Donald Alan Siegal Net Worth is
$2 Million

Mini Biography

A local of Worcester, Massachusetts, Donald Alan Siegal wrote his 1st little bit of music at age 6, your day the piano was sent to the home. He sat down and started banging within the secrets. Miraculously, it appeared to make some type of musical feeling! Tinkering with the white tips and merging them with the dark types, was Donald’s lifestyle function, his compositional trip. Growing up within a musical family, Donald was encircled by music. His dad had played traditional violin as a kid, and then afterwards, bass fiddle in university. In the Navy, his dad played with Main Bowes (Edward Bowes) and on the Ted Mack Radio Hour. Donald’s sibling performed clarinet and saxophone. There is always music inside your home. Donald commenced his research on classical piano in age group 6 with Czech cello virtuoso, Bedrich Vaska, whose second device was piano. Though carrying out all the traditional repertoire, at age group 7, Donald would compose small items for piano and cello. His 1st was entitled “Bedrich’s Blues,” along with his instructor selecting bass parts for the cello. Although he became quite theoretically proficient playing traditional piano, Donald continuing writing original items. With considerable encouragement, Donald’s father taught him how exactly to play chords, and by age 10, Donald was performing ‘gigs’ on weekends while continuing his classical research. However now he was intrigued by Jazz players, famous brands Expenses Evans and Oscar Peterson. Against his mother’s desires – but along with his father’s blessing – he used a Jazz quartet at a favorite ‘strip golf club.’ He was just 11, but discovered a whole lot about Jazz, among other activities(!). Among the great joys of his years as a child was a vacation to NY and going to Broadway displays. At his 1st ever Broadway musical, this 10-year-old considered his dad and stated, “That’s what I wish to perform.” His dad misunderstood, considering his son wished to play in the orchestra pit or sing on stage. Donald continued to clarify, “I wish to write tracks!” By senior high school, Donald had formed the Don Siegal Trio, performing gigs through the entire New Britain area, becoming an accomplished Jazz participant. He spent summers in Boston, their studies at the famed Berklee University of Music, honing his compositional skills. Writing songs in a number of designs, in his older year of senior high school, Donald aimed and had written music and lyrics for his 1st ever unique musical, which received rave evaluations and performed to packed homes. When it found college, there is only one spot to proceed – NY. And, to aid in satisfying a dream, NY University obliged by giving a full scholarship or grant. At NY University, Donald majored in music and psychology, learning the experts in both. Through intense musical evaluation of the fantastic composers, along with tranquility and theory research, he cultivated an understanding from the composers he previously performed as a kid, however now he known their music through the eye and ears of the composer. At age 18, he was the youngest person ever accepted in to the prestigious Lehman Engel BMI Musical Theatre Workshop being a songwriter. This is to be his most significant classroom. It had been right here that he really learned the build of songwriting, especially for individuals in dramatic circumstances. Donald’s fellow individuals on the Workshop also have received significant acclaim – Alan Menken and Howard Ashman (Small Store of Horrors, Beauty as well as the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992)), Carol Hall (THE VERY BEST Small Whorehouse in Tx (1982)), Maury Yeston (9 (2009)) and Ed Kleban lyrics to A Chorus Range (1985)). Until his death in 1987, Edward Kleban was among Donald’s mentors, and he deemed him as his protégé. Donald’s additional coach was Sheldon Harnick, lyricist for Fiddler on the top (1971) and Fiorello. Graduating NY College or university – Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa – Donald got many provides and opportunities open to him in the graduate level in music. He converted all of them down, deciding in which to stay NY and research privately with Teacher Fred Werle, who trained at Julliard and offered as Dean at Mannes University of Music. General public performances of Donald’s tracks in major NY theatres and cabarets, brought him incredible attention, starting his songwriting career. Within the next two decades in NY, Donald became an employee songwriter for the Emmy Award-winning Sesame Road (1969) and Captain Kangaroo (1955). His musicals had been produced at main off-Broadway and local theatres, such as for example Manhattan Theatre Golf club and Goodspeed Opera Home. Donald was most complimented when asked by award-winning librettist Arthur Kopit, to create music & lyrics for his Lewis & Clark musical. Main artists have documented and performed Donald’s tracks including Trisha Yearwood, Roberta Flack, Randy Travis, Jim Henson, James Galway, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Blossom Dearie, Nancy Dussault and John Davidson. Also included are Tony winners Betty Buckley, Trust Prince, Michael Maguire and Debbie Shapiro Gravitte. His advertisements shown nationally for items like Tree Best, Mercedes-Benz, French’s and Burger Ruler. In 1994, Donald moved to LA to utilize Disney director, Ralph Zondag (writer and lead animator on Pocahontas (1995) and director for the CGI film Dinosaur (2000) at Disney) with an animated musical, writing music and co-writing the storyplot. Donald was intensely involved with creating stories, not merely music and music. Various other animated musicals that Donald was doing music and tale/script were with Dick Zondag (Felines and We’re Back again! A Dinosaur’s Tale (1993))and Ron Clark (Great Nervousness (1977), Revenge from the Green Panther (1978)); Ms. Fortissimo’s Xmas with Baer Computer animation (Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Annabelle’s Desire (1997)); and, for Warner Bros, music for the Looney Tunes task and music/scripts for Frosty the Snowman (1969). In the live action arena, Donald had two tasks with Avery Corman (Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)), one predicated on a tale Donald wrote entitled, Andy and Wally, as well as the various other, a Jazz task, Hotter Than That: The Louis Armstrong / Lil Hardon Tale. Suffering from leukemia, Donald Alan Siegal passed on on January 13, 2004, at age 53.

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