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* Read ^ The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty by Wilfrid Sheed ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty Broke but eager, Izzy Baline transformed himself into Irving Berlin, married an heiress, and embarked on a string of hits from “Always” to “Cheek to Cheek.” Berlin’s spiritual godson George Gershwin, in his brief but incandescent career, straddled Tin Pan Alley and Carnegie Hall, charming everyone in his orbit. Sheed vividly recounts how Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer spread the melodic wealth to stage and screen.Popular music was, writ
| Title | : | The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.31 (557 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812970187 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 335 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-07 |
| Language | : | English |
A song in his heart This is a book about the composers of America's most popular popular music, the music that came into being from roughly 1920 to 1950. It is not a formal treatise or scholarly study but rather a kind of fan's notes ramble, an enthusiastic exuberant high- spirited riff. English- born novelist, essayist Sheed shows great love for , and tremendous knowledge of American popular song. He writes with worshipful insight of the two greatest of the founding fathers of this particular American g. "Wonderful words about marvelous music--and words." according to M. Robinson. A fantastic foray through the lives and art of the men and women who created the Great American Song Book. Do you know about Hyman Arluck, Israel Baline, Edward Chester Babcock, Salvatore Guaragna, Burton Levy, and Vladimir Dukelsky? More than you think and much less than you'll discover in this brilliantly writter multi-biography.. He knows the score (but that's not quite enough any more). Sheed is a witty, but not self-indulgently or distractingly so, prose "stylist," not a musician. In that capacity he's "like" a jazz musician riffing on a familiar theme (it's tough to come up with new material about the Great American Songbook and its composers) and of particular use to those readers who love the music and wish to express what it means to them as much as it expresses its meanings to them. Sheed is such a reader's "voice," and probably a more welcome one than that of
Broke but eager, Izzy Baline transformed himself into Irving Berlin, married an heiress, and embarked on a string of hits from “Always” to “Cheek to Cheek.” Berlin’s spiritual godson George Gershwin, in his brief but incandescent career, straddled Tin Pan Alley and Carnegie Hall, charming everyone in his orbit. Sheed vividly recounts how Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, and Johnny Mercer spread the melodic wealth to stage and screen.Popular music was, writes She
He lives with his wife, Miriam Ungerer, in North Haven, New YorkFrom the Hardcover edition.. Wilfred Sheed is the author of six novels, two of which, Office Politics and People Will Always Be Kind, were nominated for National Book Awards. He has written three collections of criticism, one of which was nomi
Composer Arthur Schwartz recalled that he dashed off the tune in 20 minutes after lyricist Howard Dietz casually remarked, What is life but dancing in the dark? Beginning with Gershwin and Irving Berlin, Sheed quotes numerous lyrics throughout his lilting, witty profiles (of Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, Richard Rodgers and others), plus brief comments on 57 more. Sheed soars on the wings of song with scintillating, lyrical writing. In this book, he employs an informal, anecdotal approach as he looks back at the top tunesmiths of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and Hollywood. From
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