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`My Fair Lady' Composer Frederick Loewe Dies; Teamed With Lerner
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The Washington Post
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February 15, 1988| Author:
Martin Weil
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Frederick Loewe, 86, a European-born musical prodigy who infused
his lively rhythms into the American lifeblood as the composer of "My
Fair Lady," "Brigadoon," "Camelot" and other Broadway and Hollywood
musical classics, died yesterday at a hospital in Palm Springs,
Calif.
Paired with the late Alan Jay Lerner, who wrote the words to Mr.
Loewe's music, the composer set a nation and much of the world to
humming such tunes as "The Rain in Spain," from "My Fair Lady," "If
Ever I Should L...
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