Jerry Bock & Sheldon Harnick

Jerry Bock was one of the most successful theater composers of the 1960s -- the fact that he's not better known beyond theater circles may be explained by that timing; theater wasn't the dominant musical venue of the 1960s. Born in New Haven, CT, he was a natural musician, and took up the piano and composition at an early age -- as a boy, he was able to play very advanced pieces of music by ear. Bock grew up in Queens, NY, attending P.S. 32, where he wrote his first musical. He later attended Flushing High School, where he wrote a musical, My Dream, which was produced at the s...