Today we remember Jule Styne, one of the composers most admired by Marvin Hamlisch. Marvin always spoke with great joy about Jule Styne, and loved his Gypsy Overture! Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 – September 20, 1994) was a American songwriter especially famous for a series of Broadway musicals…read more… Team Marvin Hamlisch / The Music of Marvin …
Boston, MA — The Boston Globe. — The latest installment in the superb “American Masters” series, “Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did for Love,” airing Friday at 9 p.m /8c. In the engrossing documentary about the irrepressible composer- conductor, his relatives joke that Hamlisch’s mother, Lilly, may have invented the style; Hamlisch got into Juilliard at age 6 (pre- college division). …
BROADWAY WORLD: The love story of Terre Blair Hamlisch and her husband, the late composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch, plays like a Hollywood movie. The couple courted over the phone, never coming face to face until the day Hamlisch proposed to her from the other side of a hotel room door, sight unseen. According to the legendary musician himself, his …
LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE: “Marvin would be in traffic and a car would screech. He would hear the exact note.” On New Year’s Eve 2012, the New York Philharmonic held a concert called One Singular Sensation: Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch. The composer had been scheduled to conduct the event but he died in August of that year. As 2013 comes to a …
FORBES: Composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch is the subject of a new documentary premiering on PBS on December 27 (9/8C) A who’s who of celebrities from the entertainment and sports worlds, ranging from Barbra Streisand, Steven Soderbergh and Idina Menzel to Joe Torre, Woody Allen and John Lithgow, is featured in a new documentary about the late composer and conductor …
CHICAGO, IL — Think of Marvin Hamlisch, and it’s impossible not to recall many of the most memorable film and stage melodies of the past 40-plus years. Courtesy Reminder:Film airs on PBS 12/27 9/8c The late, hugely personable talent and very rare PEGOT — winner of a Pulitzer Prize, four Emmy Awards, four Grammys, three Oscars and a Tony — …
Pittsburgh, PA — Mr. Hamlisch died in August 2012 at age 68, leaving a musical legacy that’s explored in Friday’s 90-minute “American Masters” production, from the success of “A Chorus Line” and the theme from “Ice Castles” to the disappointing receptions for Broadway shows “Smile” and “Sweet Smell of Success.” “Sometimes he would get frustrated about it if [a show] …
Pittsburgh, PA ‑Pittsburgh music lovers had the privilege of getting to know Marvin Hamlisch at concerts over the last 20 years of his life, including 17 as principal conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Pops, a post he held until his death Aug. 6, 2012. Many tributes have been offered to Hamlisch since his death yet a new television documentary called …
New York, NY — For anyone mainly familiar with his early Broadway successes (“A Chorus Line,” “They’re Playing Our Song”) and many tunes made famous in films (“The Way We Were,” “Nobody Does It Better”), the documentary provides an interesting overview of a life devoted to music. The young Marvin auditioned for the Juilliard School at the age of 6 …
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Marvin Hamlisch was one of the most successful composers of our time. He could sit down at the piano and rattle off a tune in a nanosecond. Or he could labor over a melody for days. When he died at 68, he left evergreen songs such as “The Way We Were,” “Nobody Does It Better” and …