Alix Cohen is the recipient of ten New York Press Club Awards for work published on this venue. [21], Oh, Lady! [56] Many of the biographical elements are fictionalized. [citation needed] He called himself a "musical clothier nothing more or less," and said, "I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays. James I Hessler (1910 - 2001) - Brush Prairie, WA Kern's exquisitely flowing melodies were employed to further the action or develop characterization. [4] His father relented, and later in 1902, Kern became a student at the New York College of Music, studying the piano under Alexander Lambert and Paolo Gallico, and harmony under Dr. Austin Pierce. Some of his most notable shows during this very productive period were as follows: During the last phase of his theatrical composing career, Kern continued to work with his previous collaborators but also met Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, with whom Kern wrote his most lasting, memorable, and well-known works. Barbette consulted on the creation of the film's circus sequence. Kern wrote well over 1000 songs, and though of course not all are memorable, finding 50 or 100 good ones is easy. [46], Their next film, Swing Time (1936) included the song "The Way You Look Tonight", which won the Academy Award in 1936 for the best song. Born in Syracuse, New York on 16 Oct 1910 to Orestes Felipe Deferro and Edith Frances Hessler. Simple! Gettysburg's Peach Orchard with James Hessler [1] His parents were Henry Kern (18421908), a Jewish German immigrant, and Fannie Kern ne Kakeles (18521907), who was an American Jew of Bohemian parentage. Oscar Hammerstein, Leo Robin, and E. Y. Harburg contributed lyrics for Kern's lovely music, resulting in the soulful ballad 'All Through the Day,' the rustic 'Cinderella Sue,' the cheerful 'Up With the Lark,' and the torchy 'In Love in Vain.'" He is the award-winning author of Sickles at Gettysburg (Savas Beatie, 2009), the recipient of the Bachelder Coddington Award and Gettysburg Civil War Round Table Distinguished Book Award, and co-author of Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg (Savas Beatie, 2015). One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "The Song Is You", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Long Ago (and Far Away)". Opening just before the stock market crash, it received rave reviews, but the elaborate, old-fashioned piece was a step back from the innovations in Show Boat, or even the Princess Theatre shows. (1918), to which he contributed only one song: "Go, Little Boat". Theater, music, art/design are lifelong areas of study and passion. "[11], The film earned $4,748,000 in the US and Canada box office and $1,976,000 elsewhere, but because of its high cost the profit was only $732,000.[4][12].
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