Kern, Jerome (1885-1945)
Jerome Kern was one of the most significant composers for Broadway and Hollywood. With his string of Princess Theater musicals, the immortal musical Show Boat (1927), and his ...
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Jerome David Kern (1885-1945), American composer, wrote the scores for several of the musical theater's greatest successes.Jerome Kern was born in New York City on Jan. 27, 1885. His first music teach...
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Jerome David Kern, one of the leading American popular-song writers of the twentieth century, wrote more than 1,000 songs for 104 shows and movies. Most of these songs have been forgotten, but million...
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Feeling a little lost in love? Let the smooth sounds of Juilliard students covering songs from Bruce Springsteen to Leonard Bernstein soothe your aching heart at the New York Festival of Song's "A ...
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Today is Saturday, Dec. 27, the 362nd day of 2008. There are four days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 27, 1968, Apollo 8 and its three astronauts made a safe, nighttime splas...
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Nov 4 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on November 11 since 1900: 1918 - The First World War ended at 11 a.m; the armistice
was signed in a railway carriage at C...
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Today is Thursday, Dec. 27, the 361st day of 2007. There are four days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 27, 1932, Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City.On this date:In ...
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The screen persona of Fred Astaire is more enduringly charismatic than that of any other musical performer in the history of the medium. Yet, the now-celebrated report on his
Hollywood screen test...
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Here I am again, reluctantly counting my losses. Beloved, hated or just plain “Who cares?”, more celebrated people died in 2007 than any year in my memory. I always forget somebody, but...
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Chita!Like Madonna, Marlene or Liza, one name says it all. And there is room for only one. She shines. She sparkles. She glows. She lights up a room. Singer, dancer, actress, chorus girl and star, ...
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The tree is in the trash, the New Year's hangovers are fading and the leftover Perrier-Jouët is ready for that back shelf in the fridge, but before we begin anew, it's a good time to raise a g...
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The story goes that when he was being wheeled into the brain surgery that led to his death, the legendary jazz drummer and big-band icon Buddy Rich was asked by the attending nurses if he was aller...
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