About Lehman Engel
A. Lehman Engel was an American composer for television, film, and operas and a conductor of Broadway musicals and operas. He also founded and personally supervised the Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop, a branch of the BMI workshop, originally based at the Performing Arts Center of the Los Angeles County Music Center in Los Angeles. He won six Tony Awards and was nominated for four more. The category for which he won and was nominated no longer exists. Engel also conducted the first 3-LP version of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, a 1951 Columbia Masterworks Records album that was highly acclaimed, but was advertised as featuring the complete opera when it did not.
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