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Author : Edward Jablonski
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555533663
"The book is filled with arresting detail about Arlen's career. . . This one is required reading for anyone who cares about American popular music, or, it goes without saying, musical theatre." -- Show Music
Author : Walter Frisch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780197503270
Harold Arlen's songs like "Over the Rainbow" and "Stormy Weather" form a crucial part of the American soundscape of the twentieth century. From their origins at the Cotton Club of Harlem, the Broadway stage, and Hollywood film studios, they capture an extraordinary range of emotions and styles. Harold Arlen and His Songs is the first book to look at Arlen's music across his long career and through his collaborations with the top lyric writers of his time, including Ted Koehler, Yip Harburg, Johnny Mercer, and Ira Gershwin. The book also discusses Arlen's activities as a singer of his music, as well as the performances of vocalists with a strong affinity for it, like Ethel Waters, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald, and Barbra Streisand.
Author : Edward Jablonski
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985-01-21
Category : Composers
ISBN : UCSD:31822002012599
Composer Harold Arlen has written some of the greatest and most popular American songs, favorites of singers and jazz musicians everywhere. This story of his life in show business with the likes of Judy Garland, Johnny Mercer, the Gershwins, and other legends of Hollywood and Broadway provides details about songs, shows, and lively times. IT should firmly position Arlen as a song writer the equal of Richard Rodgers and Irving Berlin.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781936140008
Take a magical journey over the rainbow with this unique offering of a beautifully illustrated book accompanied by a CD Whimsical illustrations and a recording of the beloved song by Judy Collins make this the perfect picture book for bedtime or music class Breathtaking and magical artwork by the critically-acclaimed illustrator of Puff The Magic Dragon will carry young readers from a little red farmhouse up over the rainbow, into the sky where bluebirds fly and castles rise high in the clouds, and beyond. The extraordinary soundtrack for this magnificent picture book is performed by the Grammy Award winning Judy Collins, who has recorded what might be the very best version of "Over the Rainbow" ever sung. Her version of this classic will delight and touch the heart of every parent and child who listens. As an added bonus, the enclosed CD also contains two delightful additional songs recorded by Judy Collins: "White Choral Bells" and "I See the Moon."
Author : Walter Frisch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780190467333
"Over the Rainbow" exploded into worldwide fame upon its performance by Judy Garland in the MGM film musical The Wizard of Oz (1939). Voted the greatest song of the twentieth century in a 2000 survey, it is a masterful, delicate balance of sophistication and child-like simplicity in which composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg poignantly captured the hope and anxiety harbored by Dorothy's character. In Arlen and Harburg's Over the Rainbow, author Walter Frisch traces the history of this song from its inception during the development of The Wizard of Oz's screenplay, to its various reinterpretations over the course of the twentieth century. Through analysis of the song's music and lyrics, this Oxford Keynotes volume provides a close reading of the piece while examining the evolution of its meaning as it traversed widely varying cultural contexts. From its adoption as a jazz standard by generations of pianists, to its contribution to Judy Garland's role as a gay icon, to its reemergence as a chart-topping recording by Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, "Over the Rainbow" continues to engage audiences and performers alike in surprising ways. Featuring a companion website with audio and video supplements, this book leaves no path unexplored as it succeeds in capturing the extent of this song's impact on the world.
Author : David Lehman
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780805242713
In A Fine Romance, David Lehman looks at the formation of the American songbook—the timeless numbers that became jazz standards, iconic love songs, and sound tracks to famous movies—and explores the extraordinary fact that this songbook was written almost exclusively by Jews. An acclaimed poet, editor, and cultural critic, David Lehman hears America singing—with a Yiddish accent. He guides us through America in the golden age of song, when “Embraceable You,” “White Christmas,” “Easter Parade,” “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,” “My Romance,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “Stormy Weather,” and countless others became nothing less than the American sound track. The stories behind these songs, the shows from which many of them came, and the shows from which many of them came, and the composers and lyricists who wrote them give voice to a specifically American saga of love, longing, assimilation, and transformation. Lehman’s analytical skills, wit, and exuberance infuse this book with an energy and a tone like no other: at once sharply observant, personally searching, and attuned to the songs that all of us love. He helps us understand how natural it should be that Wizard of Oz composer Harold Arlen was the son of a cantor who incorporated “Over the Rainbow” into his Sabbath liturgy, and why Cole Porter—the rare non-Jew in this pantheon of musicians who wrote these classic songs shaped America even as America was shaping them. (Part of the Jewish Encounter series)
Author : Harold Arlen
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015040438791
(P/V/G Composer Collection). 39 songs commemorating the career of songwriter Harold Arlen. Includes: As Long As I Live * Get Happy * I Love a Parade * It's Only a Paper Moon * The Man That Got Away * Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) * and more. Includes photos and an extensive introduction by Edward Jablonski.
Author : Harold Arlen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1298798690
Author : Nancy Faber,Randall Faber
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781616779214
(Faber Piano Adventures ). The appeal of popular music spans generations and genres. In this collection of 27 hits, enjoy folk tunes like "Ashokan Farewell" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water," movie themes from James Bond and Batman , Broadway numbers from Evita and A Little Night Music , and chart-toppers performed by Michael Jackson, Adele, Billy Joel, and more. Adult Piano Adventures Popular Book 2 provides this variety, yet with accessible arrangements for the progressing pianist. Students may advance through the book alongside method studies, or jump to all their favorites. Optional chord symbols above the staff guide understanding and personal expression.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:264968493
Author : Harriet Hyman Alonso
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780819571243
Known as “Broadway’s social conscience,” E. Y. Harburg (1896–1981) wrote the lyrics to the standards, “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?,” “April in Paris,” and “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” as well as all of the songs in The Wizard of Oz, including “Over the Rainbow.” Harburg always included a strong social and political component to his work, fighting racism, poverty, and war. Interweaving close to fifty interviews (most of them previously unpublished), over forty lyrics, and a number of Harburg’s poems, Harriet Hyman Alonso enables Harburg to talk about his life and work. He tells of his early childhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, his public school education, how the Great Depression opened the way to writing lyrics, and his work on Broadway and Hollywood, including his blacklisting during the McCarthy era. Finally, but most importantly, Harburg shares his commitment to human rights and the ways it affected his writing and his career path. Includes an appendix with Harburg’s key musicals, songs, and films.
Author : William Zinsser
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1567923259
In this warm and affectionate book, William Zinsser describes his lifelong love affair with American popular song and the American musical theater.
Author : Michael Haas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300154313
DIV With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more than virtually any other sector, making it the most important cultural front in the Nazi fight for German identity. This groundbreaking book looks at the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich and the consequences for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany’s historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self-mutilation. Michael Haas looks at the actual contribution of Jewish composers in Germany and Austria before 1933, at their increasingly precarious position in Nazi Europe, their forced emigration before and during the war, their ambivalent relationships with their countries of refuge, such as Britain and the United States and their contributions within the radically changed post-war music environment. /div
Author : Allen Forte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 069104399X
In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
Author : Alan Jay Lerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : American drama
ISBN : LCCN:2009656805
Rosecroft Music Circus, John A. Schaefer presents Doretta Morrow in "Brigadoon," co-starring Jack Washburn, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, music by Frederick Loewe, directed by Louis Macmilian, musical director Leo Stone, choreography by Robert Paget, settings by Gordon Micunis, costumes by Bernie Joy.