About Lehman Engel
A. Lehman Engel (September 14, 1910 – August 29, 1982) was an American composer for television, film, and operas and a conductor of Broadway musicals and operas.He was nominated five times and won twice a Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director, a category which no longer exists. == Work in opera, theatre, television and films == Engel worked in various positions on television specials. He was the composer and conductor of the music for the famed 1954 television production of Shakespeare's Macbeth, starring Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson. However, he did not work on the 1960 remake starring the same two actors. He was the conductor of the television version of Leonard Bernstein's Wonderful Town (1958) (TV). In the preceding years, he also conducted the Hallmark Hall of Fame's productions of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (1956), Twelfth Night (1957), and The Tempest (1960) and the Broadway musicals Shangri-La (1956) and Li'l Abner (1956). He also musically directed and vocally arranged the 1959 musical Take Me Along. Lehman Engel worked as musical director for the St. Louis Municipal Opera for several years before moving to New York to conduct on Broadway. Engel also composed the music for the 1939 Broadway revival of Hamlet, starring Maurice Evans; the original 1948 stage production of Maxwell Anderson's Anne of the Thousand Days, starring Rex Harrison and Joyce Redman; and for the 1960 play There Was a Little Girl, starring Jane Fonda and Dean Jones.
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