Related Books

Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook from Gershwin to Sondheim
Language: en
Pages: 737
Authors: Rob Kapilow
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-05 - Publisher: Liveright Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Finalist • The Marfield Prize [National Award for Arts Writing] “Not since the late Leonard Bernstein has classical music had a combination salesman-teacher
Sondheim
Language: en
Pages: 524
Authors: Stephen M. Silverman
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-19 - Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Lively, sophisticated, and filled with first-person tributes and glorious images, Sondheim: His Life, His Shows, His Legacy lifts the curtain on a Broadway lege
Closer Than Ever
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Joshua Rosenblum
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides a unique chronicle and analysis of the work of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire, an extraordinary Broadway songwriting team whose work is
Harold Arlen and His Songs
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Walter Frisch
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Jazz Age Chicago
Language: en
Pages: 176
Authors: Joseph Gustaitis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-17 - Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

When people imagine 1920s Chicago, they usually (and justifiably) think of Al Capone, speakeasies, gang wars, flappers and flivvers. Yet this narrative overlook