Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner

Jeanine Tesori is preeminent among women composers active in the realm of the Broadway music, with a long list of awards and critical and popular successes to her name. Tesori has also taken up the more specifically classical genres of theatrical incidental music, in which she worked with acclaimed playwright Tony Kushner, and opera. Tesori was born Jeanine Tesoriero in Port Washington, New York, on Long Island, on November 10, 1961. Her father was a physician, but her grandfather was a conductor and composer, and when she began taking piano lessons at four, her family notice...