Jule styne biography of martin luther

Born Julius Kerwin Stein on December 31, 1905, in London, England; died September 20, 1994, in New York, NY; son of Isadore and Anna Kertman Stein; married Ethel Rubenstein, 1927 (divorced, 1952); married Margaret Ann Bissett Brown, 1962; children: Stanley, Norton (with Rubenstein); Nicholas, Katherine (with Brown); seven grandchildren; two great grandchildren.

Education: Chicago College of Music; Northwestern University.

Achieving great success as a composer for musicals during Broadway's heyday, Jule Styne claimed to have written 2,000 songs and had some 200 hits during a songwriting career that lasted over 50 years.

He was known for being a great collaborator who could tailor his music perfectly for different scenes and for the vocal abilities of particular singers. "A master of plugging holes, he could sit down at the piano and come up with a song for any dramatic situation at the proverbial drop of a hat," noted Stephen Holden in the New York Times in 1994, soon after the co