Hershy Kay(1919-1981)

Hershy Kay was born on 17 November 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Hershy was a composer, known for Bite the Bullet (1975), Center Stage (2000) and The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959). Hershy died on 2 December 1981 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.

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6.1

Great Performances
8.0
TV Series
- orchestrator
- 2005
Candide
8.6
TV Movie
- orchestrator
- 1991
Great Performances: Dance in America
7.4
TV Series
- for Western Symphony
- 1990
Candide
7.9
TV Movie
- orchestrator
- 1988
Barnum!
7.5
TV Movie
- orchestrator
- 1986
Live from Lincoln Center
8.7
TV Series
- orchestrator
- 1986
Bite the Bullet
6.6
- orchestration
- 1975
The Victor Borge Show
7.6
TV Series
- composer: musical piece
- 1963
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years
9.0
TV Series
- orchestrator
- 1961
Girl of the Night
6.8
- orchestrator
- 1960
The St. Louis Bank Robbery
5.8
- conductor
- orchestrator
- 1959
South Seas Adventure
7.0
- orchestrator (uncredited)
- 1958
The King and Four Queens
6.1
- orchestrator
- 1956
Man with the Gun
6.7
- orchestrations
- 1955
Producers' Showcase
7.4
TV Series
- music arranger (as Hershey Kay)
- 1955

Alternative name
- Hershey Kay
Height
- 4′ 11″ (1.50 m)
Born
- November 17, 1919
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
- December 2, 1981
- Danbury, Connecticut, USA
Other works
He orchestrated several of Columbia Records' studio recordings of Broadway musical classics, such as the 1963 recording of "The Student Prince". Orchestrated some of the piano music of Louis Marie Gottschalk.

Trivia
Orchestrator of several classical music pieces, some not originally composed for orchestra, and co-orchestrator of several Broadway shows, most notably some of Leonard Bernstein's, including "Candide", "On the Town", and the 1950 semi-musical Broadway revival of "Peter Pan", starring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff.