Marvin Hamlisch

American composer and conductor (1944-2012).

Born June 2nd, 1944 in Manhattan. [ref]

Died August 7th, 2012 at 68 years old in Los Angeles (respiratory failure). [ref]

Occupations
actor, composer, conductor, film producer, film score composer, songwriter
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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. John Muir