While teaching at Yale, Yeston continued to attend the BMI workshop principally to work on his project, begun in 1973, to write a musical inspired by Federico Fellini's 1963 film 8½.

Yeston began work on choral arrangements for 24 women.

In 1981, while collaborating on Nine, Tune asked Yeston to write incidental music for an American production of Caryl Churchill's play Cloud Nine.

Yeston took time off from Yale to work on the project and had already written several songs, but Carr was unable to put together the financing for the show, and the project was postponed.

Meanwhile, Yeston and Tune turned back to Nine, which opened on Broadway on May 9, 1982 at the 46th Street Theatre and ran for 729 performances.

After the success of Nine, Yeston left his position as associate professor at Yale, although he continued to teach a course there every other semester on songwriting.

Yeston also wrote In the Beginning ( originally called 1-2-3-4-5 ), a musical based on the first five books of the Bible, presented at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1987 and 1988.

Domingo was interested in starring in a stage musical about Goya and suggested to producer Alan Carr that Yeston would be the right person to create the vehicle, since Domingo had admired Yeston's work on Nine.

After Grand Hotel opened on Broadway in November 1989, Yeston, along with Wright and Forrest, was nominated for the Tony Award for best score.

Minghella's last work was the screenplay of the film adaptation of the 1982 Tony Award-winning musical Nine, based on the film 8½, book by Arthur Kopit, score by Maury Yeston.

* Maury Yeston composed December Songs, a song cycle influenced by Winterreise on commission from Carnegie Hall for its 1991 Centennial celebration.

One of the earliest was " December Songs ", created by Maury Yeston, and commissioned by Carnegie Hall for its Centennial celebration.

* Yeston, Maury, ed.

In 2011, one of his projects was completed with Thomas Meehan ( writer ), and Death Takes a Holiday ( musical ) was produced off-Broadway with a score by Maury Yeston.

* 1982: Nine – Book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston.

Maury Yeston ( born October 23, 1945 ) is an American composer, lyricist, educator and musicologist.

Yeston also wrote a significant amount of the music and most of the lyrics to the Tony-nominated musical Grand Hotel in 1989, which was nominated for best score.

Yeston was born in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Yeston noted in a 1997 interview, " My mother was trained in classical piano, and her father was a cantor in a synagogue.

" At age five, Yeston began taking piano lessons from his mother, and by age seven he had won an award for composition.

At Jersey Academy, a small private high school in Jersey City, Yeston broadened his musical study beyond classical and religious music and Broadway show tunes to include jazz, folk, rock and roll, and early music.

As an undergraduate at Yale University, Yeston majored in music theory and composition and minored in literature, particularly French, German, and Japanese.

Yeston noted, " I am as much a lyricist as a composer, and the musical theatre is the only genre I know in which the lyrics are as important as the music.

" After graduating from Yale in 1967, Yeston attended Clare College at Cambridge University in England.

Upon earning his master's degree at Cambridge in 1972, Yeston returned to the United States to accept a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, which included a teaching position at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the country's oldest traditionally black college.

At Lincoln, Yeston taught music, art, philosophy, religion, and western civilization, and started a course in the history of black music.

Yeston pursued his musicology doctorate at Yale and enrolled in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, travelling to New York City each week, where he and other aspiring composer / lyricists were able to try out material for established Broadway producers and directors.

As a teenager, Yeston had seen the film, about a film director suffering a midlife crisis and a creativity drought, and he was intrigued by its themes.

It became an obsession ," Yeston told The New York Times in 1982.

Yeston called the musical Nine ( the age of the director in his flashback ), explaining that if you add music to 8½, " it's like half a number more.

In 1978, at the O ' Neill conference, Yeston and director Tommy Tune held a staged reading of Nine.

When Yeston went to ask permission to make the show a musical, Fellini told him he already received a letter from Hepburn and gave him permission.

The show originally had male and female parts, but Yeston was not satisfied with the men auditioning, except Raul Julia.

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