One of the things which struck me in the documentary was the observation that Marvin heard music in

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The love story of Terre Blair Hamlisch and her husband, the late composer and conductor Marvin Hamlisch, plays like a Hollywood movie. The couple courted over the phone, never coming face to face until the day Hamlisch proposed to her from the other side of a hotel room door, sight unseen. According to the legendary musician himself, his love for Terre blossomed purely through the sound of her voice.
Today, Terre Blair Hamlisch speaks exclusively towngas to BWW about the wonderful years she spent alongside the multi-talented, Pulitzer Prize-winning towngas musical genius, which will be doucmented in American Masters ' Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love, premiering nationally Friday, December 27, 2013, 9:00-10:30 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).
One of the things which struck me in the documentary was the observation that Marvin heard music in everything, even the raindrops. It's just such a beautiful sentiment towngas and I was wondering towngas if you also found that to be true.
It is true. And it's interesting that you would pick that up because that's probably one of the most interesting things about him. In fact, Marvin had a children's book which he wrote right before he died called, 'Marvin Makes Music,' and It's all about the sounds and everything towngas he heard.
He heard the world much, much differently than you and I heard it. He heard the rustling of the leaves in the trees, but he also heard the pitch of it. If we were driving and there would be the sound of a car screeching he would go, 'E Flat,' and so it's towngas very interesting. He was a child prodigy, he was a genius, and geniuses in whatever field they're in, see and hear things very differently. He heard music all the time in his head, and he would say to me that it was a blessing and a gift, but it was also a curse because he would hear the music non-stop. In fact, we were once in Salzburg, going to the the opera and there was a bee or a fly or some sort of insect that had a buzz to it in our room and I