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Barbra Streisand to help honor Marvin Hamlisch

BY: AP Staff Writer SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 | MODIFIED: SEPTEMBER 18, 2012 AT 3:15 PM
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Photo -   In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photograph originally released by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center shows composer Marvin Hamlisch at the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Juilliard School is planning a star-filled private musical tribute to Marvin Hamlisch that includes Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli. The composer, who became the youngest person accepted by Juilliard at age 7, died Aug. 6 in Los Angeles. The memorial will be held Tuesday night at the school's Peter Jay Sharp Theater. (AP Photo/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Alex J. Berliner, file )
In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photograph originally released by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center shows composer Marvin Hamlisch at the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. The Juilliard School is planning a star-filled private musical tribute to Marvin Hamlisch that includes Barbra Streisand, Aretha Franklin and Liza Minnelli. The composer, who became the youngest person accepted by Juilliard at age 7, died Aug. 6 in Los Angeles. The memorial will be held Tuesday night at the school's Peter Jay Sharp Theater. (AP Photo/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Alex J. Berliner, file )

NEW YORK (AP) — There was one voice noticeably absent from Marvin Hamlisch's funeral last month — Barbra Streisand. A memorial Tuesday night for the composer promises to be different.

Streisand, who first met Hamlisch in 1963 and sang his song "The Way We Were" to a Grammy Award win in 1974, is headlining a star-filled private musical tribute to her friend at The Juilliard School.

The composer, who became the youngest person accepted by Juilliard at age 7, died Aug. 6 in Los Angeles.

Also scheduled to perform are Aretha Franklin, Liza Minnelli, 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 Hamlisch was working on when he died.

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