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 made him an ideal contributor to the show. Castmember Kate Mackinnon introduced the segment, saying, “Some of the show’s sketches are more cinematic in quality and need to be scored more like a movie in order for them to make sense and for the jokes to
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