Robert Hilferty

The American composer and teacher Milton Babbitt died Saturday, Jan. 29 2011 at age 94. For years, New York-based journalist and filmmaker Robert Hilferty had been constructing a documentary on Babbitt. It was a quirky, loving look at a man regarded by many as a composer of "difficult" music. Hilferty left the film unfinished when he died in 2009. Composer and former Babbitt student Laura Karpman has now completed Hilferty's film.

Cinéma Vérité documentary of ACT UP New York's and WHAM!'s December 10, 1989 action at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City

The American composer and teacher Milton Babbitt died Saturday, Jan. 29 2011 at age 94. For years, New York-based journalist and filmmaker Robert Hilferty had been constructing a documentary on Babbitt. It was a quirky, loving look at a man regarded by many as a composer of "difficult" music. Hilferty left the film unfinished when he died in 2009. Composer and former Babbitt student Laura Karpman has now completed Hilferty's film.

Cinéma Vérité documentary of ACT UP New York's and WHAM!'s December 10, 1989 action at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City

Cinéma Vérité documentary of ACT UP New York's and WHAM!'s December 10, 1989 action at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City