Word: kern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kern: Show Boat: Scenario for Orchestra (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 6 sides). The Show Boat tunes, some of the bravest in U.S. operetta, were dressed up last year by their composer in symphonic finery at the persuasion of Conductor Rodzinski. The resulting potpourri is lush, places Jerome Kern no whit nearer Beethoven as a symphonist, but Rodzinski's silky performance makes even more apparent Kern's Schubertian gift for melody...
...based on a halfdozen or so leading melodies. The music at times smacks strongly of Handel, especially in the spirited little military prelude with its trumpet flourishes, and in the long sensuous string melodies that recur so frequently. At other times it recalls the jazz idiom of composers like Kern and Gershwin. On occasion it is extremely lovely, but it is always ingratiating and vocal, and expertly matched to the text. The vocal line alternates roughly between recitative and air, but the alternation is unobtrusive, and poses no problems for the accomplished cast which the Society has assembled for this...
Artie Shaw, mercurial bandleader, married Elizabeth Jane Kern, daughter of Jerome Kern, in Yuma, Ariz. Exes: Cinemactress Lana Turner, Cinedirector Richard Alan Green...
...Jerome Kern, whose tune, The Last Time I Saw Paris, was judged the best song in 1941 films (actually Hollywood had its nerve in claiming this nostalgic hit, since it was published without movie sponsorship a full year before it was borrowed for Lady Be Good...
...Last week W. R. Grace & Co.'s Cecil Kern began a campaign to lower the U.S. duty, kill the quota regulations on Peru's long-staple cotton. These limitations (dear to U.S. cotton Congressmen) normally keep U.S. imports to only 4,000 bales out of Peru's total crop of over 300,000 bales...