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Awards & Recognition
Pulitzer Prize
In Drama For "A Chorus Line" 1976
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Individual Achievement In Music & Lyrics For "Barbra Streisand: The Concert" 1995
Outstanding Individual Achievement In Music Direction For "Barbra Streisand: The Concert" 1995
Outstanding Music & Lyrics: For "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies" 1999
Outstanding Music Direction For "Barbra Streisand Timeless" 2001
Grammy Awards
Best Pop Instrumental Performance For "The Entertainer" 1974
For Best New Artist 1974
Composer Of Best Original Score For A Motion Picture For "The Way We Were" 1974
Songwriter For The Song Of The Year: "The Way We Were" (Barbra Streisand) 1974
Oscars
For Adapted Music Score For "The Sting" 1973
For Original Music Score For "The Way We Were" 1973
For Best Song For "The Way We Were" 1973
Tony Award
For Best Score-Music For "A Chorus Line" 1976
PEGOTs: Hamlisch was one of only twelve people to win all four major U.S. performing awards -- the Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar, and Tony. He is one of only two to have also won the Pulitzer Prize (the other being Richard Rodgers, but the whereabouts of all of his awards are unknown, hence, this is the only complete collection).
In addition, Hamlisch won dozens of other major awards, including two Golden Globe awards, including two Golden Globe awards for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture: "Life is What You Make It" from "Kotch" (1972) and "The Way We Were" (1974). Hamlisch was also awarded a Platinum Record for sales of more than 2,000,000 copies of the Columbia original Broadway cast recording of "A Chorus Line." Among the other Platinum and Gold Records he was awarded were those for: "The Way We Were" (both the album and the single), "The Entertainer," "The Sting," and "Nobody Does It Better."
LOCHAM_171005_08.JPG: PEGOTs: Hamlisch was one of only twelve people to win all four major U.S. performing awards -- the Emmy, the Grammy, the Oscar, and Tony. He is one of only two to have also won the Pulitzer Prize (the other being Richard Rodgers, but the whereabouts of all of his awards are unknown, hence, this is the only complete collection).
In addition, Hamlisch won dozens of other major awards, including two Golden Globe awards, including two Golden Globe awards for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture: "Life is What You Make It" from "Kotch" (1972) and "The Way We Were" (1974). Hamlisch was also awarded a Platinum Record for sales of more than 2,000,000 copies of the Columbia original Broadway cast recording of "A Chorus Line." Among the other Platinum and Gold Records he was awarded were those for: "The Way We Were" (both the album and the single), "The Entertainer," "The Sting," and "Nobody Does It Better."
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His Work
Songs Include
At The Ballet... Better Than Ever... Break It To Me Gently... California Nights... Dance Ten: Looks Three... Disneyland... Dreamers... Easy For You... Fallin'... Get Yourself A Dream... The Girl Who Used To Be Me... Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love... I Can Do That ...I Finally Found Someone... I Hope I Get It... I Still Believe In Love... If You Really Knew Me... If You Remember Me... In Our Hands... The Last Time I Felt Like This... The Music And The Mirror... Nobody Does It Better... Nothing... One... Ordinary Miracles... Smile... Somewhere I Belong... Starting Over... Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows... Sweet Alibis... The Theme From "Ice Castles" (Through The Eyes Of Love)... They're Playing Our Song... The Travelin' Life... The Way We Were... What I Did For Love
Film And Television Scores
The Swimmer... Take The Money And Run... The April Fools... Move... Flap... Bananas... Kotch... Something Big... The War Between Men And Women... The World's Greatest Athlete... Save The Tiger... The Sting... The Way We Were... The Prisoner Of Second Avenue... The Spy Who Loved Me... Same Time, Next Year... Ice Castles... Ordinary People... Starting Over... Chapter Two... Seems Like Old Times...I Ought To Be In Pictures... Sophie's Choice... Romantic Comedy... A Streetcar Names Desire.. D.A.R.Y.L....The Two Mrs. Grenvilles... When The Time Comes... 3 Men And A Baby... Little Nikita... David... The January Man... The Experts... Missing Pieces... Switched At Birth... Frankie And Johnny... Seasons Of The Heart... Open Season... The Mirror Has Two Faces... Candles On Bay Street... The Informant
Television Themes
Doc Elliot... Hot L Baltimore... Beacon Hill... Good Morning America... Brooklyn Bridge... The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie... The Nancy Walker Show... Calucci's Department Store ... Needles And Pins
Musicals
A Chorus Line... They're Playing Our Song... Smile... Jean Seberg... The Goodbye Girl ... Sweet Smell Of Success... The Nutty Professor
Orchestral Work
Anatomy Of Peace
Principal Pops Conductor
Marvin Hamlisch Held The Position Of Principal Pops Conductor For The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony And Pops, Seattle Symphony, San Diego Symphony, The Buffalo Philharmonic And The National Symphony Orchestra In Washington, D.C.
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His Life
Composer, songwriter, pianist, conductor, and raconteur Marvin Frederick Hamlisch was born in New York City on June 2, 1944. His parents, Lilly (née Schacter) and Max Hamlisch, an accordionist and bandleader, escaped from Vienna in the lead-up to World War II. Hamlisch's musical talents became evident by the time he was five when he began to play songs on the piano that he learned by ear from listening to the radio. At the age of six, Hamlisch was accepted into what is now the Juilliard School Pre-College Division - the youngest student to that date.
Hamlisch secured a job as an assistant to Buster Davis, vocal arranger for the original Broadway production of Funny Girl (1964), where his duties included working with Barbra Streisand as a rehearsal pianist for the show - establishing a close working relationship that would continue until his death. His first song hit, "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows," was written when he was twenty-one. The recording by Lesley Gore shot to number four on the charts and was quickly followed by her hit recording of "California Nights." Meanwhile, Hamlisch continued as Buster Davis's assistant on NBC's The Bell Telephone Hour while simultaneously attending Queens College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967.
After playing the piano at a party for the film producer Sam Spiegel, Hamlisch auditioned for him as a composer, and was hired to score his first film, The Swimmer (1968). This was quickly followed with scores for two Woody Allen films - Take the Money and Run and Bananas - establishing an unanticipated career as a film composer, which would ultimately have him composing and arranging over 45 scores for films and television movies throughout his career.
There was a brief detour where Hamlisch toured with Groucho Marx as his accompanist (and straight man), culminating in a concert at Carnegie Hall in 1972. It was the next year that Hamlisch's career took off, making him a household name. He composed the score and title song for The Way We Were and adapted Scott Joplin rags for the film The Sting (and was also the pianist for the recording). In 1974 he was awarded an unprecedented three music-related Oscars, for original score, title song, and adapted score. Accepting the third award he famously blurted out: "I think we can now talk as friends..." This, followed by innumerable appearances as a guest on television shows - where he revealed self-deprecating charm, a talent for composing songs on command, and an easy humor-made Hamlisch an in-demand celebrity.
In 1975, Hamlisch finally accomplished his long-dreamed-of goal to compose the score for a Broadway musical. That show, A Chorus Line, went on to become the longest running Broadway musical to date, with 6,137 performances, and garnered Hamlisch a Tony Award and a Pulitzer Prize. He followed that up in 1979 with the score for the musical They're Playing Our Song, written by Neil Simon, and based on the relationship between Hamlisch and his collaborating lyricist at the time, Carol Bayer Sager. That show ran for 1,082 performances, with Hamlisch having two shows running on Broadway simultaneously.
Scores for films and musicals continued, including the score for the James Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), with its seductive theme song, "Nobody Does it Better." Three more Broadway musicals followed, Smile (1986), The Goodbye Girl (1993), and Sweet Smell of Success (2002).
In 1988, Hamlisch began a long-distance relationship (via telephone) with Terre Blair, a broadcast journalist. They finally met in person the following year, and they married on March 6, 1989.
Meanwhile, Hamlisch had begun yet another career, as a conductor for both concert tours with singers, particularly Barbra Streisand, and of Pops orchestras, becoming principal pops conductor for several of them, including the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. In 1991 he composed the concert work: "The Anatomy of Peace," Suite in One Movement for Full Orchestra and Chorus, which was premiered by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. His last film score was for The Informant! (2009). On August 6, 2012, at the age of 68, Hamlisch died unexpectedly in Los Angeles. At the time of his death he had just completed adapting the music for the HBO film Behind the Candelabra (which aired in 2013), and a new musical aiming for Broadway, The Nutty Professor, which premiered in Nashville.
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