{"id":33947,"date":"2012-08-08T05:04:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T05:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/marvin_hamlisch_dies_at_68_sudden_brief_illness_halted_busy_life\/"},"modified":"2012-08-08T05:04:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T05:04:41","slug":"marvin_hamlisch_dies_at_68_sudden_brief_illness_halted_busy_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33947","title":{"rendered":"Marvin Hamlisch dies at 68: Sudden, brief illness halted busy life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marvin Hamlisch, the stage and film composer who created the memorable songs for &#8220;A Chorus Line,&#8221; has died at 68. The composer died on Monday in Los Angeles after collapsing from a brief illness, his family said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most decorated composers in entertainment, Hamlisch had won a Tony Award, three Academy Awards, four Emmy Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for drama.<\/p>\n<p>Hamlisch was still active just weeks ago. In his role as lead conductor of the Pasadena Pops, he conducted a July 21 concert at the Los Angeles Arboretum with Michael Feinstein.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/culture\/la-et-cm-marvin-hamlisch-is-dead-at-68-20120807,0,5202065.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marvin Hamlisch, the stage and film composer who created the memorable songs for &#8220;A Chorus Line,&#8221; has died at 68. The composer died on Monday in Los Angeles after collapsing from a brief illness, his family said in a statement.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33947\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,438,132,184,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-death-burial-funerals","category-music","category-parish-ministry","category-theatredramaplays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}