Kretzmer wrote lyrics for the BBC's satire That Was The Week That Was, including the racial satire " Song of Nostalgia For an American State " and the much-recorded tribute to John F. Kennedy, " In the Summer of His Years ", written and performed by Millicent Martin within hours of his assassination.

Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for Anthony Newley ’ s cult musical film Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness, whose score included “ When You Gotta Go ”, often used as a closing song by singers including Barbra Streisand.

Kretzmer wrote the book and lyrics of the West End musical, Our Man Crichton, composed by David Lee and based on J M Barrie ’ s satirical play The Admirable Crichton.

In 2008 Kretzmer wrote the lyrics for Marguerite from an original text by Alain Boublil, a musical set in Nazi-occupied Paris, to music by Michel Legrand.

" The inspiration for both score and lyrics feels more like a retread of the worst excesses of Les Misérables ( a fact amplified here by sharing the English lyricist of that show, Herbert Kretzmer ) and Frank Wildhorn, with the occasional Lloyd Webber rock riff thrown in for good measure ", wrote The Stage, while The Times concluded that " the piece displayed moments of musical power.

For the edition broadcast on Saturday 23 November 1963, the day after the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, TW3 produced a shortened 20-minute programme with no satire, reflecting on the loss, including a contribution from Dame Sybil Thorndike and the tribute song " In the Summer of His Years " sung by Martin with lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

The music was composed by Claude-Michel Schönberg, and the lyrics were written by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with an English-language libretto by Herbert Kretzmer.

Schönberg's next project with Boublil, Marguerite, includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

Other award-winning Kretzmer lyrics include “ Yesterday When I Was Young ” and the chart-topping “ She ”, both written with and for the French singer Charles Aznavour ..

** Claude-Michel Schonberg ( composer ), Herbert Kretzmer ( lyricist ), Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg ( producers ), & the original Broadway cast for Les Misérables

Note: The Grammy nominations are credited to the composers and producers and not the artists, the Grammy for Les Miserables was awarded to Claude-Michel Schönberg ( composer and producer ), Herbert Kretzmer ( lyricist ) and Alain Boublil ( producer ).

* 1987: Les Misérables – Book by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

The new musical Marguerite is by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, and includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer.

Kretzmer ’ s lyrics extended the two-hour Paris original into a three-hour show.

For his work on the Les Misérables lyrics, Kretzmer received Tony and Grammy awards.

* 1987: Les Misérables – Claude-Michel Schönberg ( music ) and Herbert Kretzmer ( lyrics )

# Les Misérables, 1980 Paris, 1985 London, 1987 Broadway, m Claude-Michel Schönberg, lb Alain Boublil ( English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer ) (> 10, 800 in London ( the longest-running musical in history ); 6, 680 on Broadway ) ( 1987 Tony Award winner ; nominated for 12 Tony Awards and won eight )

Kretzmer began his professional career writing documentary films and the commentary for a weekly cinema newsreel.

Kretzmer won an Ivor Novello Award for the Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren comedy hit “ Goodness Gracious Me ”, composed by David Lee.

In 1985, Kretzmer ’ s songs for Aznavour came to the attention of producer Cameron Mackintosh, who invited him to write an English version of a French musical Les Misérables ( by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg ).

Herbert Kretzmer OBE ( born 5 October 1925 ) is a South African-born English journalist and lyric writer.

After several years as a feature writer on the Daily Sketch, Kretzmer became a profile writer on the Sunday Dispatch and the Daily Express, interviewing John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Sugar Ray Robinson, Louis Armstrong, Henry Miller, Cary Grant and Duke Ellington.

Kretzmer ’ s most recent musical project is Kristina, based on Vilhelm Moberg ’ s epic suite of novels about Swedish emigrants to Minnesota in the 19th century.

In 1988, Kretzmer was elected a Chevalier of L ’ Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres.

Kretzmer was born in South Africa in 1925.

He is one of four brothers born to Lithuanian-born William and Tilly Kretzmer, who fled the racist pogroms of Czarist Russia to settle in small-town South Africa early in the 20th century.

Kretzmer married Elisabeth Margaret Wilson, and they had one son and one daughter.

On 8 April 2011, Kretzmer received an Honorary Doctorate from Rhodes University in South Africa.

She was also cast in the title role in Marguerite, a new musical from the pens of Michel Legrand, Herbert Kretzmer, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg.

So impressive were those serious years of study at the university that Hans later wrote, `` to be perfectly free, the young man must revel in the great kingdom of thought and imagination ; ;

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

Many years later ( on August 3, 1915 ), Lucy Upton wrote Winslow's daughter soon to be graduated from Smith College: `` While I love botany which, after dabbling in for years, I studied according to the methods of that day exactly forty years ago in a summer school, it must be fascinating to take up zoology in the way you are doing.

Couperin and Rameau gave titles to nearly everything they wrote, not in the later sense of `` program music '' but as a kind of nonmusical reference for the close, clear musical forms filled with keen wit and precise utterance.

In 730, while still living in Damascus, Alhazred supposedly wrote a book of ultimate evil in Arabic, al-Azif, which would later become known as the Necronomicon.

Schiller later wrote the play William Tell romanticising Swiss independence.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

Christie wrote that Poirot is a Roman Catholic, and gave her character a strong sense of Catholic morality later in works.

" Karpov acknowledged that his understanding of chess theory was very confused at that time, and wrote later that the homework which Botvinnik assigned greatly helped him, since it required that he consult chess books and work diligently.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

* Edinburgh University wrote compilers for Algol60 ( later updated for Algol60M ) based on their Atlas Autocode compilers initially bootstrapped from the Atlas to the KDF-9.

129 ) indicate that the poet, his brothers and Pittacus made plans to overthrow him and that Pittacus subsequently betrayed them ; Alcaeus and his brothers fled into exile where the poet later wrote a drinking song in celebration of the news of the tyrant's death ( frag.

Smiley later wrote to Johnson, saying he was ready to fight ; a potential duel was prevented by the intervention of Washington Burrow and Benjamin F. Cheatham.

He later sent a letter to Yeshaq's successor Zara Yaqob in 1450, in which he wrote that he would be happy to send artisans to Ethiopia if their safe arrival could be guaranteed, but it probably never reached the Emperor.

In a later chapter, he wrote:

Several later artists or scholars both created art and wrote about the creation of it.

Apollos and Paul were both in Ephesus at the time Paul wrote the letter ( 55 AD ); 16: 12 states Apollos was unwilling to go to Corinth yet at Paul's urging, but that he would later when he had an opportunity.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

He later wrote: " After more than forty years, we have had no third world war, and the balance of nuclear terror ... may have helped to prevent one.

They started out translating N. W. A songs to Dutch, though later wrote their own rhymes in Dutch.

The technique — as invigorating as it was unorthodox — was later adopted by cartoonists like Walt Kelly and Garry Trudeau ," wrote comic strip historian Rick Marschall.

In 2000, Benny wrote the music for fellow Swede ( no relation ) Roy Andersson's film Songs from the Second Floor ( the music later re-recorded, featuring new lyrics, with BAO!