Lennie Hayton

Composer + Conductor + Pianist

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Born Feb 14, 1908

Died Apr 24, 1971

Leonard George "Lennie" Hayton was an American Jewish composer, conductor and arranger. His trademark was the wearing of a captain’s hat, which he always wore at a rakish angle. He was initially a pianist in jazz groups led by Frankie Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke… Read More

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Lena Horne
Married 1946 - 1971

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Lena Horne, Singer Who Blazed Trail To Hollywood, Dies At 92
NYTimes - May 10, 2010

Lena Horne, who broke new ground for black performers when she signed a long-term contract with a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night in Manhattan. She was 92. Her death, at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, was announced by her son-in-law, Kevin Buckley. She lived
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NYTimes - Jul 19, 2009

STORMY WEATHER The Life of Lena Horne By James Gavin Illustrated. 598 pp. Atria Books. $27 Inside her, there were two Lena Hornes: the one who fiercely asserted herself, and the one who belittled and berated herself. Viewed from the outside, there were two more: the one who had an impressive career and was a seemingly model freedom fighter; but
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The Voice And The Spirit Of Lena Horne
NYTimes - Nov 24, 1996

LENA Horne has mellowed. The old resentments still crop up (the years on the nightclub circuit that she hated; the indignities she suffered in Hollywood; her reputation as a dazzling but shallow beauty). But at 79, she has reached an age at which acceptance comes more readily. ''I'm not afraid to be old,'' she says. Letting go of painful memories
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Pop Music; A Legend Lays Bare Her Hurt
NYTimes - Jun 05, 1994

IN MAY 1993, LENA HORNE MADE A RARE PUBLIC appearance at a party for the 25th anniversary of the Studio Museum in Harlem. Then 75, she seemed eager to speak with anyone who approached her -- until somebody asked if she would be singing after dinner. "I'm too old to be singing," she blurted out. "You don't keep a voice all your life. When I had to
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Timeline

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CHILDHOOD

1908 Birth Born in 1908.

THIRTIES

1940 32 Years Old 1 More Event

Hayton also co-arranged the Hoagy Carmichael composition "Stardust" with Artie Shaw, for Shaw's recording of it in 1940, for Bluebird records.

1947 39 Years Old … Hayton married Lena Horne in December 1947 in Paris. Throughout the marriage, Hayton also acted as Horne’s music director. Facing the stresses and pressures of an interracial relationship, which was still relatively rare in that time period, their marriage lasted until his death at 63 from a heart attack in 1971. … Read More

FORTIES

1950 42 Years Old Hayton won the Academy Award for music for On the Town in 1950.

1952 44 Years Old Lennie Hayton also arranged the music for Singin' in the Rain in 1952.

LATE ADULTHOOD

1968 60 Years Old Hayton notched up two more nominations - one in 1968 for the unsuccessful Julie Andrews musical Star! and his last the following year for the Barbra Streisand vehicle Hello, Dolly!, which brought him his second and final Oscar.

1970 62 Years Old In 1970, Hayton arranged Frank Sinatra's first attempt at the George Harrison composition Something.

1971 63 Years Old Always a heavy drinker and smoker, Hayton died of heart problems while separated from Horne, in Palm Springs, California in 1971.

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