Hershy Kay

Hershy Kay (1919-1981) was an American composer, arranger, and orchestrator.

The son of a Philadelphia printer, Kay started arranging music to escape playing the cello. He studied cello at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute and played in various pit orchestras. Kay began getting his first arranging commissions in the early 1940s, and by 1944 he was arranging for Broadway productions.

Partial Work List

* Cakewalk (arrangements of music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk for New York City Ballet)
* Grande Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra (reconstruction and arrangement of music by Gottschalk for NYCB)
* Western Symphony (arrangements of traditional American melodies for NYCB)
* Union Jack (arrangements of traditional British melodies for NYCB)
* Stars and Stripes (arrangements of John Phillip Sousa for NYCB)
* Who Cares? (for NYCB)
* The Concert (for NYCB)
* On the Town (original 1944 orchestrations, co-orchestrator with composer Leonard Bernstein)
* Candide (original 1956 orchestrations, co-orchestrator with composer Leonard Bernstein); and 1971 revival orchestrations without Bernstein)
* Once Upon a Mattress
* A Chorus Line
* Peter Pan
* Barnum
* Evita

See also

NYCB repertory "including links to individual ballets"

External links

* [http://www.nycballet.com New York City Ballet home page]

* [http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20613F93C5C0C778CDDAB0994D9484D81 NY Times obituary by Theodre W. Libbey, Jr., December 4, 1981]