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Author : Ralph Sharon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Magic of Irving Berlin written by Ralph Sharon and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey Magee
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195398262
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater written by Jeffrey Magee and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irving Berlin's songs have been the soundtrack of America for a century, but his most profound contribution to the nation is to Broadway. Award-winning music historian Jeffrey Magee's chronicle of Berlin's theatrical career is the first book to fully consider the songwriter's immeasurable influence on the Great White Way. Tracing Berlin's humble beginnings on the lower-east side to his rise to American icon, Irving Berlin's American Musical Theatre will delight theater aficionados as well as students of music, and popular culture, and anyone interested in the story of a man whose life and work expressed so well the American dream.
Author : James Kaplan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300183216
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Irving Berlin written by James Kaplan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fast†‘moving, musically astute portrait of arguably the greatest composer of American popular music Irving Berlin (1888–1989) has been called—by George Gershwin, among others—the greatest songwriter of the golden age of the American popular song. “Berlin has no place in American music,” legendary composer Jerome Kern wrote; “he is American music.” In a career that spanned an astonishing nine decades, Berlin wrote some fifteen hundred tunes, including “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” “God Bless America,” and “White Christmas.” From ragtime to the rock era, Berlin’s work has endured in the very fiber of American national identity. Exploring the interplay of Berlin’s life with the life of New York City, noted biographer James Kaplan offers a visceral narrative of Berlin as self†‘made man and witty, wily, tough Jewish immigrant. This fast†‘paced, musically opinionated biography uncovers Berlin’s unique brilliance as a composer of music and lyrics. Masterfully written and psychologically penetrating, Kaplan’s book underscores Berlin’s continued relevance in American popular culture. About Jewish Lives: Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present. In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award. More praise for Jewish Lives: “Excellent.” – New York times “Exemplary.” – Wall St. Journal “Distinguished.” – New Yorker “Superb.” – The Guardian
Author : Nancy Churnin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 193954744X
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Irving Berlin written by Nancy Churnin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story behind how a Jewish refugee wrote the patriotic American classic, God Bless America.
Author : Ken Emerson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101156929
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Always Magic in the Air written by Ken Emerson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late 1950s and early 1960s, after the shock of Elvis Presley and before the Beatles spearheaded the British Invasion, fourteen gifted young songwriters huddled in midtown Manhattan's legendary Brill Building and a warren of offices a bit farther uptown and composed some of the most beguiling and enduring entries in the Great American Songbook. Always Magic in the Air is the first thorough history of these renowned songwriters-tunesmiths who melded black, white, and Latino sounds, integrated audiences before America desegregated its schools, and brought a new social consciousness to pop music.
Author : Irving Berlin
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ragtime & Early Songs written by Irving Berlin and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1991 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19 of Berlin's first hits, including: Alexander's Ragtime Band * Everybody's Doing It Now * Mandy * Marie * Russian Lullaby * When the Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam' * and more.
Author : David Witter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625845820
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Chicago Magic written by David Witter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of America's "Golden Age of Magic," Chicago had taken center stage in front of an American audience drawn to the craft by the likes of Harry Houdini and Howard Thurston. Cashing in on a craze that rivaled big-band mania, magic shops and clubs sprang up everywhere across the Windy City, packed in customers and put down roots. Over the last century, for example, Magic, Inc. has outfitted magicians from Harry Blackstone Sr. to Penn and Teller to David Copperfield. Magic was an integral part of Chicago's culture, from its earliest venture into live television to the card sharps and hucksters lurking in its amusement parks and pool halls. David Witter keeps track of the shell game of Chicago's fascinating magic history from its vaudeville circuit to its contemporary resurgence.
Author : Jody Rosen
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008245916
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book White Christmas: The Story of a Song written by Jody Rosen and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it's the best song anybody ever wrote." Irving Berlin, 1942 A biography of the single most important record in the history of popular music
Author : Benjamin Sears
Publisher : OUP Us
ISBN 13 : 0195383745
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Irving Berlin Reader written by Benjamin Sears and published by OUP Us. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irving Berlin Reader offers fascinating glimpses the life and work of this most famous of American songwriters. Berlin is presented here in full through writings from his earliest years to the present, including Berlin's own thoughts on songwriting. Many of the articles are otherwise difficult or impossible to find, and all are expertly contextualized by Ben Sears's introductions.
Author : Gerald Kolpan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639360484
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Magic Words written by Gerald Kolpan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a riveting novel of love and adventure, young Julius Meyer comes to the New World to find himself acting as translator for the famed Indian chief Standing Bear. Young Jewish immigrant Julius comes of age surrounded by the wild world of 1867 Nebraska. He befriends the mysterious Prophet John, who saves his life when the two are captured by the Ponca Indian tribe. Living as a slave, Julius meets the noble chief Standing Bear and his young daughter, Prairie Flower, with whom he falls in love. Becoming the tribe’s interpreter—its “speaker”—his life seems safe and settled. But Julius has reckoned without the arrival of his older cousin, Alexander—who, as the Great Herrmann, is the most famous young magician in America. Nor does he suspect the ultimate consequences of Alex’s affair with Lady-Jane Little Feather, a glamorous—and murderous—prostitute destined to become the most scandalous woman on two continents. Filled with adventure, humor, and colorful characters, Magic Words is a riveting adventure about the nature of prejudice, the horror of genocide, and a courageous young man who straddles two worlds to fight for love and freedom.
Author : Gene N. Landrum
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595346979
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Superman Syndrome--The Magic of Myth in The Pursuit of Power written by Gene N. Landrum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Positive Mental Moxie of Myth for Personal Growth Joseph Campbell defined a myth as "a life-shaping image, a metaphor that creates a hero out of those who heed it." Author Dr. Gene Landrum takes Campbell's definition one step further by offering a variety of motivational techniques that will propel you to heroic success. Dr. Landrum describes the "superman syndrome" as a series of common behaviors that permit an otherwise average person to rise above the norm. He points out that some of the world's most renowned visionaries--Catherine the Great, Walt Disney, and Ian Fleming--did not conform to tradition because they modeled their behavior on heroic ideals and mythical mentors. Learn how to transform your life from ordinary to extraordinary by focusing on several key ideas: Chasing money is entropic and the path to the poorhouse Happiness is a side effect of being--never trying Romance only comes to those not trying to find romance Anxiety is a by-product of unrealistic expectations Breakdown leads to breakthrough Being stupid is the pathway to being smart Do you have the Superman Syndrome? Test yourself to find out!
Author : Robert Kimball
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557836816
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin written by Robert Kimball and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Gathered together in one volume for the first time, here are all of the incomparable song lyrics of Irving Berlin the lyrics of more than 1,200 songs, 400 of which have never before appeared in print along with anecdotal, historical, and musicological commentary and dozens of photographs. Berlin came from a poor immigrant family and began his career as a singing waiter, but by the time he was nineteen he was publishing his songs and quickly found fame with "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911. In the extraordinary six decades that followed, Berlin wrote one popular hit after another: Blue Skies * Always * Cheek to Cheek * White Christmas * God Bless America * There's No Business Like Show Business * and many more. He also wrote a number of the classics of musical theater's Golden Age, climaxing with Annie Get Your Gun . He penned three Astaire and Rogers films Top Hat, Carefree , and Follow the Fleet as well as the scores of Holiday Inn, Easter Parade , and other films. The breadth of his accomplishment is staggering.
Author : Jody Rosen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841156316
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (563 download)
Download or read book White Christmas written by Jody Rosen and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it's the best song anybody ever wrote. Irving Berlin, 1942. This book provides both the story behind the making of Irving Berlin's most memorable tune and a rich cultural history of the America that embraced it. When Irving Berlin first conceived the song White Christmas, he envisioned it as a throwaway - a satirical novelty number for a vaudeville-style stage review. By the time Bing Crosby introduced the song to the world in the winter of 1942, it was a yuletide ballad that would become the world's all-time top-selling and most frequently recorded song. Berlin, the Russian-Jewish immigrant who became America's greatest pop troubadour, had written his magnum opus - what one commentator has called a holiday Moby-Dick - a timeless song that resonates with some of the deepest strains in American culture: yearning for an idealised New England past, belief in the magic of the merry and bright Christmas season, longing for the sanctuaries of home and hearth. celebration but as the artistic and commercial peak of the golden age of popular song arising from the Jewish-American assimilation, and a symbol of the values and strivings of the World War II generation. This book traces the story of the song's making amid the vibrant world of mid-century Broadway and Hollywood, and provides a chronicle of the song's legacy through today, when Berlin's masterpiece endures as a secular hymn.
Author : Phillip Keveren
Publisher : Hal Leonard
ISBN 13 : 1705152651
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Magical Christmas written by Phillip Keveren and published by Hal Leonard. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Beginning Piano Solo Songbook). 15 yuletide songs arranged in that special Phillip Keveren style for early-level players, including: Believe * The Chipmunk Song * The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) * Do You Want to Build a Snowman? * Frosty the Snow Man * God Bless Us Everyone * Hot Chocolate * Jingle Bell Rock * Little Saint Nick * My Favorite Things * Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town * Silver Bells * Sisters * Somewhere in My Memory * Where Are You Christmas?
Author : Wilfrid Sheed
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588367223
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The House That George Built written by Wilfrid Sheed and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Big Spender,” from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen ran their fingers over piano keys, enticing unforgettable melodies out of thin air. Critically acclaimed writer Wilfrid Sheed uncovered the legends, mingled with the greats, and gossiped with the insiders. Now he’s crafted a dazzling, authoritative history of the era that “tripled the world’s total supply of singable tunes.” It began when immigrants in New York’s Lower East Side heard black jazz and blues–and it surged into an artistic torrent nothing short of miraculous. Broke but eager, Izzy Baline transformed himself into Irving Berlin, married an heiress, and embarked on a string of hits from “Always” to “Cheek to Cheek.” Berlin’s spiritual godson George Gershwin, in his brief but incandescent career, straddled Tin Pan Alley and Carnegie Hall, charming everyone in his orbit. Possessed of a world-class ego, Gershwin was also generous, exciting, and utterly original. Half a century later, Gershwin love songs like “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “The Man I Love,” and “Love Is Here to Stay” are as tender and moving as ever. Sheed also illuminates the unique gifts of the great jazz songsters Hoagy Carmichael and Duke Ellington, conjuring up the circumstances of their creativity and bringing back the thrill of what it was like to hear “Georgia on My Mind” or “Mood Indigo” for the first time. The Golden Age of song sparked creative breakthroughs in both Broadway musicals and splashy Hollywood extravaganzas. Sheed vividly recounts how Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer spread the melodic wealth to stage and screen. Popular music was, writes Sheed, “far and away our greatest contribution to the world’s art supply in the so-called American Century.” Sheed hung out with some of the great artists while they were still writing–and better than anyone, he knows great music, its shimmer, bite, and exuberance. Sparkling with wit, insight, and the grace notes of wonderful songs, The House That George Built is a heartfelt, intensely personal portrait of an unforgettable era. A delightfully charming, funny, and most illuminating portrait of songwriters and the Golden Age of American Popular Song. Mr. Sheed’s carefully chosen depictions and anecdotes recapture that amazingly creative period, a moment in time in which I was so fortunate to be surrounded by all that magic.” –Margaret Whiting
Author : Jason Pizzarello
Publisher : Stage Partners
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book How (Not) to Be A Wizard written by Jason Pizzarello and published by Stage Partners. This book was released on 2023-10-02 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a (magical) disaster! A school of wizardry needs a new professor...and classes start tomorrow. Everyone's coming through the portal for an interview, from a suspiciously fake-looking centaur to this one guy from Oz who can't even DO anything. Can anybody save the day? A spellbinding comedy that has created the completely new concept of a school for wizards and is definitely not making fun of anything in particular. No stage magic required. Comedy One-act.35-45 minutes 8-25+ actors (suggested casting: 18 any)
Author : Edward Jablonski
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555533663
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Harold Arlen written by Edward Jablonski and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
