{"id":52536,"date":"2019-12-28T23:34:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T05:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=52536"},"modified":"2019-12-28T23:34:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T05:34:51","slug":"jerry-herman-composer-of-hello-dolly-and-other-broadway-hits-dies-at-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/jerry-herman-composer-of-hello-dolly-and-other-broadway-hits-dies-at-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Herman, composer of \u2018Hello Dolly!\u2019 and other Broadway hits, dies at 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Composer Jerry Herman, who wrote music and lyrics for Broadway hits including \u201cHello, Dolly!\u201d and \u201cLa Cage aux Folles,\u201d died at the age of 88.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52537\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jerry_Herman_2010.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52537\" class=\"wp-image-52537 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jerry_Herman_2010-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jerry_Herman_2010-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jerry_Herman_2010.jpg 341w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/286;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52537\" class=\"wp-image-52537 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jerry_Herman_2010-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jerry_Herman_2010-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Jerry_Herman_2010.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-52537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry Herman at the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony in which he was inducted in 2010. (Photo via Wikimedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Herman, who was diagnosed with HIV in the 1980s, died in Miami on Thursday of pulmonary complications, his goddaughter told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>One of his best-known songs was \u201cI Am What I Am,\u201d from \u201cLa Cage aux Folles,\u201d which became an LGBT anthem.<\/p>\n<p>Herman, who won two Tony Awards and two Grammys, was raised by Jewish parents in Jersey City, N.J.<\/p>\n<p>He said in interviews that Irving Berlin, the Russian-American Jewish composer, had been a strong influence and inspiration on him. Seeing Berlin\u2019s \u201cAnnie Get Your Gun\u201d had set him on the path to Broadway, Herman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI walked out of that theatre singing all those wonderful Berlin songs and, from that moment on, that\u2019s all I wanted to do with my life,\u201d Herman, who was born in New York, told NPR in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHello, Dolly!,\u201d the story of a matchmaker trying to find a partner for an unmarried rich man, became his first major success in 1964.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Jerry%20Herman%2C%20composer%20of%20%E2%80%98Hello%20Dolly%21%E2%80%99%20and%20other%20Broadway%20hits%2C%20dies%20at%2088\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7122],"tags":[10404,8790,8795,8100,8788,163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52538,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52536\/revisions\/52538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}