Harvey Brownstone Interviews David Friedman, Composer, Musical Director, Author, “The Thought Exchange”

Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth interview with David Friedman, Composer, Musical Director, Author, “The Thought Exchange” About Harvey's guest: Today’s guest, David Friedman, is a film and theatre composer, songwriter, conductor, author and teacher whose list of accomplishments is truly staggering.   After spending several years conducting musicals on Broadway including “Grease”, “Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” and “Song and Dance”, he went to Hollywood, where he was the Conductor and Vocal Arranger on many Disney classic films including “Beauty & The Beast”, “Aladdin”, “Pocahontas” and “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”.    He wrote music and lyrics for Disney’s “Aladdin and the King of Thieves”, and he spent 13 years as Music Supervisor and Vocal Arranger of “Beauty & The Beast” on Broadway.    His off-Broadway hit, “Desperate Measures” won the 2018 Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and Off Broadway Alliance Awards.  He’s also co-written many other highly acclaimed shows, including “Scandalous”, “Chasing Nicolette, which won the Barrymore Award for best score, “Nellie Bly”, and “Money Talks”, as well as his beloved Christmas Oratorio, “King Island Christmas”, which has had over 50 productions around the world, and which won a Frederick Loewe Award and Dramatists Guild Award.  And his show entitled, “Listen to my Heart: The Songs of David Friedman”, has also been performed throughout America and globally.   He's written numerous classic hit songs, including “Help is on the Way”, “My Simple Christmas Wish” and “Let the Music Play”, all of which have won MAC Awards for Song of the Year.  His multi-platinum-selling songs have been performed by everyone from Diana Ross, Barry Manilow and Petula Clark, to Allison Krauss, Laura Branigan, Lainie Kazan – and of course, the magnificent, late, great Nancy LaMott, for whom our guest produced ALL of her albums and DVDs.   For 10 years he appeared on the Today Show every month, performing his songs live with some of Broadway’s brightest stars.  His songs have been used to raise money for charitable organizations, for children’s hospitals, Breast Cancer Awareness, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.    He’s released 2 CD’s, entitled “A Different Light” and “Let Me Fly”, in which he sings his own songs.   In 1997 he received a Backstage Bistro Award for Composer of the Year AND a Johnny Mercer Award for Songwriter of the Year.  And in 2012 he received a Special Lifetime Achievement Award at the MAC Awards.    And if ALL OF THAT weren’t enough, he’s become renowned for his work in metaphysics and human potential exploration, with his #1 best selling book entitled, “The Thought Exchange: Overcoming Our Resistance to Living a Sensational Life”.  A new 20th anniversary edition of the book was just released.   The book formed the basis for a critically acclaimed documentary film directed by Usher Morgan, called “The Thought Exchange”.  Since then, our guest has written 4 more books, entitled, “The Healing Power of Negative Thoughts and Uncomfortable Sensations”, “It’s all Inside”, “We Can Be Kind – Healing Our World One Kindness at a Time”, and “Help is on the Way”.  And he has TWO more books on the way. For more interviews and podcasts go to: https://www.harveybrownstoneinterviews.com/ To see more about David Friedman, go to:http://thethoughtexchange.com/https://www.facebook.com/thethoughtexchangehttps://twitter.com/ThoughtExchnge#DavidFriedman  #harveybrownstoneinterviews