{"id":828,"date":"2012-08-07T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/07\/composer-marvin-hamlisch-dies\/"},"modified":"2012-08-07T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T20:39:00","slug":"composer-marvin-hamlisch-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/08\/07\/composer-marvin-hamlisch-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Composer Marvin Hamlisch dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpb.org\/files\/imagecache\/newsArticle\/npr\/images\/hamlisch_custom.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gpb.org\/files\/imagecache\/newsArticle\/npr\/images\/hamlisch_custom.jpg\" width=\"173\" \/><\/a>Prolific composer Marvin Hamlisch died this Monday. Hamlisch was a media legend who won every conceivable award for his music \u2013 including an Oscar, Grammy, Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe, and the Pulitzer Prize for Music. His accomplishments are staggering; even if you don&#8217;t know his name, you may have heard pieces from one of his 45 films, 8 musicals, or one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0006121\/\">countless movies and television shows<\/a> that have reused his works.<\/p>\n<p>While we don&#8217;t have all of Hamlisch&#8217;s films, we do have a handful available for checkout: <\/p>\n<p>Bananas&nbsp;\u2013 HU DVD 122<br \/>The Way We Were&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;HU DVD 3087<br \/>Ordinary People&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;HU DVD 3105<br \/>Sophie&#8217;s Choice&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;HU DVD 4376<br \/>The Spy Who Loved Me&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;HU DVD 4997<br \/>Take the Money and Run&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;HU DVD 5371<br \/>Every Little Step&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;HU DVD 6894<br \/>The Informant!&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;HU DVD 7054<br \/>A Chorus Line&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;HU DVD 9659 and&nbsp;MUSIC LIBRARY DVD 222<\/p>\n<p>Also of interest is <a href=\"http:\/\/proxyau.wrlc.org\/login?url=http:\/\/digital.films.com\/PortalPlaylists.aspx?aid=8604&amp;xtid=43737\">Tradition<\/a>, a streaming PBS documentary about Broadway in the 1960s and 70s for which Hamlisch was interviewed.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prolific composer Marvin Hamlisch died this Monday. Hamlisch was a media legend who won every conceivable award for his music \u2013 including an Oscar, Grammy, Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe, and the Pulitzer Prize for Music. His accomplishments are staggering; even if you don&#8217;t know his name, you may have heard pieces from one of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,22],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-library","category-obituaries","category-streaming-video","tag-related-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}