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Tom Shepard
Thomas Z. Shepard (born June 26, 1936) is an American record producer who is best known for his recordings of Broadway theatre, Broadway Musical theater, musicals, including the works of Stephen Sondheim. Shepard is also a composer, conductor, music arranger and pianist. He has won twelve Grammy Awards and produced the original cast recordings of many of the Sondheim musicals, including ''Sweeney Todd (musical), Sweeney Todd'', ''Company (musical), Company'' and ''Sunday in the Park with George'', among others. He also produced the original cast recordings of ''1776 (musical), 1776'', ''La Cage aux Folles (musical), La Cage aux Folles'', ''Chicago (musical), Chicago'' and ''42nd Street (musical), 42nd Street'', among over a hundred others. He has produced hundreds of classical music and popular music recordings. Education and early career Shepard attended The Juilliard School's preparatory division, training in piano and composition, leaving after his third year, in 1949. He th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yale
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Yale was established as the Collegiate School in 1701 by Congregationalist clergy of the Connecticut Colony. Originally restricted to instructing ministers in theology and sacred languages, the school's curriculum expanded, incorporating humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the college expanded into graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first PhD in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Yale's faculty and student populations grew rapidly after 1890 due to the expansion of the physical campus and its scientific research programs. Yale is organized into fifteen constituent schools, including the original under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live From Lincoln Center
''Live from Lincoln Center'' was a seventeen-time Emmy Award-winning series that broadcast notable performances from the Lincoln Center in New York City on PBS starting 1976. The program aired between six and nine times per season. Episodes of ''Live from Lincoln Center'' featured Lincoln Center's resident artistic organizations, most notably the New York Philharmonic. Funding for the series was made possible by major grants from the Robert Wood Johnson 1962 Charitable Trust, Thomas H. Lee and Ann Tenenbaum, the Robert and Renee Belfer Family Foundation, the MetLife Foundation, Mercedes T. Bass, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Production of new episodes has been suspended indefinitely since 2019. History ''Live from Lincoln Center'' premiered on PBS on January 30, 1976, as part of the ''Great Performances'' family of performing arts programs. Since its premiere, the series has presented performances by the world's greatest performing artists. Some of its most notable r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
