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- Composer Laurence Rosenthal was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied piano and composition at the Eastman School of Music and later with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. His symphonic compositions have been premiered by Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philarmonic, among others. He has composed extensively for films and television. He has been nominated for two Oscars. Among his best-known film scores are A Raisin in the Sun (1961), The Miracle Worker (1962), Becket (1964), The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977), The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) and Peter Brook's Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979). He has won seven Emmys for miniseries, including Peter the Great (1986) and Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986), as well as for episodes of George Lucas's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992).
- IMDb mini biography by: Keith Cohn
- Often worked with director Peter Glenville on both stage and screen; he was all set to work with him again on the film version of "Man of La Mancha" in 1972, but Glenville was dismissed after United Artists learned he planned to eliminate most of the songs from the musical film (he was replaced by Arthur Hiller, who retained all but two of the songs). Rosenthal stayed with the project and it is Rosenthal's orchestrations that are heard in the film; he also conducts the orchestra.
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