Career
He also collaborated with Aldridge on the oratorio Parables. In his compositions for the musical Suenos he found an inspiration in Hispanic rhythms. Garfein also composed the music and libretto for an opera based on the Tom Stoppard play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
Garfein"s parents are actress Carroll Baker and film director Jack Garfein, a Czechoslovakian Jew, who survived the Holocaust.