Background
Hovey was born in New York City in 1920.
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Serge Hovey
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He studied piano with Edward Steuermann and composition with Hanns Eisler and Arnold Schoenberg.
Career
He was musical director for the first American production of Bertolt Brecht"s of Galileo in Los Angeles in 1947. In 1976, when Jean Redpath began recording the complete songs of Robert Burns, Hovey researched and arranged 324 songs for the project but died before the project could be completed, leaving only seven of the planned twenty-two volumes. Hovey died in Pacific Palisades, California, after a twenty year struggle with Lou Gehrig"s disease.
