Jerome Kern

  • Jerome Kern
    By Stephen Banfield

    Casting must have been done in early winter, when Queenie Smith was free of her previous engagement, the musical Helen of Troy, which closed in New York on 1 December 1923.7 Smith, who went on to appear in further musicals, ...

  • Jerome Kern
    By Michael Freedland

    Captures Kern's many-faceted personality--influential songwriter, collector of rare books, stamps, and coins, and brilliant conversationalist--and recreates the sparkling musical era in which he lived

  • Jerome Kern
    By Stephen Banfield

    " His 1927 Show Boat with Oscar Hammerstein II helped to set a new standard for musical theater. This book is the first to provide a critical overview of Kern's musical accomplishments throughout his career.

  • Jerome Kern: His Life and Music
    By Gerald Martin Bordman

    In what has become the biography of the father of American musical theatre, Gerald Bordman demonstrates a keen understanding and sympathy for Kern the man, as well as Kern the...

  • Jerome Kern: Easy Piano
    By John Brimhall

    John Brimhall has arranged 18 great songs written by one of America's leading composers, Jerome Kern.