| Composer Marvin Hamlisch dies | |
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| Mobson | Aug 7 2012, 06:29 PM Post #1 |
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The composer Marvin Hamlisch, who wrote the scores for films and shows including The Sting and A Chorus Line, has died in Los Angeles, aged 68. He collapsed after a brief illness and died yesterday. His sudden death has taken many by surprise; eerily his own website and Facebook page says he was looking forward to a return stint conducting the Pasadena Symphony, whose President Melinda Shea said Hamlisch's death was unexpected and that she knew of no serious health problems. "He'd pulled a back muscle recently, but there was nothing serious. He had some really wonderful new endeavors," Shea said. "It's just such a tragedy that this has happened, when he was still so young." Shea added that Mr Hamlisch had signed a 3-year contract with the Pasadena symphony within the last few weeks and said he had other new ventures, including a movie about Liberace. Hamlisch wrote more than 40 film scores including his Oscar-winning score and title song for The Way We Were. In total he won three Academy Awards, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony and three Golden Globes. His publicist said he had been scheduled to fly to Nashville, Tennessee, this week to see a production of his latest hit musical, The Nutty Professor. Directed by Jerry Lewis, the show is based on the 1963 comedy film of the same name. It is due to transfer to Broadway. He was working on a new musical, Gotta Dance, at the time of his death and was scheduled to write the score for a new film about Liberace, Behind the Candelabra, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, and directed by Steven Soderbergh, the HBO biopic is currently in production and is due out in 2013. Just look at this wonderful man's body of work >>>> click on biography for a full list http://www.marvinhamlisch.com/ Barbra Streisand, who worked closely with Mr. Hamlisch throughout his career and performed many of his songs, said in a statement on this afternoon: "I’m devastated. He was my dear friend. He’s been in my life ever since the first day I met him in 1963, when he was my rehearsal pianist for ‘Funny Girl.’ He played at my wedding in 1998 … and recently for me at a benefit for women’s heart disease. The world will remember Marvin for his brilliant musical accomplishments, from ‘A Chorus Line’ to ‘The Way We Were,’ and so many others, but when I think of him now, it was his brilliantly quick mind, his generosity, and delicious sense of humor that made him a delight to be around. Just last night, I was trying to reach him, to tell him how much I loved him, and that I wanted to use an old song of his, that I had just heard for the first time. He was a true musical genius, but above all that, he was a beautiful human being. I will truly miss him." ..New York Times Edited by Mobson, Aug 8 2012, 05:42 PM.
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| rumbaba | Aug 7 2012, 07:27 PM Post #2 |
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I thought you meant Scott Joplin ![]() |
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| Mobson | Aug 7 2012, 08:44 PM Post #3 |
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Didn't he die in 1917?
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| rumbaba | Aug 7 2012, 09:18 PM Post #4 |
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Exactly, that was going to be my point
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