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Rob Fisher

ROB FISHER is a recognized authority on American music of all kinds. His particular specialty has been conducting classic musical theater. Fisher was music director and conductor of the Tony-honored Encores! series at New York’s City Center from its inception in 1994 through 2005. In 1997 he was presented the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Special Achievement for his work on Encores! The series has spawned many recordings for which he has served as the conductor and associate producer. The Broadway hits Chicago and Wonderful Town began at the Encores! series. Fisher was instrumental in their successful transfers, and he remains supervising music director of companies of Chicago around the world

Dick Hyman: The Beat Goes On

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 8, 2013

Composer, arranger, bandleader, pianist, soloist and accompanist Dick Hyman has already lived several jazz lifetimes, and as he contemplates his 86th birthday in March 2013, his career shows no sign of slowing down.A New York City native, Hyman served as pianist with a Dixieland band and with Lester Young at the December 1949 opening ...

Shaking the Blues Away by Rob Fisher, The Coffee Club Orchestra, and Garrison Keillor

By Rob Fisher

Label: Unknown label
Released: 1992