What Pulitzer prize winning, American composer known for exploring addiction and homophobia, wrote "Tick, Tick...Boom!"?
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Jonathan Larson Jonathan Larson (February 4, 1960 – January 25, 1996) was an American composer and playwright noted for exploring the social issues of multiculturalism, addiction, and homophobia in his work. Typical examples of his use of these themes are found in his works, "Rent" and "tick, tick... BOOM!" He received three posthumous Tony Awards and a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the rock musical "Rent".
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Tick, Tick... Boom! Tick, Tick... Boom! (styled as tick, tick... BOOM!) is a musical written by American composer Jonathan Larson, who won a Pulitzer and three Tony Awards for his musical "Rent". "Tick, Tick... Boom!" tells the story of an aspiring composer named Jon, who lives in New York City in 1990. Jon is worried he has made the wrong career choice to be part of the performing arts. The story is autobiographical, as stated by Larson's father in the liner notes of the cast recording – Larson had been trying to establish himself in theater since the early 1980s.
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Harry Warren Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe". He wrote the music for the first blockbuster film musical, "42nd Street", choreographed by Busby Berkeley, with whom he would collaborate on many musical films.
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An American in Paris An American in Paris is a jazz-influenced orchestral piece by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928. Inspired by the time Gershwin had spent in Paris, it evokes the sights and energy of the French capital in the 1920s and is one of his best-known compositions.
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Aaron Novik Aaron Novik (born July 21, 1974) is an American composer, clarinetist and bandleader based in San Francisco.  He is involved with the Bay Area Improv Scene and is a member of Edmund Welles The Bass Clarinet Quartet which was a 2004 recipient of a New Works Creation and Presentation grant from Chamber Music America. Novik has appeared in San Francisco and New York City with guitarist Fred Frith re-creating his 1980 avant-garde dance album, "Gravity".
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Rand Steiger Rand Steiger (born June 18, 1957 in New York City) is an American composer, conductor, and pedagogue.
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Charles Strouse Charles Strouse (born June 7, 1928) is an American composer and lyricist best known for writing the music to the musicals "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Annie", amongst others.
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Jack Curtis Dubowsky Jack Curtis Dubowsky is an American composer who has scored independent feature films and composed music for television, advertising, and concert performance. His music has been performed by the San Francisco Choral Artists, the Lesbian/Gay Chorus of San Francisco, the Snopea Chamber Ensemble, the Organic Sound Experiment, and many others. He has received grants from Meet the Composer (1998), the Zellerbach Family Fund (1997), and the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library (1997), and a "Special Recognition of a Score" jury award from the Fire Island Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (2002) for his work on the film "Under One Roof". Dubowsky works through his music house, De Stijl Music.
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Christopher North (composer) Christopher North Renquist (born February 6, 1969), known professionally as Christopher North, is an American composer, songwriter, and musician.
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Clark Gayton Clark Gayton is an American multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer and musicians' rights advocate.
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Terry Lowry Terry Lowry (born January 17, 1974, in Albany, Georgia) is an American composer, pianist and conductor. He is the Conductor and Music Director of the Carroll Symphony Orchestra, in Carrollton, Georgia. He is the composer of over 200 works. He maintains an active piano recital schedule, performing throughout the United States, Canada and Europe each year. His recital programs include works from the standard literature, his own compositions, and improvisations on themes provided by the audience. In 2007 Lowry released an album of original piano compositions featuring his large, 14 movement work "Stations of the Cross". In 2011 he released two albums: "Da Capo" - a collection of piano works by Mozart, Chopin, Debussy, Satie and Scriabin; and an album with CSO Concertmaster Edward Eanes featuring Beethoven's Violin Sonata no. 4, as well as works for piano solo (Moonlight and Appassionata sonatas, and the Fantasia, op. 77).
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Jack Clift Jack Clift (born September 15, 1955, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is an American Composer and Music Producer. He is best known for his hybrid soundscapes combining elements of American folk music, jazz and bluegrass music with traditional instruments and singers from the many countries he has visited.
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Matthew Aucoin Matthew Aucoin (born 1990) is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and writer best known for his operas. Aucoin has received commissions from the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the American Repertory Theater, the Peabody Essex Museum, Harvard University, and NPR's "This American Life". As a young musical virtuoso, Aucoin has been compared to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Richard Wagner, and Leonard Bernstein. Additionally, he is the youngest assistant conductor in the history of the Metropolitan Opera. He was appointed as Los Angeles Opera's first-ever Artist-in-Residence in 2016.
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Chuck Philips Charles Alan "Chuck" Philips (born October 15, 1952) is an American writer and investigative journalist. In 1999, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting with Michael Hiltzik of the "Los Angeles Times" for a year-long series that exposed corruption in the music business.
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Larry Hochman Larry Hochman (born November 21, 1953 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American orchestrator and composer. He has won four Emmy Awards for his original music on the TV series "The Wonder Pets", and a Tony Award for his orchestrations for "The Book of Mormon".
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Alan Bern Alan Bern (Bloomington, Indiana, 1955) is an American composer, pianist, accordionist, educator and cultural activist, based in Berlin since 1987. He is the founding artistic director of Yiddish Summer Weimar and the Other Music Academy (OMA). He is internationally recognized for his contributions to the research, dissemination and creative renewal of Jewish music with Brave Old World, The Other Europeans and the Semer Ensemble, among others. He is the creator of Present-Time Composition, a musical and educational approach informed by cognitive science that integrates the methods of improvisation and composition. In 2016 he received the Weimar Prize in recognition of major cultural contributions to the city of Weimar.
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Jay Alan Yim Jay Alan Yim (born April 24, 1958) is an American composer and recipient of a 1994 Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Leo Ornstein Leo Ornstein (born "Yuda-Leyb Gornshteyn"; c. December 11, 1895 – February 24, 2002) (also Лев Орнштейн, Lev Ornchteïn) was a Russian-American composer and pianist of the early twentieth century. His performances of works by avant-garde composers and his own innovative and even shocking pieces made him a cause célèbre on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Jim Steinman James Richard Steinman (born November 1, 1947) is an American composer, lyricist, and Grammy Award-winning record producer responsible for many hit songs. He has also worked as an arranger, pianist and singer. His work has included songs in the adult contemporary, rock and roll, dance, pop, musical theater and film score genres. Beginning his career in musical theater, Steinman's most notable work in the area includes lyrics for "Whistle Down the Wind" and music for "Tanz der Vampire".
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Scott Mebus Scott Mebus is American novelist, composer and playwright. He has written two adult novels, "Booty Nomad" and "The Big Happy", and the children's urban fantasy series "Gods of Manhattan." His musical, "Tarnish", played in the NY International Fringe Festival in 2001. He also composed the theme song for the Discovery Channel Kids program, "Outward Bound".
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Roger Sessions Roger Huntington Sessions (December 28, 1896March 16, 1985) was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music.
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George Walker (composer) George Theophilus Walker (born June 27, 1922) is an African-American composer, the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He received the Pulitzer for his work "Lilacs" in 1996.