His collaborations with Jerry Bock led to American classics of musical theater.
“Sunrise, sunset.
Sunrise, sunset / Swiftly fly the years / One season following another / Laden with happiness and tears,” Sheldon Harnick wrote for the 1964 musicalFiorello!Harnick is best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock. “From the time we first met, we got along famously,” Harnick told theThe Body BeautifulFiorello! — and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama, one of just ten musicals to win that award.
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