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Robert Goldman

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Composer b. 1953

Robert Goldman (born 1953) is a French songwriter. He was born in Paris. Goldman is the son of Jewish émigrés Alter Mojze Goldman and Ruth Ambrunn who were Jewish Resistance fighters during the Second World War. He is the younger brother of Jean-Jacques Goldman and half-brother of Pierre Goldman. He is of German-Jewish and Polish-Jewish descent. He has written more than 50 songs for many French-speaking singers such as Céline Dion. He often signed J Kapler.

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First Impressions

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In the literature2 passages

  • 43 The show was First Impressions , a musical based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice , with music and lyrics by Robert Goldman, Glenn Paxton, and George Weiss, and a libretto by Abe Burrows (of Guys and Dolls fame), who also directed. First Impressions opened on 19 March 1959 and closed on 30 May, after just 92 performances. The produ…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • FIRST IMPRESSIONS Abe Burrows; Based on Jane Austen's novel "Pnde and Prejudice" and the play by Helen Jerome; Music and Lyncs. Robert Goldman, Bcxik,theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt

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