Life of Galileo
Hovey was born in New York City in 1920. He studied piano with Edward Steuermann and composition with Hanns Eisler and Arnold Schoenberg. He was musical director for the first American production of Bertolt Brecht's "Life of Galileo" in Los Angeles in 1947. He composed the theatrical scores for "Tevya and His Daughters" and "The World of Sholom Aleichem", among others.