Carly Simon

She and her sister Carly Simon were a folk duo in the 1960s. Years later, she wrote the Tony-nominated music for “The Secret Garden.”

Simon was in the hospital for surgery. In 1985, Ms. Lucy Simon’s greatest hit as a folk singer, the “Winkin’” song, had a self-help element to it. Joanna Simon was for a time the arts correspondent for “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” on PBS, and in 1988 she interviewed the playwright Marsha Norman. Norman what she was working on, and the playwright mentioned an adaptation of “The Secret Garden,” the Frances Hodgson Burnett children’s novel, and said that she and the producer Heidi Landesman were looking for a composer. In addition to her husband and her sister Carly, she is survived by two children, Julie Simon and James Levine, and four grandchildren. [in The Times](https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/26/theater/review-theater-garden-the-secret-of-death-and-birth.html), said that Ms. [“Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,”](https://poets.org/poem/wynken-blynken-and-nod) and the song became a staple of the Simon Sisters’ performances. The two sisters toured for a time, but after her marriage in 1967 to Dr. She and her sister Carly Simon were a folk duo in the 1960s. Lucy and I had taken our wardrobe at the Moors pretty seriously, and in return the audience probably thought we were twin milkmaids from Switzerland, or escapees from a nearby carnival.” Carly was a student at Sarah Lawrence College and Lucy was studying at the Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing in New York in the early 1960s when, during summer break, they took a bus to Provincetown, Mass.

Carly Simon is in mourning after both of her sisters -- the Broadway composer, Lucy Simon, and former opera singer, Joanna Simon -- died this week just one ...

She and her husband, David Levine, produced the children's albums In Harmony in 1981 and In Harmony 2 in 1983. Joanna and Cronkite were together from 2005 until his death in 2009. She'd go on to perform all over the world with some of the most iconic orchestras, including the New York and Vienna Philharmonics. But it was as a Broadway composer where Lucy found stardom, thanks to The Secret Garden in 1991. Lucy and Carly got their start in music as the folk singing duo The Simon Sisters. It's been reported that Joanna died in a Manhattan hospital while Lucy died at her home in Piedmont, New York.

NEW YORK — Singer-songwriter Carly Simon is mourning the loss of her two sisters this week. Broadway composer Lucy Simon died of breast cancer Thursday at ...

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The first cousin of Joanna Simon told the NYT that she died Wednesday in Manhattan after battling thyroid cancer. On Thursday, the next oldest Simon sister, ...

She later joined “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” on PBS and won an Emmy Award in 1991, according to the [NYT](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/arts/music/joanna-simon-dead.html). The The oldest of the Simon sisters, Joanna Simon, 85, died Wednesday. [NYT](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/arts/music/lucy-simon-dead.html) that she died Wednesday in Manhattan after battling thyroid cancer. [Joanna Simon](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/arts/music/joanna-simon-dead.html) performed in operas from 1962 until her retirement in 1986. [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/arts/music/lucy-simon-dead.html).

Singer/songwriter Carly Simon has sadly lost both her sisters this week: Broadway composer Lucy Simon, 82, died of breast cancer Thursday and retired opera ...

After her partial retirement from the world of opera, she was an Emmy-winning arts correspondent for PBS’s “MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour” until 1992. Mezzo-soprano Joanna Simon made her debut at New York City Opera as Cherubino in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” in 1962. Also Read:

Singer/songwriter Carly Simon has sadly lost both her sisters this week: Broadway composer Lucy Simon, 82, died of breast cancer Thursday and retired opera ...

After her partial retirement from the world of opera, she was an Emmy-winning arts correspondent for PBS’s “MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour” until 1992. Mezzo-soprano Joanna Simon made her debut at New York City Opera as Cherubino in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” in 1962. She also performed with Carly as the Simon Sisters and told The New York Times in 2015, “So much of what I love about my work on ‘Doctor Zhivago’ comes from my work with Carly, finding the harmonies in duets and trios and quartets.”

Singer Carly Simon's two older sisters died this week after losing their battles with cancer. Joanna Simon died on Wednesday after a battle with thyroid ...

Lucy Simon rose to fame when she joined her younger sister Carly as a member of the folk music duo, the Simon Sisters. After a few years away from music, Lucy Simon returned with two solo albums. Richard Simon was the co-founder of the publishing house Simon and Schuster.

Carly Simon is grieving her siblings after Broadway composer Lucy Simon died this week following a battle with breast cancer just one day after former opera ...

Her oldest sister Joanna reportedly died of thyroid cancer on Wednesday (19 October) aged 85. Lucy, a composer, died the next day of metastatic breast cancer, ...

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Carly Simon is grieving her siblings after Broadway composer Lucy Simon died this week following a battle with breast cancer just one day after former opera ...

Opera singer Joanna died from thyroid cancer shortly before somposer and singer Lucy died after a battle with breast cancer.

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Lucy Simon died of metastatic breast cancer Thursday at the age of 82, while Joanna Simon died of thyroid cancer Wednesday at the age of 85.

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Opera singer Joanna Simon died of thyroid cancer on Wednesday at age 85, and Broadway composer Lucy succumbed to breast cancer at age 82 the following day. The ...

“In the first place, when we hitchhiked up there, I had no idea that we’d get the job or a job,” she said. “We went up there with the idea that if we didn’t get a job as singers we would just spend our summer learning more about the guitar. I remember my room was in the back of the building. She recalled sharing an apartment with Joanna in the late ‘60s, saying, “I couldn’t keep my shoes in the room that she was in or that was our shared living room. Lucy Simon achieved success in 1991 when she won a Tony Award for the music for The Secret Garden. Carly and Lucy worked together in the ‘60s as the Simon Sisters, releasing three albums together.

Carly Simon is mourning the death of her two older sisters, Lucy and Joanna Simon, who died one day apart after battling cancer.

After marrying and having children, Lucy Simon recorded two solo albums, “Lucy Simon” (1975) and “Stolen Time” (1977), for RCA. And it was all due to the brilliant musical mind of Lucy Simon. "The Secret Garden was the first show I saw on Broadway. "They touched everyone they knew and those of us they’ve left behind will be lucky and honored to carry their memories forward." The co-keepers of each other’s memories." "Their loss will be long and haunting.

Lucy Simon, a composer who received a Tony nomination for work on Broadway hit 'The Secret Garden,' dies at 82; Joanna Simon, an opera singer who performed ...

In one of her last messages to me she said ‘I was going to ask you to carry my voice onward’ and I sat and wept,” Boggess wrote on Instagram. Sign in to stop seeing this](//crm.timesofisrael.com/sign-in) At the same time, she brings new life to her uncle and cousin. If so, please join The Times of Israel Community. Do you rely on The Times of Israel for accurate and insightful news on Israel and the Jewish world? Lucy Simon, the composer who received a Tony nomination in 1991 for her work on the long-running Broadway musical “The Secret Garden,” passed away on Thursday at her home in Piedmont, New York at the age of 82.

Joanna Simon, one of the three singing Simon sisters who include pop star Carly, died Wednesday, a day before her sister Lucy died.

"I have no words to explain the feeling of suddenly being the only remaining direct offspring of Richard and Andrea Simon," Carly Simon said. Simon took on a range of material. The co-keepers of each other’s memories." As sad as this day is, it’s impossible to mourn them without celebrating their incredible lives that they lived," Carly Simon said in a statement Saturday. Simon, the eldest of four, died Wednesday, just a day before her sister Lucy died, according to Lucy's daughter, Julie Simon. Joanna Simon, who died of thyroid cancer, rose to fame in the opera world and as a concert performer in the 1960s.

Lucy and Joanna Simon, who also had musical careers, died one day apart.

“I have no words to explain the feeling of suddenly being the only remaining direct offspring of Richard and Andrea Simon,” Carly Simon said. “The Secret Garden,” with a book by Marsha Norman, opened in New York in 1991. After marrying and having children, she recorded two solo albums, “Lucy Simon” (1975) and “Stolen Time” (1977), for RCA. “I am filled with sorrow to speak about the passing of Joanna and Lucy Simon. The co-keepers of each other’s memories.” Simon, the eldest of four, died Wednesday, just a day before her sister Lucy died, according to Lucy’s daughter, Julie Simon.

Joanna Simon, one of the three singing Simon sisters who include pop star Carly, died Wednesday, a day before her sister Lucy died.

"I have no words to explain the feeling of suddenly being the only remaining direct offspring of Richard and Andrea Simon," Carly Simon said. Simon took on a range of material. The co-keepers of each other’s memories." As sad as this day is, it’s impossible to mourn them without celebrating their incredible lives that they lived," Carly Simon said in a statement Saturday. Simon, the eldest of four, died Wednesday, just a day before her sister Lucy died, according to Lucy's daughter, Julie Simon. Joanna Simon, who died of thyroid cancer, rose to fame in the opera world and as a concert performer in the 1960s.

Carly Simon shared an emotional statement mourning the loss of her two sisters Lucy Simon and Joanna Simon who died earlier this week one day apart.

Lucy Simon also had a storied career on Broadway, earning a Tony Award nomination for her work on “The Secret Garden" in 1991. 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964 for their recording of “Wynken, Blynken & Nod.” Lucy Simon went on to win a Grammy for best recording for children in 1981 with her husband David Levine, winning the same award a second time two years later in 1983. Prior to Lucy Simon’s career on Broadway as a composer, she and her sister Carly Simon began as a folk act in Provincetown, Massachusetts as the Simon Sisters. Joanna Simon, who was an opera singer and the eldest of the Simon sisters, died of thyroid cancer on Wednesday, Oct. After a bout of cancer, the photographer died at age 71 of cardiac arrest in November 2018. “I have no words to explain the feeling of suddenly being the only remaining direct offspring of Richard and Andrea Simon,” she wrote.

Carly Simon opened up about the loss of her sisters Joanna, 85, who died of thyroid cancer on Wednesday and Lucy, 82, who died of metastatic breast cancer ...

Together, the pair shared [the song](https://www.carlysimon.com/the-simon-sisters-winkin-blinkin-and-nod) "Wynken, Blynken & Nod" in 1964, before Lucy went attended nursing school and [married David Levine](https://www.nytimes.com/1967/03/13/archives/dr-david-y-levine-weds-lucy-e-simon.html) in 1967. [folk duo, The Simon Sisters](https://people.com/archive/the-sisters-simon-say-we-may-be-in-competition-but-were-still-all-friends-vol-3-no-21/), with Carly. Their younger brother Peter Simon, a longtime photographer on [Martha's Vineyard](https://people.com/home/take-a-peek-inside-the-17-million-marthas-vineyard-home-where-the-obamas-vacationed/), died in 2018 [at 71](https://apnews.com/article/a7cd80670a434bb6af7d9b1e73eabe0a) after he was diagnosed with lung cancer. "I am filled with sorrow to speak about the passing of Joanna and Lucy Simon. "As sad as this day is, it's impossible to mourn them without celebrating their incredible lives that they lived. [Carly Simon](https://people.com/books/carly-simon-says-youre-so-vain-second-verse-is-about-warren-beatty/) is mourning the loss of her [two sisters, Joanna and Lucy Simon](https://people.com/music/carly-simons-2-sisters-lucy-and-joanna-dead-of-cancer-a-day-apart/), who both died of cancer this week.

Carly Simon lost both her sisters, Joanna and Lucy, this week after they succumbed to bouts of thyroid and breast cancer. Learn more here.

From there, she performed Thomas Pasatieri’s Black Widow at the Seattle Opera and sang with the likes of the New York Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic. After that, she composed the music for a stage adaptation of Doctor Zhivago and wrote the score for the HBO film The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. The daughters of Simon & Schuster co-founder Richard Simon, all three of the Simon sisters worked in the entertainment industry from a young age.

Pop superstar Carly Simon paid tribute to her sisters - opera singer Joanna Simon and Broadway composer Lucy Simon - who each died of cancer last week ...

Joanna Simon died at 85 of thyroid cancer last Wednesday, Oct. I am filled with sorrow to speak about the passing of Joanna and Lucy Simon. The co-keepers of each other’s memories.

Singer Carly Simon has paid tribute to her two sisters, Joanna and Lucy, who have tragically died just a day apart of each other this week.

In the early 1980s, Lucy and husband David Levine produced two children’s albums that won Grammy Awards. The co-keepers of each other’s memories. All three sisters had a music background.

Joanna Simon, a renowned opera singer, died Wednesday of thyroid cancer at the age of 85. The following day, Lucy Simon, a Broadway composer who also performed ...

In [a recent interview with Rolling Stone](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/carly-simon-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-interview-1351121/), she talked about getting into the Hall of Fame, the upcoming film adaptation to her 2015 memoir [Boys in the Trees](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/10-things-we-learned-from-carly-simons-revealing-new-memoir-227520/), and the 50th anniversary of No Secrets. [induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eminem-dolly-parton-duran-duran-lionel-richie-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-2022-1346913/) in Nov. The following day, Lucy Simon, a Broadway composer who also performed in a Sixties folk duo with Carly, [died at 82](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/arts/music/lucy-simon-dead.html) following a bout with metastatic breast cancer. Simon’s brother Peter, a photographer, died in 2018. The co-keepers of each other’s memories.” We were three sisters who not only took turns blazing trails and marking courses for one another, we were each others secret shares.

I have no words to explain the feeling of suddenly being the only remaining direct offspring of Richard and Andrea Simon,” wrote Simon.

The track earned her a Grammy Award the following year. Her 1991 score for “The Secret Garden” made her the third female composer on Broadway, and she was nominated for a Tony. “The co-keepers of each other’s memories.” She went on to perform at the Seattle Opera, New York Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. A mezzo soprano, Joanna made her opera debut in “The Marriage of Figaro” in New York City in 1962. Joanna Simon, 85, died of thyroid cancer on Wednesday and Lucy Simon, 82, succumbed to metastatic breast cancer on Thursday.

Singer-songwriter Carly Simon has broken her silence regarding the cancer-related deaths of two of her sisters last week.

[statement](https://deadline.com/2022/10/carly-simon-honors-sisters-joanna-lucy-simon-died-last-week-1235152763/) said. [died Wednesday](https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2022/10/22/carly-simon-sisters/4431666454904/) after a battle with thyroid cancer, and Grammy-winning composer Lucy Simon, 82, died Thursday of breast cancer. We were three sisters who not only took turns blazing trails and marking courses for one another, we were each other's secret shares.