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Irving Berlin (born Israel Beilin; Yiddish: ישראל ביילין; [1] May 11, 1888 [2] – September 22, 1989) was an American composer and songwriter. His music forms a large part of the Great American Songbook. Berlin received numerous honors including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and a Tony Award. He also received the Presidential ...
According to the New York Public Library, whose Irving Berlin collection comprises 555 non-commercial recordings radio broadcasts, live performances, and private recordings, [4] he published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907 and had his first major international hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", in 1911.
Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin [30] 2014 A musical biography, character study and piano performance of songwriter Irving Berlin Our Great Tchaikovsky [31] 2017 The story of Tchaikovsky brought to life through music and characterization A Paris Love Story [32] 2019 Felder portrays pianist Claude Debussy in Paris. Anna & Sergei [33] 2021
Irving Berlin circa 1920. Irving Berlin 's 100th Birthday Celebration was a concert special held in his honor at Carnegie Hall on May 11, 1988. [1] It was aired on CBS television two weeks later, on May 27. [2] At the 40th annual Emmy Awards later that summer, on August 28, it won two Emmys for outstanding variety, music or comedy program.
I Want to Go Back to Michigan is a song by Irving Berlin composed in 1914. It was a moderate commercial success when it was first released with popular versions by Elida Morris and by Morton Harvey. [1] Afterwards it became a staple in vaudeville. Its most famous performance was by Judy Garland in the film Easter Parade. [2]
Irving Berlin. " Alexander's Ragtime Band " is a Tin Pan Alley song by American composer Irving Berlin released in 1911; it is often inaccurately cited as his first global hit. [ a ][ 5 ] Despite its title, the song is a march as opposed to a rag and contains little syncopation. [ 6 ] The song is a narrative sequel to Berlin's earlier 1910 ...
His biography, James Agee: A Life, was a New York Times “Notable Book” for 1984. As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin, appeared in 1990. It won the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award and the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award; it was also a New York Times "Notable Book" for 1990. In 1994, he published Capone: The Man and the Era.
As Thousands Cheer is a revue with a book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, first performed in 1933. The revue contained satirical sketches and witty or poignant musical numbers, several of which became standards, including "Heat Wave", "Easter Parade" and "Harlem on my Mind". The sketches were loosely based on the news and ...