Career
He was personal pianist for lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and director Joshua Logan. He wrote special material for Radio City Music Hall, Martin Charnin"s Upstairs At O"Neal"s, numerous cabaret performers, and two scores for the American Methodist Bicentennial A Church Is Born (Carnegie Hall, 1985) and Aldersgate 88 (Avery Fisher Hall, 1988). He appeared with Betty Comden and Adolph Green on Broadway and thereafter in many concert engagements.
He conducted the New York companies of the Drama Critics Award musical Your Own Thing, the 1986 Broadway revival of Oh Coward!, Joshua Logan"s remounting of Annie Get Your Gun, The Chosen, Red White and Maddox and Dancing In The Dark, a revue of the songs of Dietz and Schwartz, produced by Arthur Schwartz for the Manhattan Theater Club.
In 1996-1997, her toured the world with Marianne Faithfull in a Kurt Weill evening. His Civil Defense with Mississippi Faithfull, 20th Century Blues, was recorded live at the New Morning Club and released by Radio Corporation of America Victor.
As a composer, Paul Trueblood"s work was heard at Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and in every major New York cabaret venue. He conducted two CDs with Metropolitan Opera star Youngok Shin (Samsung Classics), and with Broadway legend Sally Anne Howes, and was the musical director for young German chanteuse Micaela Leon.