September 8 - Howard Dietz (The Musical Birthday Series, 4th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for September 8th are here: Willem Pijper (2019), Antonín Dvořák (2020), and Peter Maxwell Davies (2021)

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Howard Dietz (8 September 1896 – 30 July 1983) was an American lyricist, publicist, and librettist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, the creators (lyricist and composer respectively) of the durable standards “Dancing in the Dark,” “That’s Entertainment,” “You and the Night and the Music,” and “I Guess I’ll Have To Change My Plan,” collaborated on 11 Broadway shows, most of them revues and most of them successful, over the course of 34 years. – masterworksbroadway.com

Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz

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