Backstage at the Y - Larry Hochman

Enter the YM-YWHA of North Jersey, One Pike Drive, Wayne, through its Backstage Door, pass the dressing rooms, wander in the wings, say hello to the stagehand, step onto the stage, and finally be seated to become part of an intimate audience treated to wonderful music.  Then, after the show, enjoy refreshments in the Green Room.  The setting alone makes this Series unique, but it is the performing artists who make it special.

Our final performer for the Series is Larry Hochman, conductor, composer and orchestrator who will demonstrate how he composes and orchestrates for performers (e.g. Barry Manilow, Betty Buckley, Paul McCartney, Naomi Miller); the Movies (e.g. The Informant, Yad Vashem); and the Broadway theater (e.g. Spamalot, Fiddler, Addams Family, Scottsboro Boys, & Book of Mormon, a new musical scheduled to open this Marc.  He has received three TONY nominations for Best Orchestrations: Monty Python's Spamalot (2005), Fiddler on the Roof (2004) and A Class Act (2001). He is the lead composer for Nickelodeon's hit series, The Wonder Pets, for which he has received four EMMY awards. He composed additional music for Disney's Little Mermaid II and composed and arranged music for two episodes of Spielberg's Amazing Stories, the TV documentaries Views of a Vanishing Frontier and Yad Vashem, as well as the films Not for Publication, The Watchman, and Alaska: Spirit of the Wild (Omnimax film). He studied theory and composition at Manhattan School of Music (B.A.), Eastman School of Music and Mannes College of Music with such noted composers as Joseph Schwantner (Pulitzer Prize winner), Benjamin Lees, Nicholas Flagello and Ludmila Ulehla.

His orchestral work In Memoriam received its premiere in Berlin (1994) at a Holocaust commemorative concert and had its US Premiere with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra under Richard Auldon Clark. It is published by Edward B. Marks and available on CD (and on rental through Theodore Presser).

Other original music includes many themes for CNN, AMC, Romance Classics and Nickelodeon, many of which are broadcast daily. His scores for the Carlin Recorded Music Library, including American Impressions and The Hollywood Project, have been widely used for broadcasts in every major country. Other original music for orchestra is featured on Millenium Mornings (Cats Paw Records).

Orchestrations for 18 films include Marvin Hamlisch's The Informant!, Disney's Lady and the Tramp II, Once Upon a Mattress, Dead of Winter, and On the Wing (IMAX).