Hamlisch’s, spoke of meeting the man he affectionately called “my nemesis” when they worked in the 1960s at a girls’ camp in the Poconos.
And he laughed and I got the job.”Īt the funeral the composer Richard Kagan, a lifelong friend of Mr. “I bossed him around, and he played for me because the pianist was at lunch, and I snapped my fingers to make him go faster. “I didn’t have an appointment, and he was there, and I didn’t know who he was,” she said. Other attendees included Liza Minnelli, Alan Alda, Brian d’Arcy James, Leslie Uggams, Tony Roberts and Richard Gere. The funeral’s guest list offered a collision of talents from various decades and disciplines - sometimes almost literally, as when a swarm of paparazzi descended upon Mike Nichols and Diane Sawyer, allowing Bernadette Peters, who arrived at the same time, to slip in unnoticed. Reagan wrote, “his piano music drowned out my voice.” Hamlisch when he would perform for her and President Reagan. Statements of condolence were also read from President Obama and Michelle Obama, and from Nancy Reagan, who said that she sometimes liked to sing along with Mr. More traditional readings at the funeral included verses from the Book of Ecclesiastes and a poem by Hayyim Nahman Bialik, who wrote: “Oh, he had one more melody, and now that melody is lost forever, lost forever.” Stringer said, was a reworking of “The 12 Days of Christmas” in which the phrase “five golden rings” was replaced with “Mort Zuckerman,” and a version of “White Christmas” sung by Nora Ephron that began with the neglected lyrics:
Among the compositions featured at these gatherings, Mr. Hamlisch would rewrite holiday songs to include the names of their guests. Hamlisch’s longtime tradition of holding secular, star-studded Christmas parties (he estimated that half the attendees were Jewish), where Mr.
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