Norman Curtis (composer)

Norman Curtis (born 1933) is a New York-based American pianist and composer.

Works

Revues:

• If We Grow Up^[1][2]
• Freedom Calling 1967^[3][4]

Recordings

• Songs of Innocence album with soprano Peggy Smith 1960^[5][6]

References

1. Roscoe Orman Sesame Street Dad: Evolution of an Actor 2006 1592992102 p.13 "She and her husband, the gifted composer-musician Norman Curtis, recruited me and others among my 1962 graduating class at A&D to join the cast of their topical musical revue If We Grow Up."
2. Norman Curtis - REC Music Foundation Composer: Norman Curtis (b. 1933). Alphabetic listing of art song and choral settings in the database.
3. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series Library of Congress. Copyright Office - 1967 - Page 183 FREEDOM CALLING; w Patricia Taylor Curtis, m Norman Curtis. Score (27 p.) © Norman Curtis ft Patricia Taylor Curtis;
4. The New Yorker 1968 - Volume 44, Page 6 "Most of the music is by Norman Curtis and most of the words are by Patricia Taylor Curtis."
5. Donald Fitch Blake Set to Music: A Bibliography of Musical Settings of the Poems p.55 "Mad Blake; a musical, book by Elyse Curtis, music by Elyse and Norman Curtis"
6. The Triangle of Mu Phi Epsilon 1959 " Peggy will sing selections from the new song cycle "Songs of Innocence" by Norman Curtis, with the composer at the piano. A capacity audience is expected at the Lyon-Healy Concert Hall."