Broadway staged in 2020 Compliments To Harman, who died in December 2019, Blank, who led the show’s orchestra, gave Pippin one of the title songs of “Mame.” Pepin’s original vocal arrangement. Pippin was 93 years old.
Pippin was born on November 25, 1926 in Macon, Georgia, and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father Earl worked at A. & P. After that, he was a poultry wholesaler. His mother, Eileen (Rigon) Pippin, began piano lessons at the age of six. He won the state piano competition at the age of eight, so at the age of nine he had already won the younger age group, so the contest organizer put him in the 10 and 11 year old divisions. .. He also won it.
At night in honor of his first piano teacher, Evelyn Miller, when Pippin returned to Knoxville in 1996 to conduct a program called “Donald Pippin’s Broadway Melody” with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. The highest point has come. audience. In honor of her, he played Grieg’s Waltz in A minor. She taught him at the first piano competition.
Miller also came to the preview performance of “Oliver!”. In New York in 1963, Pippin invited her to a party, where she met cast members, including the English boy Bruce Prochnik, who played the title character. He signed her photo for her and tried something that he thought would sound south of her. “To my Tennessee Honey Chile,” he wrote.
Mr. Pippin’s mother died when he was 10 years old, and in 1938 he was sent to Baylor School. Baylor School was an army school for boys at the time. The school had him bring a Steinway piano set up in the chapel.
