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