Marvin Hamlisch tribute to feature Barbra Streisand

Stars who sang his songs line up for memorial to A Chorus Line, The Sting composer

The Associated Press

Posted: Sep 14, 2012 10:02 AM ET

Last Updated: Sep 14, 2012 10:01 AM ET

Marvin Hamlisch was composer for A Chorus Line, The Way We Were. A memorial will be held Tuesday. (Associated Press)

New York's Juilliard School plans a star-filled private musical tribute to Marvin Hamlisch that will include Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli.

The composer, who became the youngest person accepted by Juilliard at age seven, died Aug. 6 in Los Angeles. The memorial will be held Tuesday night at the school's Peter Jay Sharp Theater.

Hamlisch composed or arranged hundreds of scores for musicals and movies, including A Chorus Line on Broadway and the films The Sting, Sophie's Choice and The Way We Were.

He died Aug. 7 at age 68.

Also slated to perform are Itzhak Perlman, Michael Feinstein, Chris Botti, Maria Friedman, Brian d'Arcy James and Carter Brey, as well as former cast members of A Chorus Line and cast members of The Nutty Professor, the musical he was working on when he died.

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