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RICHARD ADLER Richard Adler has long enjoyed the reputation of one of America’s top Broadway composers. He was born in New York City in 1921. Adler was the son of Clarence Adler, who was well known for his broadcast performances of Mozart concertos and for teaching such musicians as Richard Rodgers and Aaron Copland. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1943. In one of the most celebrated collaborations in Broadway history, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross composed the music and lyrics for The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, both winners of the Tony, Donaldson and Variety Critics Awards. After Ross’s death in 1955, Adler went on to write the music and lyrics for stage musicals as well as television productions. Mr. Adler has received many orchestral and ballet commissions, including Eight by Adler (1984 for the Chicago City Ballet; Emmy Award for 1985 television version). Mr. Adler is the recipient of two Tonys, a Tony nomination, four Pulitzer Prize nominations, and an Emmy. He has served as a trustee of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and in 1984, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Of his many lifetime achievement awards, the most recent was from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Mr. Adler is most fond of having been only the eighth recipient of the National Parks Service Honorary Ranger Award. One of his symphonic works, The Lady Remembers, was commissioned for The Lady’s centennial, by The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation and premiered at the Kennedy Center. In 2006, a major Broadway revival of the Adler and Ross musical, Pajama Game opened at the American Airlines Theater on 42nd Street. It won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. The 2008 NYC “Encores!” production of “Damn Yankees” with Sean Hayes and Jane Krakowski. received great critical acclaim. Richard Adler’s career has been spent in service to one of life’s greatest pleasures: the performing arts, from Broadway musicals to symphonic works to ballet to children’s theatre. The title of his 1990 autobiography is You Gotta Have Heart. |
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