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Irving Berlin. American musical theater composer Irving Berlin was born Israel Baline, in eastern Russia on May 11, 1888, the youngest of six children of Jewish cantor, Moses Baline, who brought his family to New York in 1893. When his father died a few years later, Israel left school and helped support the family as a busker, entertaining with ...
Early Career & Tin Pan Alley (1888 to 1915) Berlin began life as Israel Beilin in 1888, half-a-world away in a small Jewish enclave in the Russian Empire. His exact birthplace is unknown. His family had its roots in Byelorussia (Tolochin in present-day Belarus, about halfway between Moscow and the Polish border), though he may have been born in ...
歐文·柏林. 歐文·柏林 （英語： Irving Berlin ，1888年5月11日—1989年9月22日）， 俄羅斯 出生的 美國 作曲家 ， 作詞家 ，被廣泛認為是美國歷史上最偉大的詞曲作家。. 他在1907年出版了的第一首歌曲《Marie from Sunny Italy》，他的第一個重大國際性歌曲，是1911年的 ...
Berlin enlisted the United States Army infantry in World War I, and was a sergeant at Camp Upton, New York. After the war, he established his own public-relations firm, and in 1921, he built the 1025-seat Music Box Theatre (at 239 W. 45th Street, New York) with Sam H. Harris.
Irving Berlin’s popular music served as a social barometer for much of the 20th century: it marched to war with soldiers, offered hope and inspiration to a nation in bleak times, and rejoiced in ...
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) was born under the name of Israel Beilin in the Russian Empire. His family emigrated to America when he was 5. In abject poverty in New York, he took
According to the New York Public Library, whose Irving Berlin collection comprises 555 non-commercial recordings radio broadcasts, live performances, and private recordings, he published his first song, "Marie from Sunny Italy", in 1907 and had his first major international hit, "Alexander's Ragtime Band" in 1911.
