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Maury Yeston

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Maury Yeston · Arts & Literature

What

Broadway composer (Nine, Titanic)

When

1945, Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Maury Yeston is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Broadway composer (Nine, Titanic)

How & why

Yeston is a composer and lyricist who won Tony Awards for the scores of 'Nine' and 'Titanic', and wrote music for 'Grand Hotel'. Trained as a music theorist at Yale, where he taught, he brings unusual harmonic sophistication to the Broadway idiom. He was born into a Jewish family in New Jersey.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music

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Broadway composer (Nine, Titanic)

1945

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music