... composers Broadway musicals player-piano rolls show tunes pianist George gershwin grew up in Manhattan, where his Russian immigrant father ran through a succession of unsuccessful businesses. Gershwin displayed a sudden musical aptitude at the age of eleven, quitting school four years later...

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... Broadway musicals musical theater show tunes George Gershwin Glière Vladimir alexandrovitch dukelsky hailed from a White Russian family, the son of a civil engineer. A precocious musical prodigy, the preteen enrolled in the Kiev Conservatory and studied with Glière. Then came the Bolshevik...

... Are Coming to Town Burton Lane composers Broadway musicals musical theater show tunes Greenwich Village Follies Burton lane began his musical career at the age of fifteen, leaving school to work as a pianist at Remick’s (where both Gershwin and Youmans started a decade earlier). Lane’s expert...

... show tunes New York Harold rome began his musical career in college, playing in dance bands to help finance his studies. Upon graduation with an architecture degree, Rome came to New York in 1934. With high qualifications and seven years at Yale, the only architectural work he could find...

... popular music nightclubs musical theater show tunes lyricists Irving Actman Frank loesser came from a musical family. His father, Henry, was a Prussian-born piano teacher; older brother Arthur was a renowned concert pianist. Frank, though, was a musical black sheep; refusing to study...

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... to France Flaminio Scala’s Ominous Dream Improvisation Madness to Act Making Love Moon Woman The My Body Wasn’t Why Opposite You Pantalone Alone Rise and Fall World She Writes The Kudisch Marc Stephen Flaherty composers Lehman Engel Lynn Ahrens show tunes Stephen flaherty decided...

... Cromer David Miranda Lin Manuel Rice Elmer Schmidt Joshua composers Broadway musicals musical theater show tunes Broadway success IRENE November 1, 1919 Vanderbilt Theatre • 675 performance Music by Harry Tierney; Lyrics by Joseph McCarthy; Book by James Montgomery; Directed by Edward Royce...

... Izzy Baline Broadway musicals musical theater show tunes lyricists Irving berlin’s family came to America from Russia when he was five. The son of a part-time cantor, Izzy Baline took to the streets as a singing panhandler and went on to become a singing waiter at a Chinatown saloon...

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... Spiffin’ Up Ziggy’s Thank Goodness Trick or Treat Welcome for Louie A Stephen Schwartz composers Broadway musicals musical theater show tunes Pippin, Pippin Shinbone Alley Stephen schwartz became enamored of musical theatre at the age of nine, when he attended SHINBONE ALLEY† [April 13...

... recent songwriters like Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Flaherty, Michael John LaChiusa, and Adam Guettel. This book covers their work, their innovations, their successes, and their failures. This book discusses almost 1,000 shows and 9,000 show tunes and features the entire theatrical output of forty...

... tunes: the pop tunes that became standards when players selected them, on the basis of tradition and recordings by well-known jazz players, and are permanently embedded in American musical culture; ethnic music; show tunes and other popular genres; and some popular jazz compositions, which had much...

... Dream One Night in the Tropics Whiting Jack Jerome Kern composers Broadway musicals T. B Harms show tunes Max Dreyfuss Jerome kern was raised in Newark, New Jersey, where his father was a merchant. In 1902, Kern left high school to become a song plugger for Edward B. Marks’s Lyceum...

...This chapter examines the work of Richard Rodgers. It starts with an interesting commentary of his career. The chapter gives details on productions, with data and song information. Rodgers grew up steeped in show tunes. His parents, operetta enthusiasts, kept music in the house; from the age...

... Arthur Schwartz NYU Broadway musicals teaching show tunes Arhur schwartz displayed an early interest in music—despite objections from his father, a lawyer—and by the age of fourteen was playing piano accompaniment in Brooklyn movie houses. After graduating from NYU, he went on to Columbia...