‘Saturday Night Live’ Pays Loving Tribute to Longtime Sketch Music Maestro Hal Willner (Watch)

12.04.2020 - 08:51 / variety.com

By Jem Aswad

Senior Music Editor

In the closing moments of the first-ever “Saturday Night Live From Home,” the show paid tribute to Hal Willner, who died on April 7 and had symptoms consistent with coronavirus. Willner was renowned as a multi-talented producer of albums by Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, Lucinda Williams and multi-artist tribute compilations to Charles Mingus, Kurt Weil and others — and also handled music for the skits on “SNL” since 1981.

Willner’s vast musical versatility

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