This two-hour special of the colorful life of the maverick and seminal American composer of film scores, orchestral and chamber music, ballets, opera, Broadway musicals and American songs. Michael Feinstein hosts this documentary of a quintessentially American composer, who not only composed the scores for legendary films such as The Big Country and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and famous musicals like The Golden Apple and Gentlemen Be Seated, but also wrote innovative ballets, chamber and orchestral music, and a highly original opera, Sorry, Wrong Number. Hear it Thursday, August 1st at 9pm.