Herschel Garfein (born January 17, 1958) is an American composer, librettist, stage director, and faculty member of the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University, where he teaches Script Analysis. Garfein is widely known for his libretto written for Robert Aldridge's Elmer Gantry, which won two 2012 Grammy Awards including "Best Contemporary Classical Composition" won by Garfein and Aldridge.[1] He also collaborated with Aldridge on the oratorio Parables. In his compositions for the musical Suenos he found an inspiration in Hispanic rhythms.[2] Garfein also composed the music and libretto for an opera based on the Tom Stoppard play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.[3]
Garfein's parents are actress Carroll Baker and film director Jack Garfein, a Czechoslovak Jew, who survived the Holocaust. His sister is actress Blanche Baker. He is married to Vicki Bernstein, and has two children, twins, Hadassa and Lev.[4]
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^"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead: A New Opera". Retrieved 27 September 2016.
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HerschelGarfein (born January 17, 1958) is an American composer, librettist, stage director, and faculty member of the Steinhardt School of Music at New...
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and a son, HerschelGarfein (born 1958), who is a composer and faculty member at the Steinhardt School of Music at New York University. Garfein and Baker...
read by the author, the music is by Grammy Award-winning composer HerschelGarfein. His last book A Carnival of Losses: Essays Nearing Ninety was published...
premieres by composers including Grammy Award winners Robert Aldridge and HerschelGarfein as well as Prix de Rome winner Christopher Theofanidis. Of Spanish...
Catholic who converted to Judaism. She also has a younger brother, HerschelGarfein. She spent her early life in Italy, where her mother had established...
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The WDR Big Band (Producer, Liner Notes) 2018: Mortality Mansions – HerschelGarfein & Donald Hall (Producer) 2018: Argentina vs. Uruguay – Gustavo Casenave...
"Wildchild" Middleton, and Grammy Award winners Wouter Kellerman, Ricky Kej, HerschelGarfein, and Kabir Sehgal. Bluestone Sherman's young adult novel Monday in...
Milwaukee, Wisconsin produced the world premiere of Robert Aldridge and HerschelGarfein's operatic adaptation of the book in October 2016. *Theodore Dreiser...
The WDR Big Band (Producer, Liner Notes) 2018: Mortality Mansions – HerschelGarfein & Donald Hall (Producer) 2018: Argentina vs. Uruguay – Gustavo Casenave...
BBC Symphony Chorus; Sir Andrew Davis) Robert Aldridge (music) and HerschelGarfein (libretto) – Sister Carrie Brian Ferneyhough – La Terre Est Un Homme...
Rachel Peters and Royce Vavrek Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by HerschelGarfein Semmelweis by Raymond J. Lustig and Matt Gray Sharon's Grave by Richard...
Adès and Tom Cairns – The Exterminating Angel Robert Aldridge and HerschelGarfein – Sister Carrie Gerald Barry – Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Iain...
Gray in 1999. In 2009, the Florentine presented Robert Aldridge and HerschelGarfein's Elmer Gantry. A world premiere of Don Davis' Spanish language Río...
Comedy. Columbia University Press. pp. 5–10. ISBN 9780742643543. Garfein, Herschel; Gordon, Mel; Turci, Gennaro (1978-01-01). "The Adriani Lazzi of the...
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