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Maury Yeston
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American composer, lyricist and music theorist
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Death Takes a Holiday
- Death Takes a Holiday
- Nine
- Nine (Ensemble Version)
- Death Takes a Holiday
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Film & TV
Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Maury Yeston is an American composer, lyricist and music theorist, perhaps best known for his work on the musicals Nine (1982), Grand Hotel (1989), Phantom (1992), and Titanic (1997). Yeston also provided arrangements for the critically divisive 2009 film adaptation of Nine, as well as the 1980 album Christmas in the Stars, based on the Star Wars mythology.
Known for
- Howard — Self (archive footage)2018
- You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story — Self1990
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8,206
- Total plays
- 128,777
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Maury Yeston is a American composer and lyricist educated at Yale and Clare College, Cambridge. He was a member of the Yale faculty for eight years, where he was Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music. He is best known for his Broadway stage musicals, which include: Nine (1982, revived 2003, film 2009), Grand Hotel (1989), Titanic (1997). He is the winner of the Tony Award for Best Original Score in 1982 (Nine), and 1997 (Titanic) and was nominee <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Maury+Yes
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Jersey City
- Occupation
- librettist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music theory
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- date of birth
- 1945-10-23
- copyright representative
- Broadcast Music, Inc.
- birth name
- Maury Alan Yeston
- name in native language
- Maury Yeston
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Original Score
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