BOCK AND HARNICK. Preeminent musical theater composing team of the 1960s, best remembered for their score for Fiddler on the Roof ; Jerry Bock, b. New Haven, Connecticut, ; Sheldon Harnick, b. Chicago, Illinois, .
Songwriters Bock and Harnick showed an almost sweet regard for their characters’ humanity and displayed an ability to universalize the problems and dreams of these characters in such shows as Fiddler on the Roof and The Rothschilds ...