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disappeared for 33 years but was recently discovered at the Library of Congress. It has since been released in a new recording with Carol Burnett, Nathan Lane, and Bernadette Peters. In the field of chamber music, he composed a large work for mezzo-soprano and ensemble, Songs to the Beloved, based on the poetry of 13th-century Persian mystic, Rumi. It has been performed at a number of music festivals in the West. In 2004, his Prophetic Voices for solo violin, percussion, and orchestra had its first performance in San Diego. His symphonic suite drawn from the film score for Becket was given its world premiere performance in 2005 by Michael Morgan and the Oakland East Bay Symphony with the Schola Cantorum choirs. Since then, Rosenthal has completed Vienna: Sweet & Sour, a suite of dances for string orchestra and harp, drawn from his score to A Patriot for Me. He has also just composed a choral work commissioned by the Oakland Symphony. In 1999 The Film Music Society of Los Angeles honored him with its Career Achievement Award, and in April of 2006, he was honored by ASCAP with their Life in Music Award.
 
Laurence Rosenthal was born in Detroit Michigan. After years of piano study as a child, he attended the Eastman School of Music. From there he went to Paris and studied composition for two years with Nadia Boulanger and to Salzburg, studying conducting at the Mozarteum. Later, while serving in the U.S. Air Force, he was chief composer in the Air Force Documentary Film Squadron. Following his tour of duty in the Air Force, he came to New York and began composing for the Broadway theater. This included incidental music for dramatic plays, such as a stage version of Rashomon, Jean Anouilh's Becket, John Osborne's A Patriot for Me, and ballet music for the musical The Music Man. In collaboration with Agnes de Mille he created a ballet for American Ballet Theater, The Wind in the Mountains. His symphonic compositions were premiered by Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, Erich Leinsdorf and the Rochester Philharmonic, and others. At the same time, Rosenthal began composing for motion pictures in New York, the West Coast, and Europe. His original score for the film version of Becket and his adaptation of Man of La Mancha were both nominated for Academy Awards. Some of the early films which he scored, such as A Raisin in the Sun, The Miracle Worker and Requiem for a Heavyweight, have become classics. He also collaborated with the great British theater director Peter Brook on a film version of Gurdjieff’s Meetings with Remarkable Men. Composing also for television, he has been awarded the Emmy seven times. The first was for the NBC documentary Michelangelo: The Last Giant. His scores for the historical miniseries Peter the Great and Anastasia and the spy-thriller The Bourne Identity won Emmys in three successive years. Later he contributed many scores to George Lucas's series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, three of them winning Emmys in 1994, 1995, and 1997. He also scored the last film of both Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott, Inherit the Wind. Rosenthal’s Broadway musical, Sherry! was based on Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s The Man Who Came to Dinner. Its score mysteriously
 
 
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