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That song was almost scrapped. Hamlisch had written it before the film was shot. When Streisand was ready to make the record four months later, says Hamlisch, "she asked me to compose something more complex." It took lyrical persuasion by the composer to convince the star that simplicity counts.
Booze was about the only thing the Duke ever retired from. He was an unceasing forward mover in a career that spanned two World Wars, that took him from the streets of his native Washington, D.C., to dinner dates at the White House and that saw him compose such jazz...
When Stevie turned 21, he rebelled against Motown. Yearning for a chance to experiment and weary of the record company's predilection for formula Top-40 hits, Wonder came to his contract-renewal sessions in 1971 demanding his own publishing company, higher royalties and the right to compose his...
Sadly, the book does not reflect the enormous contribution that foreigners have made to the development of music. Only two of the 36 songs--"Frere Jacques" and "Au Clair de la Lune"--were not written by Americans. The book, for example, includes the work of Al Jolson ("California Here I...
HARVARD ADMINISTRATORS have never quite known what to do with Expository Writing. Since it was instituted some 70 years ago, the program has undergone three or four reforms, in the perennial hope of teaching freshmen how to compose decent English without killing their interest in the process. In 1930, when...