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YA-More comprehensive on composers than lyricists, this volume offers a lively but thorough look at the movies and songs of 10 great songwriters including Berlin, Gershwin, Kern, Porter, and Rodgers. A biographical sketch leads the discussion and provides a historical context for the chapters that follow. Hemming covers both the composers' original works for Hollywood and the movie versions of their Broadway shows. An exhaustive listing of film titles, CDs, and audio collections follows each profile. Of value to students in many curricular areas, this highly readable resource, enhanced by more than 100 photographs, will deepen readers' knowledge of this popular field.
Margaret Nolan, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
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A unique and highly valuable work. . . . An authentic guide to an important aspect of American musical creativity in films. -- Adolph Green
An absolutely lovely guide and everything a fan could desire from a critical and cultural historian, including good sense and great taste. These are the classic composers-Hollywood immortals all-whose songs come back like a lump in the throat or a big bloomy feeling in the chest. . . . Hemming examines not only the film scores but their Broadway originals when there was one, what got dropped, what survived, and what new was added. -- Kirkus Reviews
An outstanding, accurate and joyful exploration of the work of the great songwriters for Hollywood's great musicals! . . . I love this book. -- Michael Feinstein
Roy Hemming displays the racy phrasemaking of a '30s lyricist. . . . A buoyant book, a crystallization in print of the frothy elegance that characterizes musicals at their best. -- Smithsonian Magazine
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YA-More comprehensive on composers than lyricists, this volume offers a lively but thorough look at the movies and songs of 10 great songwriters including Berlin, Gershwin, Kern, Porter, and Rodgers. A biographical sketch leads the discussion and provides a historical context for the chapters that follow. Hemming covers both the composers' original works for Hollywood and the movie versions of their Broadway shows. An exhaustive listing of film titles, CDs, and audio collections follows each profile. Of value to students in many curricular areas, this highly readable resource, enhanced by more than 100 photographs, will deepen readers' knowledge of this popular field.
Margaret Nolan, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
A unique and highly valuable work. . . . An authentic guide to an important aspect of American musical creativity in films. -- Adolph Green
An absolutely lovely guide and everything a fan could desire from a critical and cultural historian, including good sense and great taste. These are the classic composers-Hollywood immortals all-whose songs come back like a lump in the throat or a big bloomy feeling in the chest. . . . Hemming examines not only the film scores but their Broadway originals when there was one, what got dropped, what survived, and what new was added. -- Kirkus Reviews
An outstanding, accurate and joyful exploration of the work of the great songwriters for Hollywood's great musicals! . . . I love this book. -- Michael Feinstein
Roy Hemming displays the racy phrasemaking of a '30s lyricist. . . . A buoyant book, a crystallization in print of the frothy elegance that characterizes musicals at their best. -- Smithsonian Magazine
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music) by William A. Everett in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Alice Faye: A Life Beyond the Silver Screen (Hollywood Legends Series) by Jane Lenz Elder in Back Matter
- Word Crazy: Broadway Lyricists from Cohan to Sondheim by Thomas S. Hischak in Back Matter
- Skylark: The Life and Times of Johnny Mercer by Philip Furia in Back Matter
- The Musical: A Research Guide to Musical Theater and Film (Routledge Music Bibliographics) by William A Everett on page 70
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