Search results for "Great American Songbook" - New World Encyclopedia
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- been admitted into the unofficial Great American Songbook. Oscar Hammerstein ... as Christians. His grandfather was the great opera impresario and theater ...8 KB (1,265 words) - 04:35, 18 November 2022
- of the supreme interpreters of the Great American Songbook. ... of the cultural canon known as the Great American Songbook. ...18 KB (2,942 words) - 17:12, 13 February 2024
- known as Leadbelly or Lead Belly, was an American folk musician, notable for ... colorful, albeit notorious figures in American folk music. After spending ...14 KB (2,199 words) - 18:43, 25 October 2022
- 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer and songwriter, an ... Stars & Hank Forever: The American Composers Series. ...23 KB (3,620 words) - 03:08, 28 January 2022
- 1899 – May 24, 1974) was the foremost American jazz composer, pianist, ... cultural canon known as the "Great American Songbook." ...22 KB (3,452 words) - 17:20, 12 February 2024
- Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American folklorist ... traditions for the library’s Archive of American Folk Music, and seventeen ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 04:32, 17 June 2023
- music stylism and the robust sounds of American jazz, Gershwin created a ... Gershwins’ songs on her 1959 Gershwin Songbook (arranged by Nelson Riddle ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 13:20, 30 December 2022
- Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American film ... the most celebrated songs from the Great American Songbook, including Cole ...26 KB (3,902 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- that the term has racial overtones. As an American stylism, Dixieland music ... traditional bands plus many of the Great American Songbook selections from ...17 KB (2,609 words) - 16:20, 29 January 2024
- half-dozen contributors to the Great American Songbook. ... that have since become part of the Great American Songbook—"Begin The ...27 KB (4,506 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- 5, 1956) was an outstanding African-American jazz pianist. Art Tatum ... Tatum would have a great influence on later jazz pianists, such as ...16 KB (2,414 words) - 12:07, 7 November 2021
- 25, 1995) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress ... some celebrated numbers from the Great American Songbook, songs such as Harry ...15 KB (2,082 words) - 07:46, 24 January 2023
- 1, 1904 - c. December 15, 1944), was an American jazz musician and bandleader ... Army and forming what became known as the American Band of the Allied Expeditionary ...15 KB (2,252 words) - 17:09, 16 December 2022
- 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer ... to document because of a strike by the American Federation of Musicians ...17 KB (2,690 words) - 00:38, 5 December 2023
- Cassotto) was one of the most popular American, big band performers and ... a legacy was "to be remembered as a great entertainer, and a human ...16 KB (2,577 words) - 08:44, 16 November 2023
- 1904 – April 26, 1984) was a prominent American jazz pianist and band leader ... union of opposites characteristic of much great art: His crisp, contrapuntal ...17 KB (2,747 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- to the Metropolitan Opera and site of the American Ballet Theater's annual ... for the Performing Arts, and School of American Ballet. ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 07:39, 9 March 2023
- html Tony Bennett, Champion of the Great American Songbook, Is Dead at 96] ... , or song choice (generally the Great American Songbook) were necessary ...61 KB (9,033 words) - 20:13, 12 September 2023
- who were opposed to the policies of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). history of industrial unionism and of the American labor movement in general. ...43 KB (6,639 words) - 20:09, 4 March 2024
- publicly in grade four, singing the Irish-American lullaby "Too Ra Loo ... at this time was 19th-century master American songwriter Stephen Foster. ...65 KB (9,151 words) - 15:55, 15 May 2023
