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Composer, conductor, orchestrator, and arranger, Will Vodery dies aged 67 in Farmingdale, New York State, USA. Vodery was one of the few black Americans of his time to make a name for himself as a composer on Broadway, but is best-known for the vocal and choral arrangements he created for the original Broadway stage production of the 1927 classic musical Show Boat.