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Name
  
Herschel Garfein

Role
  
Composer

Siblings
  
Blanche Baker


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Parents
  
Carroll Baker, Jack Garfein

Grandparents
  
Virginia Duffy, William Watson Baker

Nephews
  
Zane Van Dusen, James Magill

Nieces
  
Wynn Van Dusen, Dara Van Dusen

Similar People
  
Robert Aldridge, Jack Garfein, Blanche Baker, Carroll Baker, Donald Burton

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Herschel Garfein is a Grammy Award-winning 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.

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Garfein's parents are actress Carroll Baker and film director Jack Garfein, a Czech Jew, who survived the Holocaust. He is married to Vicki Bernstein, and has two children, twins, Hadassa and Lev.

References

Herschel Garfein Wikipedia