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Jerome Kern was born into a middle-class family in New York City in eighteen eighty-five. Jerome's mother, Fanny, loved the piano. She began to teach Jerome how to play when he was very young. He became a fair piano player but not so good that anyone expected him to become a great musician. Jerome was a quiet boy and not a top student.
By THE NEW YORK TIMES. 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 Kern, former wife of Artie Shaw, the bandleader, and Oscar Hammerstein 2d, producer and song writer, who was closely associated with Mr ...
Jerome Kern. Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) is regarded as one of the key composers at the beginning of the American popular song era. Because his career was still in the early stages when Irving Berlin revolutionized the music scene with Alexander’s Ragtime Band, Kern quickly adapted to the changing styles.
Dec 31, 2020 · Jerome Kern (1885-1945) wrote “They Didn’t Believe Me” for a Broadway show called The Girl from Utah in 1914. The song consisted of sixteen bars, half the length of the standards to come. But Kern’s melody and its harmonic and rhythmical possibilities made it the prototype of the modern ballad. “No one had begun writing real songs in ...
It was composer Jerome Kern (1885-1945) who convinced her otherwise. He and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) agreed to write a new kind of show, one that would forever change the face of American musicals. Kern assured her that he and Hammerstein would concentrate on bringing Ferber's complex story to life in music, a story line that ...
Jerome Kern. Jerome Kern (1934) Jerome Kern was an American songwriter. He was born in New York City on January 27, 1885 and died in New York City on November 11, 1945 at the age of 60. [1] Jerome Kern is often called the father of American musical theater. Kern is remembered for the hundreds of songs he wrote for musical plays and movies.
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