The Man That Got Away : The Life and Songs of Harold Arlen /
Over the Rainbow, "Stormy Weather," and "One for My Baby" are just a few of Harold Arlen's well-loved compositions. Yet his name is hardly known--except to the musicians who venerate him. At a gathering of songwriters George Gershwin called him "the best of us." Ir...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Buffalo, NY
- New York, NY
- "Get happy"
- The Cotton Club
- Anya
- "Stormy weather"
- On Broadway with Ira and Yip
- "Last night when we were young"
- Marriage
- Death of Gershwin
- Hooray for what!
- The wizard of Oz
- An itinerant songwriter
- Writing with Johnny Mercer
- "One for my baby"
- "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive"
- St. Louis woman
- Descent into misery
- "She was sweet and adorable and then she went mad"
- A star is born
- House of flowers
- In search of fame
- An opera
- Two debacles
- The 1960s
- Waiting.