Education
Juilliard School.
Juilliard School.
He has written biography or criticism about Noël Coward, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Vivien Leigh, Edgar Allan Poe, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret, Oscar Hammerstein II, Alan Jay Lerner, and Jerry Herman. In addition from teaching songcraft in a Carnegie Hall studio, he also wrote books about the creation of music and musicals.