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BMI Songwriter Joel Hirschhorn Dies
BMI songwriter Joel Hirschhorn, who shared two Academy Awards for theme songs in The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, has died. He was 67. Hirschhorn, of Agoura Hills, Calif., died September 18 of a heart attack at Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center in Thousand Oaks after suffering a broken shoulder in a fall two days earlier. Hirschhorn's songs sold more than 90 million…
Joel Hirschhorn

Informative and tremendously fun to read, Joel Hirschhorn's book "The Complete Idiot's Guide To Songwriting" (Alpha; $16.95) is for anyone that has ever heard a song on the radio and thought: "I would have done that a little differently." Even though most people are not formally trained musicians, many possess the intuitive skills required to compose hit songs. Hirschhorn's book is designed to awaken and inspire the…
