is a pianist, conductor, composer, writer, and piano teacher in New York City.
holds a PhD in composition from Rutgers University, and has taught at Rutgers University, Montclair State University and Hunter College. He is enjoying an eclectic career, having composed opera, musical theatre, touring children’s musicals, and incidental music for plays; choral music, band music, orchestral music, chamber music, art songs, and music for solo piano; comedy songs, cabaret songs and one memorable score for an amusement park big-headed-costumed-character show. You can find more information here.
Music by
Arranged for
“Come Play Wiz Me” from Anyone Can Whistle (1964):
“Chrysanthemum Tea” from Pacific Overtures (1976):
Fantasy on Themes from The Frogs (1973):
Rhapsody on Themes from Passion (1994):
“More” from Dick Tracy (1990):
“Everybody Ought to Have a Maid” from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (1962):
“Last Midnight” from Into the Woods (1987):
“Another National Anthem” from Assassins (1991):
“You” from Bounce (2003):
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In 1949, Stephen Sondheim, a student at Williams College, composed Concertino for Two Pianos. These arrangements — for the same combination of two-pianos, four-hands — shine a spotlight on Sondheim the composer.
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