Henry Mancini’s daughter discusses father’s Hollywood Bowl tribute, TikTok fame

Monica Mancini can point to the exact night – April 9, 1962 – when she and her two siblings realized that their father, the legendary film composer Henry Mancini, wasn’t like other dads.

“There was a real specific time when us kids became quite aware that we were dealing with somebody who wasn’t just, you know, a dad that went to work and came home at dinner,” Mancini says on a recent call. “It was the Academy Awards show where he picked up two Oscars in one night.

“He won for the...