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Composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II created it to bind their breakthrough Broadway musical Show Boat, giving it an almighty show-stopper - a faux spiritual of black suffering.


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Jerome Kern was born in New York City on January 27, 1885. Growing up in the middle-class atmosphere of East 56th Street, he attended public schools. His first music teacher was his mother, followed by studies at the New York College of Music (1902-3) and further musical studies in Heidelberg, Germany (1903-4).


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"Show Boat" was a testament to the courage of composer Jerome Kern, lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, and producer Florenz Ziegfeld. In an era of "willful nonsense," they.


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Jerome Kern, the composer, died yesterday at 1:10 P.M. of a cerebral hemorrhage in Doctors Hospital. His age was 60. At the bedside were his wife, Eva Leale Kern; his daughter, Elizabeth.


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Jerome David Kern was born in 1885. He began his stage career grafting American songs (for which he wrote the music) into imported European operettas. His breakthrough came with the song "They Didn't Believe Me", written (with lyrics by Edward Laska ) for a show called "The Girl from Utah". It established him as a major American composer in 1914.


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Jerome Kern is the subject of this biopic that MGM put together as an after thought because even though it's about the great composer's life, little is learned about him. The movie was directed by Richard Whorf as a great spectacle, one in which the magnificent talent employed by the studio is showcased interpreting Mr. Kern's music.


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Kern, Jerome views 2,994,301 updated May 18 2018 Jerome Kern Composer For the Record. Selected compositions Selected discography Sources When Jerome Kern died in 1945, America lost one of its greatest and most beloved composers.


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" The Way You Look To-night " is a song from the film Swing Time that was performed by Fred Astaire and composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. [6] [7] Fields remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry.


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Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 - November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.


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NEW YORK -- Jerome Kern, 60, composer of the musical hit, "Show Boat" and many popular songs died at 1 p.m. yesterday at Doctor's hospital where he was taken last week after he suffered a cerebral.


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Artist: Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II Reporter: Jeff Lunden Producer: Jeff Lunden Editor: Jeff Rogers Length: 12:30 Interviewees: Miles Kreuger, James Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, William.


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" Smoke Gets in Your Eyes " is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical Roberta. The song was sung in the Broadway show by Tamara Drasin.


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Jerome Kern, (born Jan. 27, 1885, New York City—died Nov. 11, 1945, New York City), one of the major U.S. composers of musical comedy, whose Show Boat (with libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II) inaugurated the serious musical play in U.S. theatre.


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Jerome Kern (January 27, 1885 - November 11, 1945) was an American composer of popular music and, according to a joint resolution passed by Congress, "the father of American musical theater". [1]


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Oscar Hammerstein II. Florenz Ziegfeld. Jerome David Kern was born in New York City. He studied piano with his mother and in high school was often asked to play piano and organ and compose music.


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Till The Clouds Roll By is a 1946 American Technicolor musical film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and a fictionalized biopic of composer Jerome Kern, portrayed by Robert Walker. Kern was involved with the production, but died before its completion. It was the first in a series of MGM biopics about Broadway composers. [1]

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