Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

Biography


Early life
Hamlisch was born in Manhattan to Viennese-born Jewish parents Lilly (née Schachter) and Max Hamlisch. S. Hamlisch and Richard Rodgers are the only two people to have won this series of awards and a Pulitzer Prize.

He was one of only eleven EGOTs – those who have been awarded an Emmy Grammy Oscar and Tony. Hamlisch also won two Golden Globes. Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2 1944 – August 6 2012) was an American composer and conductor.