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“How Does a Moment Last Forever” is sung by Maurice, Belle’s father, while he is building a music box of their old home in Paris. The song is a new addition to the film, not in the animated version or Broadway show.
[MAURICE]
How does a moment last forever?
How can a story never die?
It is love we must hold onto
Never easy, but we try
Sometimes our happiness is captured
Somehow, a time and place stand still
Love lives on inside our hearts and always will
How Does a Moment Last Forever (Music Box) was written by Tim Rice & Alan Menken.
How Does a Moment Last Forever (Music Box) was produced by Alan Menken & Michael Kosarin & Matt Sullivan.
Kevin Kline released How Does a Moment Last Forever (Music Box) on Fri Mar 10 2017.
Composer Alan Menken said:
I wanted to add a memory piece but that also felt like boulevard, like French boulevard.
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Maurice’s music box is inspired by his family’s home in Paris, where Belle visits later in the film and sings a reprise of this song. The windmill music box contains small figurines of Maurice painting a portrait of his wife with Belle as a baby in her lap, who sit across from him.