David Lee Shire was born on July 3,1937 and is an American songwriter and composer of stage musicals, film and television scores.
12 Facts About David Shire
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David Shire co-fronted a jazz group at school, the David Shire-Fogg Quintet, and was a Phi Beta Kappa honors student, with a double major in English and music.
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David Shire co-wrote The Village Stompers' "Washington Square" with Bob Goldstein in 1963.
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David Shire began scoring for television in the 1960s and made the leap to scoring feature films in the early 1970s.
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David Shire was then married to actress Talia Shire, for whose brother Francis Ford Coppola he scored The Conversation, perhaps his best known score, in 1974.
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On some cues, David Shire took the taped sounds of the piano and distorted them in different ways to create alternative sonic textures to round out the score.
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David Shire intermittently conducted and arranged for her, and over a period of several years she recorded five of his songs.
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David Shire has conducted many orchestras, either for film scores or for pop concerts, including the London Symphony Orchestra, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Munich Symphony.
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David Shire wrote and composed many songs for the hit PBS children's TV series Shining Time Station, which starred his wife Didi Conn along with comedian George Carlin.
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David Shire serves on the council of the Dramatists Guild of America and is a trustee of the Rockland Conservatory of Music and the Palisades Library.
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David Shire was inducted into the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame in 2006.
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David Shire has been married to actress Didi Conn since 1984.