The original score of American composer Paul Bowles' incidental music for Tennessee Williams' play, "The Glass Menagerie," was recently discovered in an archive at the University of Texas here.
The score, previously believed lost, was well-received when the play opened on Broadway in 1945. In 1987 Henry Mancini retained the original theme and used Bowles' work as a basis for the rest of his own score for a remake of the film version.Bowles later became better known for his literary work, including novels such as "The Sheltering Sky," and short stories.
He composed music for three more of Williams' plays, "Summer and Smoke," "Sweet Bird of Youth" and "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More." He also composed operas, cantatas, ballet music and art songs to texts by Gertrude Stein and D.H. Lawrence, among others.