Glen Paul Roven was an American two-time Emmy winning composer, lyricist, conductor and producer.
18 Facts About Glen Roven
1.
2.
Glen Roven composed the music to "The Hillary Speeches" setting two of Mrs Clinton's speeches to music which streamed opposite Trump's inauguration and featured opera stars Patricia Racette, Isabel Leonard, Nathan Gunn, Lawrence Brownlee, Mathew Polenzani, Kyle Ketelson, and twenty-three others.
3.
Glen Roven was creating the Poetry Curriculum for K-6 for the United States Public School System.
4.
Glen Roven was working on a musical for Netflix written by and starring Dolly Parton.
5.
Glen Roven's family's own published death notice states that he was born July 13,1957, while the New York Times' obituary of Roven gives a birth date of July 13,1958.
6.
At 19, Glen Roven was the original musical director of Sugar Babies on Broadway starring Ann Miller and Mickey Rooney.
7.
Glen Roven arranged Patti LuPone's one-woman Broadway show and was the co-musical supervisor for Liza Minnelli's, Stepping Out, at Radio City Music Hall.
8.
Glen Roven composed the scores for Larry Gelbart's Mastergate, and Christopher Isherwood's A Meeting by the River, on Broadway, and Got to Get Away.
9.
Glen Roven conducted President Bill Clinton's two inaugural concerts as well as President George W Bush's two inaugural concerts.
10.
Glen Roven conducted and arranged Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.
11.
Glen Roven conducted the TV Specials, Night of 100 Stars, Night of 100 Stars II, and Night of 100 Stars III.
12.
Glen Roven made his Israeli conducting debut in 2001 conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
13.
Glen Roven has conducted the National Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the IKO, the Munich Philharmonic, and the Radio Luxembourg Orchestra.
14.
Glen Roven translated Mahler's Ruckert Lieder, Songs of a Wayfarer, Kindertotenlieder and Des Knaben Wunderhorn.
15.
Glen Roven has translated Schubert's Wintereisse and all of Hugo Wolf's Italian Songbook.
16.
Glen Roven wrote the theme for the 1990 television series, The Baby-Sitters Club.
17.
Glen Roven has written articles for The New York Times, The LA Review of Books, Broadwayworld.
18.
On Wednesday, July 25,2018, Glen Roven died at the age of 61.