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- Wall Street Journal
‘Orchestration Is All About Sex'
You probably know an unsung hero, someone whose accomplishments deserve more renown than they receive. My friend Tim Pleiman was like that. On May 26, he died at 60 of a heart attack. I don't want him to be forgotten.
Tim was a gifted musician. In the 1990s he was involved in numerous productions at Chicago's New Tuners theater company, which was the first group in the city to specialize in producing new musicals. It presented Jane Boyd and my first musical, 'Charlie's Oasis,' in 1990 and hired Tim to orchestrate it. Later that fall, when the show went to Russia, Tim reorchestrated his small five-piece ensemble for a 35-piece orchestra.
