The man that got away : the life and songs of Harold Arlen /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rimler, Walter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Series:Music in American life.
Subjects:
Arlen, Harold, > 1905-1986.
Composers > United States > Biography.
Compositeurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Voice.
MUSIC > Lyrics.
MUSIC > Printed Music > Vocal.
Composers.
United States.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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