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Sunrise, Sunset
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Browse piano sheets by Sheldon Harnick And Jerry Bock on Zen Virtual Piano. Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock were a musical-theatre songwriting partnership: Harnick supplied lyrics and Bock composed music. Their work included Fiorello, She Loves Me and Fiddler on the Roof, alongside The Body Beautiful, Tenderloin, The Apple Tree and The Rothschilds. Their collaboration brought together dramatic storytelling and song across subjects ranging from an American mayor’s life to Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye stories. Harnick recalled that the path to Fiddler began with a friend recommending a novel about a travelling theatre troupe. He shared it with Bock, and they brought it to writer Joseph Stein. Although all three liked the material, Stein considered its decades-long story and enormous cast impractical. Further reading led them to the Tevye stories and a more workable theatrical source. Sunrise, Sunset belongs to that shared Fiddler score, with Bock credited for music and Harnick for lyrics. Harnick also worked as a translator and adaptor, including an English adaptation of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and received commissions from theatre and opera institutions.
Browse piano sheets by Sheldon Harnick And Jerry Bock on Zen Virtual Piano.
Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock were a musical-theatre songwriting partnership: Harnick supplied lyrics and Bock composed music. Their work included Fiorello, She Loves Me and Fiddler on the Roof, alongside The Body Beautiful, Tenderloin, The Apple Tree and The Rothschilds. Their collaboration brought together dramatic storytelling and song across subjects ranging from an American mayor’s life to Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye stories.
Harnick recalled that the path to Fiddler began with a friend recommending a novel about a travelling theatre troupe. He shared it with Bock, and they brought it to writer Joseph Stein. Although all three liked the material, Stein considered its decades-long story and enormous cast impractical. Further reading led them to the Tevye stories and a more workable theatrical source.
Sunrise, Sunset belongs to that shared Fiddler score, with Bock credited for music and Harnick for lyrics. Harnick also worked as a translator and adaptor, including an English adaptation of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and received commissions from theatre and opera institutions.
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Bock composed the music and Harnick wrote lyrics. The licensed Fiddler on the Roof materials preserve that division for Sunrise, Sunset.
Harnick’s interview recalls Joseph Stein finding the first novel too large for a practical stage adaptation. Reading more Sholem Aleichem led the collaborators to the Tevye stories.
He translated and adapted texts, including an English adaptation of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with Michel Legrand’s music. Theatre and opera institutions also commissioned his work.