Word: kern
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...tradition of concert revivals - in which the principals wear evening clothes and carry the script (though they have memorized their parts), while a couple dozen musicians saw away at the original orchestrations - is a distinguished one. Jerome Kern's 1985 centenary cued four glittery restorations of his early Princess Theatre musicals at New York's Carnegie Hall. These were the shows (with book and lyrics by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse) whose Held-girl-slim plots, witty rhymes and gorgeous scores created the form of the Broadway musical comedy. John McGlinn's meticulous orchestrations, and showstopping turns by Judy Kaye...
...simple enough - get the sheet music, assemble a band and a cast, and start playing. Not always. A 17th century Monteverdi opera has cleaner, fuller charts than many an old Broadway hit, whose arrangements might have ended up in the garage or the garbage. The sheet music for the Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II "Sweet Adeline," which had been performed outdoors, was festooned with mosquito carcasses. As Judith Daykin, who brought the series to City Center, told TIME's Elaine Rivera for an Encores! story we did in 1998: "The musicians didn't know if it was a note...
...guys who mentored him was defensive tackle R. D. Kern ’01, who brought him up to speed on the pace of the college game...
...kind of take a few plays off here or there but in college you have to go 100 percent the whole time. You have to have your motor running the whole time at a very high level to even be average out there, let alone be successful. I think [Kern] taught me that right...
Event co-chairs Kern Chen ’05 and Liane Young ’04 said in an e-mail that they believed the event reached its fundraising goal of $50,000, which will go to the Jimmy Fund at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...