Marvin Hamlisch to perform with USC Symphony April 30

Internationally renowned composer and performer Marvin Hamlisch will appear with the USC Symphony to perform a special, one-time concert at 7:30 p.m. April 30 in the Koger Center. Music from a variety of Tony Award-winning Broadway shows and Oscar-winning films will be performed, including songs from A Chorus Line and The Way We Were.

The event is part of the Columbia Festival of the Arts.

As a composer, Hamlisch has won three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, one Tony, and three Golden Globe Awards. He is the composer of the musical A Chorus Line, which received the Pulitzer Prize.

A graduate of Juilliard and Queens College, Hamlisch has composed more than 40 motion picture scores, including his Oscar-winning score and song for The Way We Were, and his adaptation of Scott Joplin's music for The Sting, for which he received an Oscar. Other movie scores include Sophie's Choice, Ordinary People, Three Men and a Baby, and Ice Castles.

Hamlisch was musical director and arranger of Barbra Streisand's 1994 concert tour in the United States and England, and the television special, "Barbra Streisand: The Concert," for which he received two Emmys. He also served as musical director for Streisand's Millennium concerts.

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