Renowned Broadway composer Maury Yeston adds another milestone to his career with the screen adaptation of his musical Nine, produced by The Weinstein Company and opening later this year with a star studded cast led by director Rob Marshall. Yeston has received Tony awards for Best Score for the Broadway musicals Titanic and Nine and was nominated for a Tony and 2 Drama Desk Awards for Grand Hotel. His musical Phantom has been an enormous success in the United States and in Europe.
Yeston's musical versatility ranges from his cello concerto (premiered by Yo Yo Ma) to a concept album for the musical Goya-A Life In Song (featuring Placido Domingo and Dionne Warwick on the original, English-language recording, and Gloria Estefan on the Spanish version). Barbra Streisand's cover of "Till I Loved You," from Goya, became a Top 40 hit. Yeston's An American Cantata-2000 Voices, a choral symphony commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra,was premiered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on July 1, 2000.
Mr. Yeston has this to say about Cherry Lane: "Every once in a great while, a music company comes along that is as committed to the music, as to the artists who affiliate themselves with it -- an institution that doesn't lose its soul because its strength flows from the talent, character and integrity of its people. Such a company is Cherry Lane. Beyond the functions of licensing, protecting and disseminating the work of its affiliated writers, no company does more to archive in print, to treat with respect, and to take seriously the musical work itself and its writer, which is the fundamental starting point from which all else in the music business is derived."