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DIED. E.Y. ("Yip") Harburg, 82, song lyricist who wrote the witty, often wistful words to the movie musical The Wizard of Oz and to Broadway's Finian's Rainbow, as well as to such tunes as It's Only a Paper Moon and April in Paris; in an automobile accident; in Los Angeles. The New York City-born Harburg, who won an Academy Award in 1939 for Oz's Over the Rainbow, remained productive and outspoken through the '60s and '70s, deploring the newer generations of songsmiths for their "lack of craftsmanship, their imitative...
...Sondheim has succeeded by overstepping the bounds of creative humility. Side by Side in and of itself works by taking the opposite approach. The show is professional but low-key, and unpompous narrator Patrick Harris tells anecdotes from the lyricist's life (memorable things Sondheim said, stories from his youth, the tale of his early humiliation by master songwriter Oscar Hammerstein) and then carries over the casual tone into his introductions of the next few songs...
...Broadway shows as Cabaret and Zorba won him six Tony Awards; in Nyack, N.Y. An art student in Moscow and Paris before coming to New York in 1923, Aronson designed more than 100 theater, opera and ballet productions in 50 years, including a distinguished series of collaborations with Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim (Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures...
...vocalist-guitarist-lyricist Steve Cataldo and his evilly piercing stare, the Eaters have produced a surprising but not unpleasant mixture of music to dance to and music to read Ec 10 by. The album--it's the one with teeth-marks on the cover--contains 12 cuts: five, such as the aptly titled "Get Stuffed," are straight, cut-and-slash rock and roll. Most of the rest are gentle, inoffensive love-melodies that would bring smiles to grandma as she makes Minuteman Lemonade for granddad on the porch, and tears from heart-struck pre-pubescents. These are girl songs--from...
...open up an interesting game: select the poet who goes with the President. Thus James Dickey probably would belong more with Lyndon Johnson than with Carter; Rod McKuen might be Carter's bard (although the President's favorite poet, officially, is Dylan Thomas). Ronald Reagan's lyricist might have been the late Oscar Hammerstein II; he would have to pick another. Eisenhower's? Edgar Guest. J.F.K.'s? Another lyricist, perhaps: Alan Jay Lerner. Harry Truman's? Edgar Lee Masters. Richard Nixon's? Imamu Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones). Eugene McCarthy's? Eugene McCarthy...