biography
pronunciation:
[shvaw(r)ts]
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| lived:
| (1900–84)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in New York City, New York, USA. While practising law in the mid-1920s, he began selling songs to vaudeville and Broadway revues. During the 1930s–1950s he collaborated for Broadway, mainly with lyricist Howard Dietz, and worked as a Hollywood producer and composer with such lyricists as Dorothy Fields and Ira Gershwin on musicals, revues, films, and television. One of his best-known melodies is that for ‘You and the Night and the Music’, and with Dietz he wrote the show-business standard, ‘That's Entertainment’ (1953). In 1958–83 he was director of ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers). |
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