background Vocal Coordinator: Andrea Capozzoli
Technical Director: Loudon Stearns

Video recording credits
Recording and mixing engineer, audio editing: Rodrigo Martins
Assistant Recording Engineer: Nicole Gemmiti
Mastering: Jonathan Wyner

Video producer and editor: Isak Kotecki
Video set design: Jeannie Greeley
Video editor: Isak Kotecki
Cameras: Regina Crisosto, Sage Shriver-Blough, Valeria Peñaranda, Zakriya Bashirhill

Extract from the concert’s Miniature Libretto
written by Joe Bennett (forensic musicologist and lifelong Queen fan)
Resident Scholar, Professional Music

One of Queen’s most tender ballads, “Love of My Life” became a crowd singalong favorite, and for many shows Freddie would let the audience take on long sections. It was particularly well-loved in South American, where the live version was released as a single (our vocalist Martín Guas hails from La Planta, Argentina). The melody is instantly singable and deceptively simple, contrasting with the carefully concealed but brief key changes toward the end of each verse, and in the bridge’s lead up to “I still love you.” There are clear classical influences in the song - some people hear Chopin – so our version, arranged by Malaysian student Li-Anne Kong, is scored for a small chamber music ensemble of strings, harp, and piano, providing a tranquil and sensitive underscore for Guas’s tender lead vocal.

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