Paul Trueblood (November 11, 1935 - January 16, 2012) was musical director/pianist for a variety of performers including Diane Keaton,

Michael Feinstein Michael Jay Feinstein (born September 7, 1956) is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an archivist and interpreter for the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for cele ...

Julie Wilson Julie May Wilson (October 21, 1924 – April 5, 2015) was an American singer and actress widely regarded as "the queen of cabaret". She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1989 for her performance in ''Leg ...

, Carol Lawrence, Matthew Broderick, Anita Ellis, and

Earl Wrightson Earl Wrightson (January 1, 1916 – March 7, 1993) was an American singer and actor best known for musical theatre, concerts and television performances. His regular singing partner was the soprano Lois Hunt. Early life and career Wrightson was ...

and

Lois Hunt Lois Hunt (born Lois Harriet Marcus, November 26, 1924 – July 26, 2009) was an American lyric soprano who had spent some of her earlier career performing at New York City's Metropolitan Opera and later spent four decades performing and rec ...

. He was personal pianist for lyricist

Alan Jay Lerner Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre bot ...

and director

Joshua Logan Joshua Lockwood Logan III (October 5, 1908 – July 12, 1988) was an American director, writer, and actor. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing the musical '' South Pacific'' and was involved in writing other musicals. Early years Logan ...

. He wrote special material for Radio City Music Hall, Martin Charnin's Upstairs at O'Neal's, numerous cabaret performers, and two scores for the American Methodist Bicentennial ''A Church Is Born'' (Carnegie Hall, 1985) and ''Aldersgate 88'' (Avery Fisher Hall, 1988). He appeared with Betty Comden and Adolph Green on Broadway and thereafter in many concert engagements. He conducted the New York companies of the Drama Critics Award musical '' Your Own Thing'', the 1986 Broadway revival of ''

Oh, Coward! ''Oh, Coward!'' is a musical revue in two acts devised by Roderick Cook and containing music and lyrics by Noël Coward. The revue consists of two men and one woman in formal dress, performing songs based on the following themes: England, family ...

'', Joshua Logan's remounting of '' Annie Get Your Gun'', ''The Chosen'', ''Red White and Maddox'' and ''Dancing in the Dark'', a revue of the songs of Dietz and Schwartz, produced by Arthur Schwartz for the Manhattan Theater Club. In 1996-97, he toured the world with Marianne Faithfull in a

Kurt Weill Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900April 3, 1950) was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fru ...

evening. His CD with Marianne Faithfull, '' 20th Century Blues'', was recorded live at the New Morning Club and released by RCA Victor. As a composer, Paul Trueblood's work was heard at

Radio City Music Hall Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue and Theater (structure), theater at 1260 Sixth Avenue (Manhattan), Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. Nicknamed "The Showplac ...

Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall ( ) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street (Manhattan), 56th and 57th Street (Manhatta ...

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 millio ...

and in every major New York cabaret venue. He conducted two CDs with Metropolitan Opera star

Youngok Shin Youngok Shin (also spelled Young-Ok Shin and Young Ok Shin: born July 3, 1961 in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean lyric coloratura soprano known for her interpretations of the bel canto repertoire. Early life and education Shin was born ...

(Samsung Classics), and with Broadway legend Sally Ann Howes, and was the musical director for young German chanteuse Micaela Leon. He was also a Master Teacher at the annual Cabaret Conference at Yale University.

References

Memorial obituary http://obit.ziemerfuneralhome.com/obitdisplay.html?id=1024409 (no longer accessible 3-8-2016) http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=155602092 (accessed 3-8-2016) {{DEFAULTSORT:Trueblood, Paul American pianists 1935 births 2012 deaths American male pianists