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The first book-length study of the career and works of celebrated Broadway composer and lyricist Maury Yeston, creator of the Tony Award-winning musicals Nine, Titanic, and Grand Hotel.
Maury Yeston, the celebrated composer and lyricist of the Tony Award-winning musicals Nine, Titanic, and Grand Hotel, has not, until now, been the subject of a full-length study of his career and work. Now, through this comprehensive text, readers can appreciate the full scope of Yeston's output and his place in musical theater history. A Very Unusual Way is a career chronicle combined with close examinations of some of Yeston's most noteworthy compositions, including songs from his famous musicals as well as his lesser-known works. Joshua Rosenblum gives behind-the-scenes accounts of Yeston's Broadway shows and appraises his songs with revelatory analyses that can be appreciated by musicians and lay readers alike. In addition to having full access to the composer's archive, the author conducted over a dozen interviews with Yeston, an unusually articulate, charming, and enlightening subject who offers priceless insights into his work and his process. The book also highlights the numerous well-known artistic figures and collaborators who have featured prominently in Yeston's life, including Stephen Sondheim, Placido Domingo, Federico Fellini, Jane Krakowski, Alan Jay Lerner, Yo-Yo Ma, Alan Menken, Mike Nichols, Barbra Streisand, Tommy Tune, and Jonathan Tunick. As a bonus, "Advice to Young Composers," Yeston's legendary discourse, is included in full as an appendix.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. "I Am Completely Done with Classical Music"
2. Yale
3. Cambridge, Lincoln, and Back to Yale
4. Lehman Engel
5. The Jewish Influence
6. "Nobody Fires Mike Nichols"
7. 8½: A Movie about Itself
8. "A Little Extra Music, I'll Call It Nine"
9. "Europe is in the Music": The Multifaceted Score to Nine
10. Placido Domingo and Goya
11. "You Can't Make It Worse": Grand Hotel
12. The "Other" Phantom
13. "You Are Music": The Phantom Score
14. "They Decided to Go Slumming": December Songs
15 "The Vultures Had Been Salivating": Titanic the Musical
16. The Unsinkable Score to Titanic
17. "I'm a Classical Composer!": An American Cantata and Tom Sawyer
18. "This Movie is Not a Remake of 8½!": Nine the Movie (and the Broadway Revival)
19. Off-Broadway: Death Takes a Holiday and Anything Can Happen in the Theater
20. "Not to Put Too Fine a Point on It"
Acknowledgments
Appendix A: Advice to Young Theater Composers
Appendix B: Tom Sawyer - Orchestration Notes
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
