Mansour Rahbani, 83, One-Half Of Lebanon’s Rodgers & Hammerstein

“Lebanese composer Mansour Rahbani, well-known in the Arab world along with his brother Assi for their role in musical and theatrical revival, died on Tuesday following a bout of pneumonia… Assi Rahbani was married to legendary Lebanese singing diva Fairuz, for whom the two men composed many songs and plays… Mansour and Assi, who became known as the Rahbani Brothers, also wrote several acclaimed musicals.”