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The Irving Berlin reader / edited by Benjamin Sears.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.B499 I78 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Readers on American musicians
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
- Berlin, Irving.
- Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989.
- Musicals--United States--20th century--History and criticism.
- Musicals.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- Part I Musical Demon: Early Years
- 1 Ward Morehouse: A Trip to Chinatown with Irving Berlin 9
- 2 Rennold Wolf: The Boy Who Revived Ragtime 15
- 3 Edward Jablonski: "Alexander" and Irving 29
- 4 Charles Hamm: Excerpt from Alexander and His Band 38
- 5 "Madam Critic": Review of Watch Your Step 53
- 6 Harry B. Smith: Excerpt from First Nights and First Editions 55
- 7 Margaret Knapp: Watch Your Step: Irving Berlin's 1914 Musical 56
- 8 Ghost of Verdi Interviewed: Tells How He Suffers Nightly 63
- 9 Robert Baral: Fond Memory: Those Music Box Revues 68
- 10 Robert Benchley: Letter about The Music Box 73
- 11 S. I. deKrafft: "Yes, We Have No Bananas" in Grand Opera Setting 75
- Part II Blue Skies: Middle Years
- 12 George S. Kaufman: Memoir 79
- 13 Letter from Jerome Kern to Alexander Woollcott, from The Story of Irving Berlin 81
- 14 Richard Rodgers: Excerpt from Musical Stages 83
- 15 Richard Barrios: Excerpt from chapter "The March of Time" in A Song in the Dark 85
- 16 Howard Pollack: Unity of Word and Tone in Two Ballads by Irving Berlin 88
- 17 Benjamin Sears: The Origins of "Easter Parade" 97
- 18 Cleve Sallendan G-A-W-D Bless A-M-E-R-I-K-E-R! 100
- 19 "No Right to a Personal Interest in 'God Bless America,'" Berlin Is Told 102
- 20 Excerpt from Stokowski, Here for Concert Tonight, Praises Martial, Folk Songs; Likes to Play for Soldiers 105
- 21 Irving Berlin Orders Song Word Change 106
- 22 Richard Rodgers: Excerpt from Musical Stages 109
- 23 Ethel Merman, as told to Pete Martin: Excerpt from Who Could Ash for Anything More 111
- 24 Brooks Atkinson: On Annie Get Your Gun 112
- 25 Harold Arlen and Ralph Blane: Verse to "Halloween" 115
- 26 John Russell Taylor and Arthur Jackson: Chapter Excerpt from The Hollywood Musical on Fred Astaire 117
- 27 Fred Astaire: Excerpt from Steps in Time 120
- Part III The Melody Lingers On: Later Years
- 28 Joshua Logan: A Ninetieth-Birthday Salute to the Master of American Song 123
- 29 Nancy Caldwell Sorel: First Encounters: Irving Berlin and George Gershwin 130
- 30 Mark Steyn: Excerpts from Top Hat and Tails 131
- 31 Marilyn Bergen Berlin at 100: Life on a High Note 136
- 32 Murray Kempton: Bit of Blues for Ballads of Berlin 143
- 33 Josh Rubins: Genius without Tears 146
- 34 Arthur Maisel: Irving Berlin (1888-1989) 159
- 35 Edward Sorel: Cartoon, "September 22,1989" 161
- Part IV Irving Berlin in His Own Words
- 36 Irving Berlin: How to Write Ragtime Songs 166
- 37 Irving Berlin: Song and Sorrow Are Playmates 169
- 38 Frank Ward O'Malley: Irving Berlin Gives Nine Rules for Writing Popular Songs 173
- 39 Isaac Goldberg: Excerpt from Words and Music from Irving Berlin 181
- 40 Irving Berlin: Selected Letters 182
- 41 Irving Berlin: Irving Berlin's Insomnia 198
- 42 Lead sheet for "Soft lights and Sweet Music" 200.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195383745
- 9780195383744
- OCLC:
- 708648754
- Publisher Number:
- 99947897381
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