American composer for musical theatre and illustrator (1929–2018)
Tags
Harvey Lester Schmidt (September 12, 1929 – February 28, 2018) was an American composer for musical theatre and illustrator. He was best known for composing the music for the longest running musical in history, The Fantasticks, which ran off-Broadway for 42 years from 1960 - 2002. Schmidt was born in Dallas, Texas. He attended the University of Texas to study art, but when he met Tom Jones at the University he started to accompany the drama student on the piano. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mus
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).