Marvin Hamlisch

{{short description|American composer and conductor (1944–2012)}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| image = Marvin Hamlisch - 1970s.jpg

| caption = Hamlisch in the early 1970s

| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist

| birth_name = Marvin Frederick Hamlisch

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1944|06|02|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|08|06|1944|06|02|mf=yes}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

| occupation = {{hlist|Composer|conductor}}

| instrument = Piano

| genre = {{hlist|Musical theatre|film music|pops}}

| years_active = 1965–2012

| spouse = {{marriage|Terre Blair
|1989}}

| website = {{url|https://marvinhamlisch.com}}

}}

Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor. He is one of a handful of people to win Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards, a feat dubbed the "EGOT". He and composer Richard Rodgers are the only people to have won those prizes and a Pulitzer Prize ("PEGOT").{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/21/marry-poppins-composer-marc-shaiman-will-egot-if-he-wins-an-oscar.html |title=These fifteen people have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony–here's who could achieve EGOT status next |first=Kerri Anne |last=Renzulli |date=February 21, 2019 |website=CNBC |access-date=2020-05-02}}

Early life

Hamlisch was born in Manhattan, to Viennese-born Jewish parents Lilly (née Schachter) and Max Hamlisch.{{cite web| title=Marvin Hamlisch Biography (1944- )| url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/14/Marvin-Hamlisch.html| website=Filmreference| access-date=November 25, 2008}} His father was an accordionist and bandleader. Hamlisch was a child prodigy; by age five, he began mimicking the piano music he heard on the radio. A few months before he turned seven, in 1951, he was accepted into what is now the Juilliard School Pre-College Division."[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant.jsp?spid=80172&apid=108273 Marvin Hamlisch biography]{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved April 2, 2009. His favorite musicals growing up were My Fair Lady, Gypsy, West Side Story, and Bye Bye Birdie.Cerasaro, Pat (July 22, 2010). [http://broadwayworld.com/article/InDepth_InterView_Marvin_Hamlisch_20100722 "InDepth Interview Marvin Hamlisch"]. BroadwayWorld.

Career

Hamlisch attended Queens College, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967. His first job was as a rehearsal pianist for Funny Girl with Barbra Streisand. Even on tour he would take time to book Kenny Veenstra's Progressive Music Studio to send musical ideas back to "Babs" in NY. Shortly afterward, producer Sam Spiegel hired him to play piano at parties, and later to score Spiegel's 1968 film The Swimmer.

=Music for films=

Liza Minnelli's 1964 debut album included "The Travelin' Life", a song Hamlisch wrote in his teens (originally titled "Travelin' Man").{{cite news| last=Woo| first=Elaine| title=Marvin Hamlisch dies at 68; award-winning composer of popular music| url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-xpm-2012-aug-08-la-me-marvin-hamlisch-20120808-story.html| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| access-date=9 December 2013}} His first hit arrived when he was 21 years old: "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows", co-written with Howard Liebling and recorded by Lesley Gore. It reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1965.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/arts/music/marvin-hamlisch-composer-dies-at-68.html?pagewanted=all |title=Marvin Hamlisch, Whose Notes Struck Gold, Dies at 68 |first=Rob |last=Hoerburger |date=August 7, 2012 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=August 8, 2012}}

His first film score was for 1968's The Swimmer. He also wrote music for several early Woody Allen films, including Take the Money and Run (1969) and Bananas (1971).

Hamlisch and Liebling co-wrote the song "California Nights", which was recorded by Lesley Gore for her 1967 hit album of the same name. The Bob Crewe-produced single peaked at No. 16 on the Hot 100 in March 1967, two months after Gore had performed the song on the Batman television series, in which she guest-starred as an accomplice to Julie Newmar's Catwoman.

File:Marvin Hamlisch - Oscars.jpg, Debbie Reynolds, and Cher.]]

Among Hamlisch's better-known works during the 1970s were adaptations of Scott Joplin's ragtime music for the film The Sting, including its theme song, "The Entertainer". It hit No. 1 on Billboard{{'}}s Adult Contemporary chart and No. 3 on the Hot 100, selling nearly 2 million copies in the U.S. alone. He had great success in 1973, winning two Academy Awards for the title song and the score for the motion picture The Way We Were and an Academy Award for the adaptation score for The Sting.{{cite web| url=http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1355766489454| title=Academy Awards Database: 1973 music category winners| access-date=December 18, 2012| url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415170526/http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1355766489454| archive-date=April 15, 2013}} He won four Grammy Awards in 1974, two for "The Way We Were".

In 1975, he wrote the original theme music for Good Morning America; the show used it for 12 years. He co-wrote "Nobody Does It Better" for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) with his then-girlfriend Carole Bayer Sager, which would be nominated for an Oscar. In the 1980s, he had success with the scores for Ordinary People (1980) and Sophie's Choice (1982). He also received an Academy Award nomination in 1986 for the film version of A Chorus Line.

In 1985, he worked on D.A.R.Y.L., a 1985 film about a boy who is in fact a U.S. military robot. He also worked on the score for The Informant! (2009), starring Matt Damon and directed by Steven Soderbergh. Late in his life, he wrote a children's book Marvin Makes Music, which included the original music "The Music in My Mind" with words by Rupert Holmes; and the score for the HBO film Behind the Candelabra (2013), also directed by Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon and Michael Douglas as Liberace.

=Stage=

Hamlisch's first major stage work was in 1972 playing piano for Groucho Marx at Carnegie Hall for An Evening with Groucho. Hamlisch acted as both straight man and accompanist while Marx, at age 81, reminisced about his career in show business.{{cite journal| url=http://www.antimusic.com/news/12/August/09Author_Michael_Levin_Remembers_Marvin_Hamlisch.shtml| title=Author Michael Levin Remembers Marvin Hamlisch| date=August 7, 2012| journal=AntiMusic| access-date=August 9, 2012}} The performances were released as a two-record set, and remained very popular.{{cite web| url=http://www.ibras.dk/comedy/marx.htm| title=Timbuctoo| website=An Evening With Groucho Marx| access-date=December 14, 2020}}

He then composed the scores for the 1975 Broadway musical A Chorus Line, for which he won both a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize; and for the 1978 musical They're Playing Our Song, loosely based on his relationship with Carole Bayer Sager.{{cite web| url=http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/feature.php/37088/marvin-hamlisch| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130421102215/http://www.thestage.co.uk/features/obituaries/feature.php/37088/marvin-hamlisch| url-status=dead| archive-date=2013-04-21| title=Accounts}}

At the beginning of the 1980s, his romantic relationship with Bayer Sager ended, but their songwriting relationship continued. The 1983 musical Jean Seberg, based on the life of the real-life actress, failed in its London production at the UK's National Theatre and never played in the U.S.[https://web.archive.org/web/20041021011507/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/hamlisch_m.html "Hamlisch biography.Broadway:The American Musical"] PBS, retrieved August 18, 2011. In 1986, Smile was a mixed success and had a short run on Broadway. The musical version of Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (1993) closed after only 188 performances, although he received a Drama Desk nomination, for Outstanding Music.[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=4706 "The Goodbye Girl"], IMDb, retrieved August 18, 2011.

Shortly before his death, Hamlisch finished scoring a musical theatre version of The Nutty Professor, based on the 1963 film.{{cite news| last=Ellis| first=Jeffrey| url=http://broadwayworld.com/article/THE-NUTTY-PROFESSOR-Company-Members-Pay-Tribute-to-Marvin-Hamlisch-20120807| title=The Nutty Professor Company Members Pay Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch| journal=BroadwayWorld| date=August 7, 2012| access-date=August 11, 2012}} The show played in July and August 2012, at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center (TPAC) in Nashville, aiming for a Broadway run.{{cite journal| last=Ridley| first=Jim| url=http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/the-nutty-professor/Event?oid=2935664|title=The Nutty Professor at TPAC| journal=Nashville Scene| access-date=August 11, 2012| url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010013549/http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/the-nutty-professor/Event?oid=2935664| archive-date=October 10, 2012}}{{cite news| last=Ng| first=David| url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-nutty-professor-marvin-hamlisch-20120807,0,7739665.story| title=Without Marvin Hamlisch, some uncertainty for 'Nutty Professor'| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=August 8, 2012| access-date=August 11, 2012}} The book is by Rupert Holmes, and the production was directed by Jerry Lewis.Jones, Kenneth (August 17, 2012). [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/169188-Producers-of-Nutty-Professor-Hope-to-Earn-Broadway-Tenure-for-New-Marvin-Hamlisch-Rupert-Holmes-Show "Producers of Nutty Professor Hope to Earn Broadway Tenure for New Marvin Hamlisch-Rupert Holmes Show"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819030200/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/169188-Producers-of-Nutty-Professor-Hope-to-Earn-Broadway-Tenure-for-New-Marvin-Hamlisch-Rupert-Holmes-Show |date=2012-08-19}}. Playbill. Retrieved August 19, 2013.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-nutty-professor-jerry-lewis-musical-nashville-20120801,0,4021683.story |title=Jerry Lewis' 'Nutty Professor' musical opens in Nashville |last=Ng |first=David |date=August 2, 2012 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=August 18, 2013}}

=Conductor=

File:Official 2011 Marvin Hamlisch.jpg

Hamlisch was musical director and arranger of Barbra Streisand's 1994 concert tour of the U.S. and England as well as of the television special, Barbra Streisand: The Concert, for which he received two of his Emmys. He also conducted several tours of Linda Ronstadt during this period, most notably on her successful 1996 Dedicated to the One I Love tour of arenas and stadiums.{{cite news| title=Remembering Marvin Hamlisch| url=https://blog.timesunion.com/localarts/remembering-marvin-hamlisch/24488/| first=Michael| last=Janairo| date=August 7, 2012| newspaper=Times Union| location=Albany, NY| access-date=December 15, 2020}}

Hamlisch held the position of Principal Pops Conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,[https://web.archive.org/web/20120225051355/http://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/pghsymph.nsf/bios/marvin+hamlisch "Conductors: Marvin Hamlisch"]. Pittsburgh Symphony. Retrieved April 2, 2009. the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra,[http://www.mso.org/main.taf?p=2,3,2 "Marvin Plays Marvin"]. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430000713/http://www.mso.org/main.taf?p=2,3,2 |date=April 30, 2011}}. Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved August 18, 2011. the San Diego Symphony,[http://www.sandiegosymphony.org/musiciansconductors/ "Musicians and Conductors"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120814021910/http://www.sandiegosymphony.org/musiciansconductors/ |date=August 14, 2012}}. San Diego Symphony. Retrieved August 18, 2011. the Seattle Symphony,[http://www.seattlesymphony.org/symphony/buy/single/production.aspx?id=7055&src=t "Holiday POPS! with Marvin Hamlisch"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090506025413/http://www.seattlesymphony.org/symphony/buy/single/production.aspx?id=7055&src=t |date=May 6, 2009}} Seattle Symphony, Retrieved August 18, 2011. the Dallas Symphony Orchestra,[http://www.dallassymphony.com/Conductors.aspx "Conductors"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609141837/http://www.dallassymphony.com/Conductors.aspx |date=2011-06-09 }}. Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Retrieved August 18, 2011. Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra,{{cite news| url=https://buffalonews.com/news/city-mourns-marvin-hamlisch-dead-at-68-acclaimed-composer-felt-at-home-in-buffalo/article_c488a842-91a4-5cce-8821-897d9e2590fd.html| title=City mourns Marvin? Hamlisch, dead at 68 Acclaimed composer felt at home in Buffalo| first=Mary Kunz| last=Goldman| date=August 8, 2012| newspaper=The Buffalo News| access-date=December 15, 2020}} The National Symphony Orchestra Pops,{{cite web| title=Marvin Hamlisch| url=http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=3479&source_type=A| date=August 8, 2012| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009072929/http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=3479&source_type=A| archive-date=October 9, 2012| website=The Kennedy Center}} The Pasadena Symphony and Pops,{{cite news| last=Ng| first=David| title=Marvin Hamlisch named conductor of the Pasadena Pops| url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/08/marvin-hamlisch-named-conductor-of-the-pasadena-pops.html| access-date=March 26, 2012| newspaper=Los Angeles Times| date=August 27, 2010}} and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.{{cite news |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/readers-respond/bs-ed-hamlisch-letter-20120810-story.html |title=Marvin Hamlisch: Composer, conductor, Yankees fan? |newspaper=Baltimore Sun |date=August 10, 2012 |access-date=June 2, 2021}}

On July 23, 2011, Hamlisch conducted his debut concert for Pasadena Symphony and Pops at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Hamlisch replaced Rachael Worby.{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-marvin-hamlisch-20110805-story.html |title=Pasadena Pops' Marvin Hamlisch just wants to have fun |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |first=Diane |last=Haithman |date=August 5, 2011 |access-date=February 17, 2019}} At the time of his death, he was preparing to assume responsibilities as Principal Pops Conductor for The Philly POPS.

Accolades

{{Main|List of awards and nominations received by Marvin Hamlisch}}

Hamlisch is one of ten people to win three or more Oscars in one night and the only one other than a director or screenwriter to do so. He also earned ten Golden Globe Award nominations, winning twice for Best Original Song, with "Life Is What You Make It" in 1972 and "The Way We Were" in 1974.[http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/member/29677 "Marvin Hamlisch Golden Globes Awards"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215202403/http://www.goldenglobes.org/browse/member/29677 |date=2009-12-15}}. Golden Globes. Retrieved August 7, 2009.

He shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976 with Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Nicholas Dante, and Edward Kleban for his musical contribution to the original Broadway production of A Chorus Line. Hamlisch received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 at the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent, Belgium. He was also inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2008.[http://www.limusichalloffame.org/releases/2008/induct_100908.html "The Long Island Music Hall of Fame Second Induction Award Gala on October 30 at the Garden City Hotel"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130100642/http://www.limusichalloffame.org/releases/2008/induct_100908.html |date=2010-11-30}}. Long Island Music Hall of Fame. Retrieved August 18, 2011. In 2008, he appeared as a judge in the Canadian reality series Triple Sensation which aired on CBC. The show was aimed to provide a training bursary to a talented young man or woman with the potential to be a leader in song, dance, and acting.{{cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139548/fullcredits#cast| title=Full cast and crew for 'Triple Sensation'| website=IMDb| access-date=August 11, 2012}}{{cite news| last=Ouzounian| first=Richard| url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/movies/article/1238059--marvin-hamlisch-composer-for-the-sting-and-a-chorus-line-dies-in-l-a| title=Marvin Hamlisch, composer for 'The Sting' and 'A Chorus Line', dies in L.A.| newspaper=Toronto Star| date=August 8, 2012| access-date=August 11, 2012}} In 2008, Hamlisch was also inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.{{cite news| url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/2009/01/28/Lane-Hamlisch-among-Theater-Hall-of-Fame-inductees/stories/200901280222| title=Lane, Hamlisch among Theater Hall of Fame inductees| last=Rawson| first=Christopher| date=January 28, 2009| newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette| access-date=December 15, 2020}}

Personal life

Hamlisch's relationship with lyricist Carole Bayer Sager inspired the musical They're Playing Our Song.Klein, Alvin (August 22, 1993). [https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/22/nyregion/a-new-approach-for-marvin-hamlisch.html?pagewanted=all "A New Approach for Marvin Hamlisch"], The New York Times. He was also in a relationship with actress Emma Samms.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/celebrity-interviews/former-dynasty-star-emma-samms-4027326|title = Dynasty star Emma Samms on her TV comeback|date = 9 August 2014}}{{failed verification|date=July 2022}} He was in a relationship with television personality Cyndy Garvey after her breakup with her husband, Steve Garvey.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/07/14/cyndy-garveys-turn-at-bat/6bc2b732-cf09-44a9-903c-c8b918a3f133/ |title=CYNDY GARVEY'S TURN AT BAT |date=1989-07-14 |author1=Kim Masters |newspaper=The Washington Post |place=Washington, D.C. |issn=0190-8286 |oclc=1330888409}}

In May 1989, Hamlisch married Terre Blair, from Columbus, Ohio, who was the weather and news anchor for that city's ABC affiliate, WSYX-Channel 6.[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/19/style/marvin-hamlisch-to-marry-ms-blair-producer-in-may.html?pagewanted=all "Marvin Hamlisch to Marry Ms. Blair, Producer, in May"], The New York Times. March 19, 1989.{{cite magazine| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iq4DAAAAMBAJ&q=Terre+%22Marvin+Hamlisch%22&pg=PA56| title=People Are Talking About...| journal=Jet| date=June 19, 1989| publisher=Johnson Publishing Company}}Laufenberg, Norbert B. [https://books.google.com/books?id=mzTW9Nitee4C&dq=%22Terre+Blair%22+%22Marvin+Hamlisch%22&pg=PA285 Hamlisch, Marvin] Entertainment Celebrities. Trafford Publishing. (2005) p. 285. {{isbn|978-1412053358}}. The marriage lasted until his death.{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/9459841/Marvin-Hamlisch.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/9459841/Marvin-Hamlisch.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live| title=Marvin Hamlisch| newspaper=The Daily Telegraph| location=London| date=August 8, 2012| access-date=August 11, 2012}}{{cbignore}}

=Death=

After a brief illness, Hamlisch collapsed in Los Angeles on August 6, 2012, and died later that day at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center at age 68.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/arts/music/marvin-hamlisch-composer-dies-at-68.html |title=Marvin Hamlisch, Whose Notes Struck Gold, Dies at 68 |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Rob |last=Hoerburger |date=August 7, 2012 |access-date=February 17, 2019}}{{cite news|url = https://www.tmz.com/2012/08/17/composer-marvin-hamlisch-died-of-lung-failure-doc/|title = Composer Marvin Hamlisch Died of Lung Failure|work = TMZ|date = August 17, 2012|accessdate = March 11, 2022}} According to Hamlisch's death certificate, the cause of death was determined to be respiratory arrest, with hypertension and cerebral hypoxia as contributing factors.{{cite news|url = https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/architecture/2012/08/17/marvin-hamlisch-died-of-lung-failure-according-to-death-certificate/|title = Marvin Hamlisch died of lung failure, according to death certificate|work = The Dallas Morning News|date = August 17, 2012|accessdate = March 11, 2022|last = Tipping|first = Joy}}

The Associated Press described him as having written "some of the best-loved and most enduring songs and scores in movie history".{{cite news| url=http://news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/20220808hamlisch_left_his_signature_on_decades_of_films| title=Marvin Hamlisch left his signature on decades of films| date=August 8, 2012| newspaper=Boston Herald| agency=Associated Press| access-date=August 8, 2012}} Barbra Streisand released a statement praising Hamlisch, stating it was "his brilliantly quick mind, his generosity and delicious sense of humor that made him a delight to be around". Aretha Franklin called him "classic and one of a kind", and one of the "all-time great" arrangers and producers.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/aug/07/marvin-hamlisch-composer-dies| title=Marvin Hamlisch, composer for Broadway and the screen, dies aged 68| agency=Associated Press| date=August 7, 2012| newspaper=The Guardian| location=London}} The head of the Pasadena Symphony and Pops commented that Hamlisch had "left a very specific ... original mark on American music and added to the great American songbook with works he himself composed".

At 8:00 p.m. EDT on August 8, the marquee lights of the 40 Broadway theaters were dimmed for one minute in tribute to Hamlisch,{{cite news| last=Ariosto| first=David| url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/07/us/us-marvin-hamlisch-obit/index.html| title=Broadway to dim in honor of composer Marvin Hamlisch; dead at 68| work=CNN| date=August 7, 2012| access-date=August 11, 2012}}{{cite news| last=Levine| first=Daniel S.| url=http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/2012/08/broadway-dim-lights-tribute-late-composer-marvin-hamlisch| title=Broadway to dim lights in tribute to the late composer Marvin Hamlisch| journal=The Celebrity Cafe| date=August 8, 2012| access-date=August 11, 2012| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604223518/http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/2012/08/broadway-dim-lights-tribute-late-composer-marvin-hamlisch| archive-date=June 4, 2013}} an honor traditionally accorded upon their death to those considered to have made significant contributions to the theater arts.{{cite news |last=Cody| first=Gabrielle H.| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aQqOKWmjdQUC&q=broadway+tradition+dimming+lights+in+tribute&pg=PA1227| title=Shaw, George Bernard| work=Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Volume 2| publisher=Columbia University Press| via=Google Books| year=2007| page=1227| isbn=978-0231144247| access-date=August 11, 2012}}{{cite news| last=Bloom| first=Ken| author-link=Ken Bloom (writer)| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GBiEO8q59f0C&q=broadway+tradition+dimming+lights+in+tribute&pg=PA212| title=Hammerstein, Oscar, II| work=Broadway: An Encyclopedia| publisher=Taylor & Francis| via=Google Books| date=November 11, 2003| page=212| isbn=978-0203644355| access-date=August 11, 2012}}{{cite news| last=Gussow| first=Mel| author-link=Mel Gussow| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/23/movies/sir-john-gielgud-96-dies-beacon-of-classical-stage.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm| title=Sir John Gielgud, 96, Dies; Beacon of Classical Stage| newspaper=The New York Times| date=May 23, 2000| access-date=August 11, 2012}}

Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin, and Liza Minnelli took turns singing songs by Hamlisch during a memorial service for the composer on September 18, 2012.{{cite news| last=Kennedy| first=Mark| title=Streisand, Minnelli Sing for Marvin Hamlisch in NY| url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/barbra-streisand-help-honor-marvin-hamlisch-0#overlay-context=article/kid-tablets-retro-brands-are-toys-r-us-hot-toys| agency=Associated Press| access-date=September 19, 2012}} At the 2013 Academy Awards, Streisand sang "The Way We Were" in Hamlisch's memory. On June 2, 2013, a tribute was held in New York City to remember Hamlisch in advance of the first anniversary of his death.{{cite web| url=https://marvinhamlisch.com/reviews/celebrating-marvin-hamlisch-recent-tributes-and-production-of-his-musical-thanks/| title=Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch - Recent Tributes & Production of his Musicals. THANKS!| website=Marvin Hamlisch| access-date=December 15, 2020}} At the tribute, Staples Players, a high school theatre group from Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut performed a selection of material from A Chorus Line. Other veterans of the screen and stage also performed at the event.{{cite journal| url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/connecticut/article/Staples-Players-Will-Be-a-Part-of-62-Marvin-Hamlisch-Tribute-in-NYC-20130325| title=Staples Players Will Be a Part of 6/2 Marvin Hamlisch Tribute in NYC| journal=BroadwayWorld| language=en| access-date=2019-11-08}}

Work

=Orchestral work=

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Hamlisch was the primary conductor for the Pittsburgh Pops from 1995 until his death.{{cite web |url=https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/pop/marvin-hamlisch |title=Marvin Hamlisch |website=Pittsburgh Music History |access-date=December 15, 2020 |archive-date=September 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911032127/https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/pop/marvin-hamlisch |url-status=dead }}

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra performed a rare Hamlisch classical symphonic suite titled Anatomy of Peace (Symphonic Suite in one Movement For Full Orchestra/Chorus/Child Vocal Soloist) on November 19, 1991.Brozan, Nadine (November 19, 1991). [https://www.nytimes.com/1991/11/19/style/chronicle-596691.html?pagewanted=all "Chronicle"], The New York Times. It was also performed at Carnegie Hall in 1993, and in Paris in 1994 to commemorate D-Day.Croan, Robert (May 30, 1994). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19940530&id=64sNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qG8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=6811,8048143 "Hamlisch Symphony"]. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 19. The work was recorded by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 1992.[http://www.dallassymphony.com/attachments/2009-2010%20Dallas%20Symphony%20Orchestra%20Discography.pdf "Dallas Symphony Orchestra Discography"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609133026/http://www.dallassymphony.com/attachments/2009-2010%20Dallas%20Symphony%20Orchestra%20Discography.pdf |date=2011-06-09}}. Dallas Symphony. p. 4, Retrieved February 4, 2010. The Anatomy of Peace was a book by Emery Reves which expressed the world-federalist sentiments shared by Albert Einstein and many others in the late 1940s, in the period immediately following World War II.{{cite book |last=Reves |first=Emery |year=1945 |title=The Anatomy of Peace |publisher=Harper & Brothers Publishers |location=New York |edition=1 |url=https://archive.org/details/anatomyofpeace009815mbp |url-access=registration}}

=Theatre=

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!Year

!Title

!Role(s)

!Notes

1973

|Seesaw

|Dance Arrangements

1975

|A Chorus Line

|Music by

|Pulitzer Prize for Drama & Tony Award for Best Score

1978

|They're Playing Our Song

|Music by

1983

|Jean Seberg

|Music by

1986

|Smile

|Music by

1993

|The Goodbye Girl

|Music by

2002

|Sweet Smell of Success

|Music by

2002

|Imaginary Friends

|Music by

2012

|The Nutty Professor

|Music by

=Film=

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!Title

!Year

!Role(s)

!Notes

1968

|The Swimmer

1969

|Take the Money and Run

1969

|The April Fools

1970

|Move

1970

|Flap

1971

|Something Big

1971

|Kotch

1971

|Bananas

1972

|The War Between Men and Women

1973

|The World's Greatest Athlete

1973

|Save the Tiger

1973

|The Way We Were

1973

|The Sting

1975

|The Prisoner of Second Avenue

1977

|The Spy Who Loved Me

1977

|The Absent-Minded Waiter

1978

|Same Time, Next Year

1978

|Ice Castles

1979

|Starting Over

1979

|Chapter Two

1980

|Seems Like Old Times

1980

|Ordinary People

1980

|Gilda Live

1982

|Sophie's Choice

1982

|I Ought to Be in Pictures

1983

|Romantic Comedy

1984

|A Streetcar Named Desire

1985

|D.A.R.Y.L.

1985

|A Chorus Line

1987

|When the Time Comes

1988

|Sam Found Out: A Triple Play

1988

|Little Nikita

1988

|David

1989

|The January Man

1989

|Shirley Valentine

1989

|The Experts

1990

|Women & Men: Stories of Seduction

1991

|Switched at Birth

1991

|Missing Pieces

1991

|Frankie and Johnny

1994

|Seasons of the Heart

1996

|The Mirror Has Two Faces

2003

|How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

2009

|The Informant!

2013

|Behind the Candelabra

| Posthumous release

References

External links

{{Archival records|title=Marvin Hamlisch Papers|location= Library of Congress|description_URL=https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu024018}}

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[http://video.pbs.org/video/2365141872/ Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love] — full video of biography film on PBS.org
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[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/marvin-hamlisch/ PBS article]
[https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/pop/marvin-hamlisch Marvin Hamlisch and the Pittsburgh Pops] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911032127/https://sites.google.com/site/pittsburghmusichistory/pittsburgh-music-story/pop/marvin-hamlisch |date=2015-09-11 }}
[http://www.marvinhamlisch.us www.marvinhamlisch.us] — Official site
[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mhyq Marvin Hamlisch] interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, December 9, 1983