Word: kern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yankees for Bobby Murcer; to Angels for Mickey Rivers and Ed Figueroa; went to the White Sox with Thad Bosley and Dick Dotson for Chris Knapp, Dave Frost and Brian Downing; traded to Texas for Claudell Washington and Rusty Torres; went to Cleveland with Len Barker for Jim Kern and Larvell Blanks; 90. Harvey Kuenn sent to Cleveland for Rocky Colavito, who went to Detroit; 91. Dartmouth; 92. Columbia; 93. California; 94. Duke; 95. UCLA; 96. UMass; 97. UNH; 98. U. Western Michigan; 99. University of South Alabama; 100. Pete Varney; 101. Rich Reese; 102. Tom Zachry; 103. Jack Billingham...
Without the American musical theater there might not be any American theater. Except for a very occasional O'Neill or Williams, the great writers of the U.S. stage have not been playwrights but composers and lyricists: Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, to name but a few. Beginning with the first modern musical, Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat (1927), these writers have created a durable and increasingly versatile native art form. Broadway musicals at their best fuse music, dance, drama and plain old show...
DIED. Guy Bolton, 96, grand old man of the Broadway musical who, with his fellow Englishman P.G. Wodehouse, wrote the books for shows with tunes by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern; in London. Bolton collaborated on works that were vehicles for Gertrude Lawrence (Oh, Kay!), Ethel Merman (Anything Goes) and Fred Astaire (Lady, Be Good!), as well as the recently revived Very Good Eddie...
...America's nonclassical singers: figures like Mabel Mercer, Tony Bennett and Ray Charles, who straddle the worlds of theater tunes, blues and popular standards. They work within a rich tradition that came out of ragtime and came in with the fascinating rhythms of George Gershwin and Jerome Kern. The early singers were "intuitive and homemade," Balliett observes, but their descendants are sophisticated musicians who blend the soft contours of the Bing Crosby crooners with the hard blues of Billie Holiday...
...want to catch Kern one more time before he disappears forever, I suggest you hurry-up-and-buy-tickets to the Elvis Costello/Nick Lowe/Mink DeVille concert, which will be at the Orpheum on May 4. I'll be there, as will be 2000 other smart people, including Kern (who wasn't at the Patti Smith/Ian Dury concert, and boy was that a mistake...