Herschel Garfein
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. He also collaborated with Aldridge on the oratorio Parables. In his compositions for the musical Suenos he found an inspiration in Hispanic rhythms. Garfein also composed the music and libretto for an opera based on the Tom Stoppard play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
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.
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Mortality Mansions: No. 1, When the Young Husband - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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Mortality Mansions: No. 10, Freezes and Junes - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 1, When the Young Husband - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 2, When I Was Young - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 3, Woolworth's - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 4, The Green Shelf - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 5, Fête - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 6, The Young Watch Us - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 7, Summer Kitchen - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 8, Dying Is Simple, She Said - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 9, Deathwork - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 10, Freezes and Junes - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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Mortality Mansions (With Readings): No. 11, Gold - Garfein: Mortality Mansions – Songs of Love and Loss After 60 -
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