AUDIO: A Conversation With Marvin Hamlisch

AUDIO: A Conversation with Marvin Hamlisch
Performing With CIM Orchestra at Severance Hall 1/29




Child prodigy Marvin Hamlisch started picking out tunes he heard off the radio at the age of 5. His father, a Viennese accordionist and bandleader filled the house with music and one critical piece of hardware: a piano. Young Marvin started playing those radio tunes on the piano and never turned back. By age seven, he was studying at a division of the Julliard School, he became Barbara Streisand’s rehearsal pianist for Funny Girl, and then started composing a remarkable streak of hit tunes and film scores, winning 3 Oscars in 1973, only the second person to do so, and achieving the “Grand Slam”” of winning Oscar (3), Emmy (4), Grammy (4) and Tony (1) awards. Plus a Pulitzer Prize.

The Cleveland Institute of Music’s benefit One Singular Sensation on Sat 1/29 at Severance Hall will feature Marvin Hamlisch conducting the CIM Orchestra and select CIM vocalists presenting Broadway tunes and the Hamlisch songbook. Get tickets here. Cool Cleveland spoke with Mr. Hamlisch about the importance of childhood arts and music education, and about his fabulous career in film and pop music composition. Listen in on the call here.

On Fri 1/28 at 1PM in CIM’s Mixon Hall, Marvin Hamlisch will coach CIM students in a master class that is free and open to the public. These students will then perform with Mr. Hamlisch and the CIM Orchestra in the Sat 1/29 performance at Severance Hall. For details, call 216-791-5000 X225.

For more information and Severance Hall tickets, click here: CIM.edu

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