Maury Yeston is composer of the musical "Titanic".

Maury Yeston is a composer with a venerable musical background. With everything from the inspirational music of a cantor to the rousing choruses of a music hall to draw upon, it is unsurprising that he chose music as his personal artistic idiom. What is surprising is how the award-winning Broadway compositions of Maury Yeston so smoothly blend classical, popular and jazz traditions to produce musicals of extraordinary artistic value.