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Fulltime observer/critic of the decline and fall of the IQ level of humanity; I applaud those who fly above the daily hurlyburly. Occasional orchestrator, arranger, and music editor. I'm also well known as a restorer of period musicals. I've provided orchestrations for the following:LACC: The Brain From Planet X;New York Musical Theatre Festival: The Night of the Hunter, The Tragic & Horrible Life of the Singing Nun;The Williamstown Theatre Festival: Tonight at 8:30;New York City Ballet: Tea-Rose (Gershwin/Michael Tilson Thomas);Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular;Utah Festival Opera: Greenwillow;Signature Theatre Company: Assassins;New York State Theatre Institute: The Snow Queen, Magna Carta, and A Tale of Cinderella;Houston Grand Opera: Babes in Toyland;Goodspeed Opera: Where's Charley?, Redhead, Mirette, The Chocolate Soldier, and Oh! Kay.My orchestrations may also be heard on recordings by TER, PS Classics, Varese Sarabande, Fynsworth Alley, and Angel/EMI.I've also done concert work for The Boston Pops, Liz Callaway, Ron Raines, Jeff Harnar and Shauna Hicks, Mario Frangoulis, Judy Kaye, Brent Barrett, and Klea Blackhurst.

My Interests

A good book, a good score, a good comedy, a good person

I'd like to meet:

Sadly, most of them are no longer around! Orchestrators: Robert Russell Bennett, Phil Lang, Hershy Kay, Don Walker; Composers: Jerome Moross, Maurice Ravel, Aaron Copland, Carl Davis, Benjamin Britten, Jacques Offenbach, Jerome Kern, Arthur Sullivan, Georges Bizet, Giuseppe Verdi, Tschaikovsky, Kurt Weill, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Rodgers, and Victor Herbert; Writers: Patrick Dennis, Henry Fielding, Carl Hiaasen, Oscar Hammerstein, Jr., Jean Kerr, Richard Wilbur, Mark Twain, W. S. Gilbert, Rupert Holmes, and Jane Austen; Playwrights: Joe Orton, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Laurents, Lillian Hellman; Choreographers: George Balanchine, Agnes deMille, Jerome Robbins

Music:

Opera, a helluva lot of musicals, Judy Collins, the Chad Mitchell Trio, Rupert Holmes, Barbara Cook, Gordon Lightfoot, Guy Haines, Cindy Lauper, Susan Egan, Patti Lupone, and the wonderful artists I've worked with

Movies:

La Kermesse Heroique, Tom Jones, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, The First Nudie Musical, A Christmas Story, Charade, Children of Paradise, Double Indemnity, The Innocents, The Night of the Hunter, Gone With the Wind, Queen Margot

Television:

Law & Order in any form, My Name Is Earl, Ugly Betty

Books:

Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen,Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, Splendora by Edward Swift, Les Trois Mousquetaires by Alexandre Dumas, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Water Music by T.C. Boyle, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Grass Harp by Truman Capote, Chamber Music by Doris Grumbach, The Kritzerland Trilogy by Bruce Kimmel

Heroes:

Everyone I would like to meet listed above, plus those I have met: Stephen Sondheim, John Guare, Chris Durang, John Kander, Jonathan Tunick, Larry Kramer, Michael Weller, Dustin Hoffman, Roger Bourland, Cathie Lyons, also the late great Bill Tynes, Mark Riese, Dick Gallagher, and other good friends who died too soon