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- Oct. 03, 1994: Died:Jule Styne
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Oct. 03, 1994 Blinksmanship
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 29
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- <p> DIED. JULE STYNE, 88, Broadway and pop composer; in New York
- City. Styne's career peaked during the Golden Age of the American
- musical, and small wonder--his own music was much of what
- made those years golden. Working with lyricist Sammy Cahn, Styne
- brought forth his first Broadway hit in 1947, High Button Shoes.
- The 19 musicals that followed confirmed his instinct for the
- concise but indelible musical phrase as well as his chameleon-like
- gift for adapting to the sensibilities of his lyricists and
- stars. Thus his work ranged in style from the comic panache
- of Bells Are Ringing (1956) to the show-stopping flash of Funny
- Girl (1964) to the bravura Gypsy (1959), which somehow managed
- to meld the operatic dimensions of Ethel Merman with the world-weary
- wit of lyricist Stephen Sondheim; many consider it Styne's best
- work.
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