Neil Rosengarden is a composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles.

MICHAEL BITTERMAN-(Composer/Lyricist) was writing musicals and Twilight Zone scripts when he was 11-that was back in '61. Although Rod Serling sent him letters of encouragement nothing materialized on TV but they lived in his dreams. Starting one of the first bands in Great Neck-The Long Island Sounds-in '65 as a rhythm guitarist, the band was one of the premier bands on Long Island. Being an outcast for being the first kid in school to have long hair, he found solace in Greenwich Village in the mid 60s eventually writing songs and performing at the Gaslight Cafe on MacDougal St in '68.
Signing an exclusive songwriting contract with Albert Grossman in '69 (manager for Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul &amp; Mary, Janis Joplin, The Band) he had many almosts as a songwriter-Karen Carpenter (The Carpenters), Mary Travers (Peter, Paul &amp; Mary), Mary Hopkin, Procol Harum, were all set to record his songs when one day Michael went into Albert's office with a copy of the Great White Wonder...
Starting the band MIDNIGHT in 1970 and playing concerts with David Peel &amp; the Lower East Side, MIDNIGHT was very close to being signed by John Hammond at Columbia. MIDNIGHT has a CD recorded in 1970 avail on CD BABY.
As one of the first Arp 2600 Synthesizer musicians/programmers in NYC, he has played on records of Barry Manilow, Janis Ian, and many others.In 1971 he worked as a rehearsal pianist for Alan Klein at Apple Records.
His love for musicals turned to writing when he produced and wrote the music and lyrics for FIVE AFTER EIGHT which played at the Cubiculo Theatre in New York in 1979 breaking all existing house records for that theater. Original Cast Records released the cast LP &amp; CD.Then, in '84, he wrote the autobiographical album, WHOSE FANTASY IS THIS?-released on LP &amp; CD.
THE DEMIGOD OF E 78th ST, with book &amp; lyrics by Dennis Drogseth, premiered at the Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock, NY in 1984.
DISCOVERING MAGENTA, with book &amp; lyrics by James Corey Kaufman was selected for Oklahoma City University's New Musical series in 2007
Although his songs are bordering on romance and loss of love, this was never his intention-it's just the way it all happened.Despite the fact that he has written the scores for 9 musicals, his most recent, FORLORN HOPE-The Donner Party Musical, the songs he performs as an artist are all personal statements of his life from when he was a teen in the 60s-through his turbulent life of craziness in the mid 80s-to the present.



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