Lou Teicher Has Died
Submitted by redmondkr on Tue, 2008/08/05 - 2:37pm

For those who don't remember Lou Teicher, he was half of the piano team of Ferrante and Teicher of Exodus, The Apartment, Midnight Cowboy, and West Side Story fame. He was 83 and died at his summer home in North Carolina.

Bet you can't remember when they played this on Top 40 AM radio.

I do.

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bizgrrl's picture

RIP, Mr. Teicher. It took a

Submitted by bizgrrl on Tue, 2008/08/05 - 5:02pm.

RIP, Mr. Teicher.

It took a while, then their names clicked.

A little more trivia:

...met while studying at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. Musical prodigies, they began performing as a piano duo while still in school. After graduating, they both joined the Juilliard faculty.

In 1947, they launched a full-time concert career,...

R. Neal's picture

More trivia: Ferrante and

Submitted by R. Neal on Tue, 2008/08/05 - 5:14pm.

More trivia:

Ferrante and Teicher were the first to perform at the new Knoxville Civic Auditorium-Coliseum when it opened, and the first when it reopened after a major overhaul.

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