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Thomas Z. Shepard is a prolific record producer who is best known for his recordings of Broadway musicals, including the works of Stephen Sondheim. Shepard is also a composer, conductor, music arranger and pianist. He has won twelve Grammy Awards and produced the original cast recordings of many of the Sondheim musicals, including ''Sweeney Todd'', ''Company'' and ''Sunday in the Park with George'', among others. He also produced the original cast recordings of ''1776'', ''La Cage aux Folles'' and ''42nd Street'', among over a hundred others. He has produced hundreds of classical music and popular music recordings. ==Biography== Shepard attended The Juilliard School's preparatory division, training in piano and composition, leaving after his third year, in 1949. He then attended Oberlin College, again studying piano and, privately, composition, receiving his B.A., Music, in 1958. He then continued his studies in 1959 at the Yale Graduate School of Music.〔("Thomas Z. Shepard" ). Masterworks on Broadway, accessed October 25, 2010〕 Beginning in 1960, Shepard worked for fourteen years for Columbia Records, eventually becoming co-director of CBS Masterworks. He joined RCA Records in 1974, where he was Division Vice President of RCA Red Seal, responsible for recording, signing and marketing of the label, until 1986.〔(Thomas Z. Shepard ) at the SondheimGuide, accessed February 9, 2011〕 He was then Vice President: Classical and Theatrical until 1989 for MCA Records in New York, where he created their classical and theatrical record line. Shepard then became an independent producer, wrote, narrated and produced ''The WQXR/MCA Classics Listener's Guide'' (1988; music appreciation recordings) and has lectured on musical theatre and classical music.〔〔(Bio of Shepard at BroadwayWorld.com )〕 Shepard has produced numerous classical and Broadway cast albums, winning 12 Grammy Awards, including four with songs by Stephen Sondheim.〔 In 1984, he received the NARAS Governors' Award for Lifetime Achievement,〔 and in 1986, he won a Drama Desk Special Award "for preserving musical theater heritage on record."〔(Shepard's Drama Desk Award )〕 Shepard received two Emmy Award nominations for songs he composed for the PBS television show ''Between the Lions'' (2007). He has also produced live concert events, most recently ''My Fair Lady'' in 2007, and ''Camelot'' in 2008, with the New York Philharmonic, broadcast on PBS as part of the ''Live from Lincoln Center'' series.〔(Stempleski, Susan. Review of ''Camelot'' (classicalsource.com) )〕 Shepard has arranged music and conducted for Anna Moffo,〔''Wishing You a Merry Christmas'', with Moffo and Tucker, CBS SBR 235161〕 Richard Kiley, the Norman Luboff Choir and Richard Tucker,〔e.g., Richard Tucker, (''The Soul of Italy'' ), tracks 13-24, Sony Classical (1999), CD SMK 66309; and ''Hatikvah! Richard Tucker sings great Jewish Favorites'', with the Norman Luboff Choir, Columbia (1969), cat. no. MS 7217〕 among others. He performed as a pianist at various concert venues, and his recording of classical piano pieces and improvisations, "Love on a Stormy Weekend", was released by Planet Earth Recording Co. in 1998.〔PE-CD-2418. See ("Tom (Thomas Z.) Shepard" ), Planet Earth Recording Co., accessed October 25, 2010〕 Shepard is the composer of five musicals and five operas, among other pieces.〔The musicals are ''When Time Stands Still'', with a libretto by Tony Musante, produced at Oberlin College in 1957; ''Haircut'', with writers Larry Sigman and Danny Silverstein, based on a Ring Lardner short story (Oberlin 1958); ''The Snow Queen'' (1963, after Hans Christian Andersen; Richard Tucker recorded the opening song, "When You're Young") and ''Blaming it on You'' (1970; Joan Morris and Bill Bolcom recorded one of the songs, "Sweet Mary Go to the Movies"), both with a libretto by Charles Burr and yet to be produced; and ''The Horse's Mouth'' (1960s, based on the novel by Joyce Carey, lyrics by Shepard, no book written). His first opera was ''The Last of the Just'', with a libretto by Gerald Walker, based on the novel by Andre Schwarz-Bart (1980)〕 The operas include ''That Pig of a Molette'' (1988) and ''A Question of Faith'' (1990), both with libretti by Sheldon Harnick, which were presented as a double-bill under the title ''Love in Two Countries'' at St. Peter's Church Theatre, in New York City, by Musical Theater Works in 1991;〔Simon, John. ("Theatre: The Belle of Kenya" ), ''New York Magazine'', April 15, 1991, pp. 66–67〕 and a score for the lost music of ''Thespis'' (2008), which has been called "a love letter to 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas Z. Shepard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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