Les Misérables: When the Music Comes Home
We’ve heard this before.
Near the end of Les Misérables, Javert confronts an act of mercy that shatters everything he believes about justice—and suddenly the music takes us somewhere strangely familiar.
That musical echo is no accident.
In this follow-up to “Les Misérables: From Orson Welles to Broadway,” we listen more closely to Claude-Michel Schönberg’s remarkable score: the recurring melodies that connect Valjean and Javert, the different forms of love expressed by Fantine, Éponine, Marius and Cosette, the extraordinary convergence of One Day More, and the music that returns as Valjean’s…
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