David Shire
David Shire was born in Buffalo, New York, United States on July 3rd, 1937 and is the Composer. At the age of 87, David Shire biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American singer and producer of stage musicals, film, and television scores.
The soundtracks to Pelham's 1976 film The Big Bus, The Conversation and All the President's Men, and parts of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack such as "Manhattan Skyline" are among his best-known works.
His other contributions include the score of Return to Oz (the "sequel-in-part" of The Wizard of Oz), as well as the stage musical scores of Baby, Big, Nearest Than Ever, and Starting Here, Starting Now.
Didi Conn, a French actress, is married to Shire.
Personal life
Shire was married to actress Talia Shire, with whom he has one son, screenwriter Matthew Shire, from 1970 to 1980.
Since 1984, he has been married to actress Didi Conn. Daniel (born October 1992), who was diagnosed with autism, has a son.
Education and early career
Esther Miriam (née Sheinberg), and Buffalo society band leader and piano teacher Irving Daniel Shire were born in Buffalo, New York. His family was Jewish. At the Nichols School, his secondary education was completed. Richard Maltby, Jr., a long-serving theater collaborator, wrote two musicals, Cyrano and Grand Tour, which were produced by the Yale Dramatic Association, where he performed two musicals, Cyrano and Grand Tour. Shire was also co-fronted a jazz group at school, the Shire-Fogg Quintet, and a Phi Beta Kappa honors scholar with a double major in English and music. He was a member of the Pundits and Elihu, and he received a degree in 1959 in magna cum laude.
Shire began a semester of graduate study at Brandeis University (where he was the first Eddie Fisher Fellow) and six months in the National Guard infantry, focusing as a dance class pianist, stage production, and society band pianist while still working with Maltby on musicals. The Sap of Life, One Sheridan Square Theater in Greenwich Village, was their first off-Broadway performance. In 1963, he co-wrote "Washington Square" with Bob Goldstein.