Hershy Kay

Kay also did orchestrations for Marc Blitzstein (Juno), Harvey Schmidt (110 in the Shade), Cy Coleman (Barnum) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita).In 1954, George Balanchine commissioned Kay to compose the score for his ballet Western Symphony, set in the American West.[2] A composer in his own right, Hershy Kay's reconstruction and orchestration of Louis Moreau Gottschalk's Grande Tarantelle, Op.He also composed music for an LP, Mother Goose, with the actors Boris Karloff, Cyril Ritchard and Celeste Holm;[4] this was first released on Caedmon in 1958.He also re-orchestrated Sigmund Romberg's music in a 1963 Columbia Masterworks recording of selections from the 1924 operetta The Student Prince, starring Roberta Peters, Jan Peerce, and Giorgio Tozzi.
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