Yet, you're my favorite work of art.
Bill Evans and Jim Hall's album Undercurrent opens with a song by this composer, which also opens the album Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and names an album Miles Davis recorded live at Lincoln Center in 1964. This composer wrote a song that declares: "It seems we stood and talked this before" titled "Where or When." A "hoofer" gets shot in a 1936 ballet by him that was choreographed by George Balanchine. One of his songs was basically reduced to E minor and E major chords in a 14-minute (*) modal-jazz version. This composer of "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" wrote a song that declares: "Your looks are laughable / Un-photographable / Yet, you're my favorite work of art." One song by him was the first of four tracks on an album titled for that song by John Coltrane. He wrote "My Funny Valentine" with lyricist Lorenz Hart. For 10 points, the song "My Favorite Things" was written by what composer?  
Bill Evans and Jim Hall's album Undercurrent opens with a song by this composer, which also opens the album Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and names an album Miles Davis recorded live at Lincoln Center in 1964.
Richard (Charles) Rodgers 