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Biography
Infobox musical artist| name = Jerry Bock| image = Jerry Bock.jpg| caption =| image_size =| background = non_performing_personnel| birth_name = Jerrold Lewis Bock| birth_date = birth date|mf=y|1928|11|23| birth_place = New Haven, Connecticut , United States|U.S. | death_date = death date and age|mf=y|2010|11|03|1928|11|23| death_place = Mount Kisco, New York , United States|U.S. | genre = Musical theater | occupation = Composer , lyricist | years_active = 1955–2010 Jerrold Lewis "Jerry" Bock (November 23, 1928spaced ndashNovember 3, 2010) was an American musical theater composer . He received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Sheldon Harnick for their 1959 musical Fiorello! and the Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist for the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof with Harnick.
Biography
Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Flushing, Queens , New York , Bock studied the piano as a child. He attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison , where he wrote the musical Big As Life , which toured the state and enjoyed a run in Chicago . After graduation he spent three summers at the Tamiment Playhouse in the Poconos and wrote for early television revues with lyricist Larry Holofcener .
Career
He made his Broadway theatre|Broadway debut in 1955 when he and Lawrence Holofcener contributed songs to Catch a Star . The following year the duo collaborated on the musical Mr. Wonderful (musical)|Mr. Wonderful , designed for Sammy Davis, Jr. , after which they worked on Ziegfeld Follies of 1956 , which closed out-of-town. http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/music/musbock/@Generic BookView Guide to the Jerry Bock Papers, 1945-2004and was a famous singer.is it cool i know right& #33; :)
Shortly after, Bock met lyricist Sheldon Harnick , with whom he forged a successful partnership. Although their first joint venture, The Body Beautiful , failed to charm the critics, its score caught the attention of director George Abbott and producer Harold Prince|Hal Prince . They hired the team to compose a musical biography of former New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia . Fiorello! (1959) went on to win them both the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama .
Bock's additional collaborations with Harnick include Tenderloin (musical)|Tenderloin (1960), Man in the Moon (1963), She Loves Me (1963), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), The Apple Tree (1966), and The Rothschilds (musical)|The Rothschilds (1970), as well as contributions to Never Too Late (1962), Baker Street (musical)|Baker Street (1965), Her First Roman (1968), and The Madwoman of Central Park West (1979). Bock wrote the music for the musical hit song " If I Were a Rich Man (song)|If I Were a Rich Man ".
Established in 1997, the Jerry Bock Award for Excellence in Musical Theater is an annual grant presented to the composer and lyricist of a project developed in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop . http://www.bmifoundation.org/pages/JBock.asp Bock listing bmifoundation.org
Bock spoke at the funeral of 98-year-old Fiddler playwright Joseph Stein just 10 days before his own death, from heart failure at the age of 81.cite web|title=FIDDLER Composer Jerry Bock Dies at 81|url= http://broadwayworld.com/article/FIDDLER_Composer_Jerry_Bock_Dies_at_81_20101103|publisher=broadwayworld.com|accessdate=3 November 2010
Awards and nominations
; Awards
1960 Tony Award for Best Musical – Fiorello!
1960 Pulitzer Prize for Drama – Fiorello!
1965 Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist – Fiddler on the Roof
1965 Tony Award for Best Musical – Fiddler on the Roof
; Nominations
1964 Tony Award for Best Musical – She Loves Me
1967 Tony Award for Best Composer and Lyricist – The Apple Tree
1967 Tony Award for Best Musical – The Apple Tree
1971 Tony Award for Best Original Score – The Rothschilds
References
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External links
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http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/mus/pdf/musbock.pdf Jerry Bock papers in the http://www.nypl.org/musicdiv Music Division of http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/lpa.html The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/exhibit_bio.asp? exhibitId=327 Songwriters Hall of Fame biography
http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/interactive/video/index.html#b TonyAwards.com Interview with Jerry Bock
PulitzerPrize DramaAuthors 1951-1975TonyAward MusicalScore 1947–1975Bock and Harnick Persondata|NAME=Bock, Jerry |ALTERNATIVE NAMES= |SHORT DESCRIPTION=American theatre composer |DATE OF BIRTH=November 23, 1928 |PLACE OF BIRTH= New Haven, Connecticut , United States |DATE OF DEATH=November 3, 2010 |PLACE OF DEATH= Mount Kisco, New York , United States
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