Eric Goldberg responds to me:

>>Meyer Kupferman has been around for years writing away...........
>
>Kupferman died a few months ago.

Died in November of last year, as several people have pointed out to me.

>>...  Kupferman is fundamentally a conservative Modernist -- tonal
>>(although he has written dodecaphonically), ...
>
>I don't believe him to be fundamentally a tonalist.  His "Infinity series"
>which includes many. many of his pieces is based on a tone row and he
>often follows his own path down the tone row road.  He did occasionally
>write tonal music as well as music utilizing other scales and techniques
>but the vast majority of his vast output of music is not tonal.

Let's agree to differ.

>>...  often with an underlay of Thirties and Forties Big-Band lyricism,
>>the kind often associated with the Bobby Hackett charts for Jackie
>>Gleason.
>
>Bobby Hackett did not write charts for Jaclkie Gleason, he played trumpet
>solos in his inimitable style.

I've always read about them as the "Bobby Hackett charts," so I assumed.
Do you know who did write them?

Steve Schwartz