Gerald Fried, Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer, dead at 95

Gerald Fried, Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated composer, dead at 95

Gerald Fried, Emmy-winning composer of the “Roots” miniseries and scores of other TV projects, died Friday in Connecticut of pneumonia, according to media reports. He was 95. Born in the Bronx on Feb. 13, 1928, Fried attended New York’s High School of Music and the Juilliard School of Music. He was first oboist with the … Read more