Maury Yeston

A Broadway composer and lyricist who won Tony Awards for both Nine (1982) and Titanic (1997) — an unusual double for the same craft on two very different ships of a story. His musical version of The Phantom of the Opera has run in more than a thousand productions worldwide, and he wrote a Cello Concerto premiered by Yo-Yo Ma. He spent eight years as a music professor at Yale before his Broadway career took off.