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- Kostal died of a heart attack in Studio City, California. At the time of his death he was a widower (his wife Sylvia had died the year before), and president of the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers. In 2004 he was named a Disney Legend in recognition of his contributions to films released by the studio.
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Death. Kostal died of a heart attack in Studio City, California. At the time of his death he was a widower (his wife Sylvia had died the year before), and president of the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers. In 2004 he was named a Disney Legend in recognition of his contributions to films released by the studio.
Dec 1, 1994 · Kostal, who also won a Grammy for “The Sound of Music” album and a television Emmy as arranger and conductor on “The Garry Moore Show,” died Nov. 23 of a heart attack at his Studio City home....
Dec 2, 1994 · Irwin Kostal, an orchestrator and conductor who won Academy Awards for his work on the movies "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music" as well as Emmy and Grammy Awards, died on Nov. 23 at...
Irwin Kostal passed away on November 23, 1994, in Studio City, California, while serving as president of the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers. Award-winning conductor and orchestrator who brought his innate musical genius to many Disney classic motion pictures such as Mary Poppins.
Richard Morton Sherman (June 12, 1928 – May 25, 2024) was an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Robert B. Sherman.According to the official Walt Disney Company website and independent fact checkers, "The Sherman Brothers were responsible for more motion picture musical song scores than any other songwriting team in film history."
Irwin Kostal was born on October 1, 1911 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a composer, known for West Side Story (1961), Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965). He died on November 23, 1994 in Studio City, California, USA.
West Side Story. West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents . Inspired by William Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet, the story is set in the mid-1950s in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, then a multiracial, blue-collar ...
