Ragtime and Tin Pan Alley were influential genres that emerged in the late 19th century. Ragtime originated in African American communities and was characterized by syncopated rhythms. It was mostly associated with piano music. Tin Pan Alley referred to the music publishing industry centered on West 28th Street in New York City. Songwriters would compose popular songs in a formulaic style, focusing on short, memorable choruses. Major composers like Scott Joplin, Ernest Hogan, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin emerged from Ragtime and Tin Pan Alley, helping to shape early 20th century popular music in America.
There are few things more precious and interesting than a Golden Age. There was a Golden Age of a particular kind of music that ran from the twenties through the fifties: the golden age of popular standards; the songs that constitute The Great American Song Book. These tunes were written by dapper, creative giants like Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, the Gershwins, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Charmichael, Jerome Kern, and Dorothy Fields. Urbane sophisticated talents who created a body of work that effortlessly captures that urbanity and sophistication.
They created tunes focused on the subject of romantic love and exploring all the stages and aspects of the arc of a great love affair: from the initial “walking on air” to the jaded ennui of “never again”. They were obsessed with this theme and subject. Describing, exploring, and driving deep into all its mysteries. These composers and lyricists were in love with Love.
These tunes wed lyrics and music into songs that were crafted by songwriting teams originally centered around Tin Pan Alley; The Brill Building on Broadway in Mid town Manhattan. These songwriting teams in many cases split the composing tasks along functional lines: one writing the music and on writing the lyrics. The composers were writing vehicles for others to perform and usually pitched the tunes in the context of a Broadway or Hollywood musical. They were cranking out tunes for the Hollywood and Broadway dream factories at a prodigious pace. They really worked! Cranking out so many songs, they have a tossed off, effortless quality and a guileless directness. They feel unpretentious and casual: genuine and authentic. But their craft and genius raise these songs to high art.
Many of these tunes became popular hits in their own right, lifted out of the shows and movies, and have been recorded by all the great performers. Fred Astaire debuted many of these tunes and was a favorite of the writing teams. He was known as much for his singing as his dancing! Diana Krall, Harry Connick Jr. and Michael Buble are some of the latest to pay homage to the songbook.
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A celebration of the life and works of one of the most prolific people of the "Roaring Twenties"; George Gershwin.
Links to audio:
1. Rhapsody in Blue -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U40xBSz6Dc
2. An American in Paris -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUfI6v6SwL4
3. Swanee -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsAokRY0ADQ
Presentation given in a general music methods course at the University of Miami on April 27, 2010. Topic is teaching jazz and blues in secondary general music courses.
Professor Silver's Lindy and Jazz 101: The Hop's History and Harlem's Heroes
Jazz Dance and Music History Lecture at You Should Be Dancing...! Studios on January 10, 2016.
There are few things more precious and interesting than a Golden Age. There was a Golden Age of a particular kind of music that ran from the twenties through the fifties: the golden age of popular standards; the songs that constitute The Great American Song Book. These tunes were written by dapper, creative giants like Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, the Gershwins, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Charmichael, Jerome Kern, and Dorothy Fields. Urbane sophisticated talents who created a body of work that effortlessly captures that urbanity and sophistication.
They created tunes focused on the subject of romantic love and exploring all the stages and aspects of the arc of a great love affair: from the initial “walking on air” to the jaded ennui of “never again”. They were obsessed with this theme and subject. Describing, exploring, and driving deep into all its mysteries. These composers and lyricists were in love with Love.
These tunes wed lyrics and music into songs that were crafted by songwriting teams originally centered around Tin Pan Alley; The Brill Building on Broadway in Mid town Manhattan. These songwriting teams in many cases split the composing tasks along functional lines: one writing the music and on writing the lyrics. The composers were writing vehicles for others to perform and usually pitched the tunes in the context of a Broadway or Hollywood musical. They were cranking out tunes for the Hollywood and Broadway dream factories at a prodigious pace. They really worked! Cranking out so many songs, they have a tossed off, effortless quality and a guileless directness. They feel unpretentious and casual: genuine and authentic. But their craft and genius raise these songs to high art.
Many of these tunes became popular hits in their own right, lifted out of the shows and movies, and have been recorded by all the great performers. Fred Astaire debuted many of these tunes and was a favorite of the writing teams. He was known as much for his singing as his dancing! Diana Krall, Harry Connick Jr. and Michael Buble are some of the latest to pay homage to the songbook.
**TAGS Extension**
A celebration of the life and works of one of the most prolific people of the "Roaring Twenties"; George Gershwin.
Links to audio:
1. Rhapsody in Blue -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U40xBSz6Dc
2. An American in Paris -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUfI6v6SwL4
3. Swanee -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsAokRY0ADQ
Presentation given in a general music methods course at the University of Miami on April 27, 2010. Topic is teaching jazz and blues in secondary general music courses.
Professor Silver's Lindy and Jazz 101: The Hop's History and Harlem's Heroes
Jazz Dance and Music History Lecture at You Should Be Dancing...! Studios on January 10, 2016.
32315 1 Origins of Rock ‘n’ Roll • Three musica.docxtamicawaysmith
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Origins of Rock ‘n’ Roll
• Three musical ancestors of Rock
– Country & Western
• Grand Ole Opry and image
• Controversial subjects in lyrics
– Rhythm & Blues
• 12-bar Blues, insistent rhythm, shout-style vocals
• Hokum, Boogie-woogie, Electric guitar
– Pop music
• Strong connection to jazz (Big Band Swing)
• Simple, catchy melodies
• 1950: all three coexisted in separate
markets
– Billboard magazine tracks sales of popular
music
– Separate charts for each genre
• By 1954, markets began to merge
• Crossovers: a crossover hit originates in
one market, but also succeeds in another
– “Earth Angel”—R&B song, made the pop
charts
– “Tennessee Waltz,” “Heartbreak Hotel”—
C&W hits, on pop charts
• Covers: an artist’s version of someone
else’s song
– “Earth Angel”—original by The Penguins
(R&B), covered by the Crew Cuts (Pop)
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Emergence of Youth Culture
• Prior to 1950s, entertainment industry aimed
at adults
• Mid-’50s: identifiable youth culture
– Movies present images of rebellious youths
• Rebel Without a Cause, Blackboard Jungle
• New role models, dress code, slang, hairstyles
• Black leather jacket, upturned shirt collar, slicked
back hair (“ducktail” or “d.a.”)
• Record companies realize teens have
disposable income
Bill Haley and The Comets
• Haley’s band started with C&W, began
covering R&B songs
– “Shake, Rattle, and Roll” orig. by Joe Turner
– “Rock Around the Clock” orig. by Sonny Dae
• Featured on soundtrack to Blackboard Jungle
• Two months at #1 on pop charts (1955)
• Haley, born in 1927, too old to be the new
face of youth culture
• Laid foundation for Rockabilly
– R&B material, with C&W sound
Elvis Presley (1935-’77)
l Raised
in
poor
family
from
Mississippi
– Elvis
absorbed
a
variety
of
musical
influences
l R&B,
gospel,
C&W,
bluegrass,
pop
l Discovered
while
making
a
recording
for
his
mom
– Memphis
Recording
Service
and
Sun
Records
l Right
voice
at
the
right
Cme
l White
singer
with
a
black
sound
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Sun Records
• Memphis, Tennessee
• Sam Phillips, founder
– Appreciated talents of R&B musicians
– Began recording them even before he started
his own label
• Brings the music to a wider audience
• Sun Records credited with discovering
Elvis
– “Hound Dog” (1957)
Importance of Elvis
l Flexible,
invenCve
vocal
style
– Always
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like
himself
l Wide
popular
appeal,
crossover
success
– Records
on
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pop,
and
R&B
charts
l Huge
commercial
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– Sold
over
500
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records
by
the
Cme
of
his
death
Mainstream Rock ‘n’ Roll
l (DJ Alan Freed, coined the term “Rock ‘n’ Roll”)
• Heavily influenced by R&B
– Little Ric ...
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8.1 objeCTives
• Basic knowledge of the history and origins of popular styles
• Basic knowledge of representative artists in various popular styles
• Ability to recognize representative music from various popular styles
• Ability to identify the development of Ragtime, the Blues, Early Jazz,
Bebop, Fusion, Rock, and other popular styles as a synthesis of both
African and Western European musical practices
• Ability to recognize important style traits of Early Jazz, the Blues, Big
Band Jazz, Bebop, Cool Jazz, Fusion, Rock, and Country
• Ability to identify important historical facts about Early Jazz, the Blues,
Big Band Jazz, Bebop, Cool Jazz, Fusion, and Rock music
• Ability to recognize important composers of Early Jazz, the Blues, Big
Band Jazz, Bebop, Cool Jazz, Fusion, and Rock music
8.2 Key Terms
• 45’s
• A Tribe Called Quest
• Alan Freed
• Arthur Pryor
• Ballads
• BB King
• Bebop
• Big Band
• Bluegrass
• Blues
• Bob Dylan
• Broadway Musical
• Charles “Buddy” Bolden
• Chestnut Valley
• Children’s Song
• Chuck Berry
• Contemporary Country
• Contemporary R&B
• Count Basie
• Country
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Understanding MUsic PoPUlar MUsic in the United states
8.3 inTroduCTion
Popular music is by definition music that is disseminated widely. As such, it
has been particularly significant with the twentieth-century proliferation of record-
ing technologies and mass media. Sometimes we may forget that it was not until
the 1920s that recording and playback technology allowed for the spread of music
through records. To become popular before that time, a tune had to be spread by
word of mouth, by traveling performers, and by music notation, which might ap-
pear in a music magazine or newspaper or in sheet music that could be bought at
general stores, catalogs, and music stores.
• Creole
• Curtis Blow
• Dance Music
• Dixieland
• Duane Eddy
• Duke Ellington
• Earth, Wind & Fire
• Elvis Presley
• Folk Music
• Frank Sinatra
• Fusion
• George Gershwin
• Hillbilly Music
• Honky Tonk Music
• Improvisation
• Jelly Roll Morton
• Joan Baez
• Leonard Bernstein
• Louis Armstrong
• LPs
• Michael Bublé
• Minstrel Show
• Musical Theatre
• Operetta
• Original Dixieland Jazz Band
• Oscar Hammerstein
• Protest Song
• Ragtime
• Rap
• Ray Charles
• Rhythm and Blues
• Richard Rodgers
• Ricky Skaggs
• Robert Johnson
• Rock and Roll
• Sampling
• Scott Joplin
• Scratching
• Stan Kenton
• Stan Kenton
• Stephen Foster
• Storyville
• Swing
• Syncopated
• The Beatles
• Victor Herbert
• Weather Report
• Western Swing
• William Billings
• WJW Radio
• Work Songs
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Understanding MUsic PoPUlar MUsic in the United states
Today the success of a popular music artist is most often measured by how
many songs they sell. In the past, that meant record and CD sales, but today it es-
sentially means numbers of downloads. Recording industry executives determine
which artis.
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Post World War II
Musical Modernism
The Media Revolution
• Record companies seek out niche markets
• Columbia, Paramount
• Many marketed and sold to a black audience
• “Race records” – became popular with white
audiences also
• “Hillbilly music” marketed to rural white
southerners
• continuation of pre-1920s fiddle tradition
• fiddle contests and medicine shows
• Unregulated Mexican radio stations
• could reach Canada and China
The Media Revolution
• 1946: Television industry begins
• By 1950s, TV common in most households
• Soap operas, sit coms, variety shows, mysteries
• Radio stations begin to play more pre-
recorded music
• Disc Jockeys (DJs) become important
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Record Formats
• 78 rpm records: 3-4 minutes of music
• Major record companies begin issuing
Long-Playing (LP) 33 rpm records
• Up to 26 min. per side (12”)
• Targeted at adults
• Often classical music, musical theater,
easy-listening
• 45 rpm Singles (7”)
• Marketed to teens
Pop Music
• Strong connection to Swing
• Continued innovations of popular
1930s vocalists
• Armstrong, Holiday, Bing Crosby
• Song Interpreters
• Each singer recognizable by their style
• Personality becomes part of the song
Pop Music
• Nat “King” Cole (1917-1965)
• Formed a popular jazz trio
• First black artist to host a TV show
• Several pop hits:
• “Straighten Up and Fly Right,” “Unforgettable”
• Frank Sinatra (1915-1998)
• Got his start singing with Big Bands
• Became a teen idol in early 1940s
• Formed his own record company
• “You Do Something to Me” (1950)
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Woody Guthrie (1912-’67)
• Lived a wandering life
• Hobo lifestyle, inspired his poetry
• Experiences during the Depression
• Dust bowl drought, New Deal politics, unions
• Political radical
• Lyrics about social justice, inequalities
• 1940: “This Land is Your Land” written in response to
Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America”
Woody Guthrie
• “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You” 1940
• Story about west Texas during the Dust Bowl
• Ironic jabs at religion and society
• influences folk-revivalists, singer-songwriters, and rock
musicians for years to come
Urban Folk Revival
• Guthrie, Pete Seeger form Almanac Singers
• Starts the urban folk revival
• Younger Americans seeking authenticity and
directness in music
• Qualities that were missing in pop music
• Folk songs let performers comment on current events
• Join political movements, play for rallies
• Songs of protest against social ills
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Country & Western
• Folk becomes Country
• Radio broadcasts
• Nashville becomes epicenter
• 1927: The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN
• Other barn-dance radio shows pop up
• Promotes “down home” image
• as opposed to European opera
• overalls, straw hats, etc.
Post-War Country Music
• Hank Williams and Kitty Wells
...
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
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This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
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2. Ragtime
• Most popular between 1895
and 1918
• Characterized by its
syncopated rhythms
• “the placement of rhythmic
stresses where they wouldn’t
normally occur” – what does
that mean?
• Let’s try…
• The Entertainer
• Almost always associated
with piano
• A tune could be “ragged” –
syncopate
3.
4. Background
• Origins
• St. Louis, MO and New Orleans, LA
• African American Red light Districts
• Dance Music
• Marches + African American Rhythms = birth of ragtime
• What is ragtime?
• Development
• Publishing
• Popular Entertainment
• Dance Example
5. Ernest Hogan
1865-1909
• First African American man to
produce and star in a Broadway
musical (The Oyster Man, 1907)
• The creator of ragtime (?)
• Coined the term ‘ragtime’
• From Bowling Green, KY
• Considered to be one of the
most talented performers and
comedians of his day
• (In)famous for writing the song
“All Coons Look Alike To Me”
• Hogan is an example of the
transition from Minstrelsy to
Ragtime as being the most
popular popular music.
6.
7. Scott Joplin
1868-1917
• By far, the most famous
composer and pianist in the
genre of ragtime
• From working family in Texas
• Went to the Chicago World
Fair in 1893
• Big role in ragtime craze by
1897
• Two most famous pieces:
• Maple Leaf Rag (1899)
• The Entertainer (1902)
• Also composed an opera:
• Treemonisha
8. Jelly Roll Morton
1890-1941
• Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
• A pivotal figure in early jazz
• Saw the transition from
ragtime into jazz
• Evolution from ragtime into
stride piano
• Tiger Rag
9. Player Piano
• http://youtu.be/ydcRAMZl0l0
• Popular from the late 1800s to
the late 1920s
• Rose in popularity along side
the standard upright piano
• If you were middle class or
higher, it was expected that
you have a piano in your home
• Player pianos were more
expensive; functional; no need
to hire someone to play all
night
• Paper roll with perforations
10. Leading up to Tin Pan Alley
• Music publishing after Civil War
• Variety shows (vaudeville); musical theatre; piano rolls;
home entertainment
• Big cities are publishing centers
• Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, etc
• New York City
• Harms brothers, 1881 – publishing firm, E. 14 th St.
• Others followed after their success
11. Tin Pan Alley
• c. 1885 to 1930-1950
• Rise of the radio and phonograph
= fall of T.P.A.
• Centered around W. 28th St,
between 5th and 6th Ave in NYC
• What is Tin Pan Alley?
• Commercial music
• Name possibly refers to the “tinny”
sound of low-quality upright
pianos; many pianos being played
• iTunes in 1915
• Song Pluggers: demonstrated
songs on the piano for buyers;
sometimes are also composers
12. How did popular songs become popular?
• Prior to 1920s/30s
• Theatre (musical theatre, vaudeville)
• Publishing
• Advertising
• 1920s/30s
• Phonographs
• Radio
• 1940s
• Radio
• 1950s
• Television
• Radio
13. Tin Pan Alley Songs
• Always
• Intro
• Verse(s)
• Chorus (repeated)
• Sometimes
• Outro
• Short Interludes
• Bridge (rare)
• Focus on the chorus
• How does the chorus function?
• Recording’s influence on production of songs
• Time limit
14. Hello! Ma Baby
• Joseph Howard, Ida Emerson;
1899
• A “Coon Song”
• Cover Depiction
• African American references in
lyrics
• First reference to the telephone
in popular music
• About a relationship that takes
place over the phone
15. Hello! My Baby (cont’d)
• Example 1
• Example 2
CHORUS
Hello! ma baby
Hello! ma honey
Hello! ma ragtime gal
Send me a kiss by wire
Baby, ma heart's on fire!
If you refuse me
Honey, you'll lose me
Then you'll be left alone
Oh, baby, telephone
And tell me I'm your own!
16. Take Me Out To The Ball Game
• Jack Norsworth, Albert von
Tilzer; 1908
• Unofficial “anthem” of
baseball
• Neither composer had ever
been to a baseball game
• Example 1
• Example 2
17. Irving Berlin
1888-1989
• Born in what is present day
Belarus
• Father moved family to America
• Very poor home life; difficult
childhood; very little education
• First job with music publisher at
age 18
• Wrote an estimated 1,500 songs
over the course of a 60 year
career
• Excellent ear for music, but not
‘trained;’ very little piano skills;
music in his head, not his hands
• Advised not to take composition
lessons later in life; worried that it
would “cramp his style”
18. Irving Berlin (cont’d)
• Went on to write 19 Broadway
musicals, 18 Hollywood films,
nominated 8 times for Academy
Awards
• Oscar for “Best Music in an Original
Song” – White Christmas
• Top Berlin Songs
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Blue Skies
White Christmas
You Can’t Get A Man With A Gun
Cheek to Cheek
There’s No Business Like Show Business
God Bless America
19. God Bless America
• Written in 1918
• Yip Yip Yaphank – not included
• Revised and popularized in 1938
• Kate Smith
• A “peace song” – what is happening
in 1938?
• Criticism from Woodie Guthrie
• Jingoistic?
• Response: This Land Is Your Land
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Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Example 5
20. Opinion Short Response
• Do you think that the meaning
and/or function of “God Bless
America” is inherently good or
bad? Explain why.
• Things to consider:
Unrealistic portrayal?
What do the lyrics imply?
How was the song used?
How is the song used in present
day?
• What message does the song
send?
• Is it something everyone can
relate to?
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While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer.
God bless America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her, and guide her
Through the night with a light from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam
God bless America, My home sweet home
God bless America, My home sweet home*
*last two lines original: God bless America, my
own sweet home
21. Jerome Kern
1885-1945
• Got his start in Tin Pan Alley,
but mostly recognized for his
contributions to Musical
Theatre
• More on him later…
22. Cole Porter
1892-1964
• Family and upbringing
• Distant father
• Spoiled mother
• Overbearing grandfather
• Disapproval of Music
• Worcester Academy and Yale
• Valedictorian
• Founding member of the
Whiffenpoofs
• President of the Yale Glee Club
• Harvard Law
• Change of heart
• But more on him later…
23. George Gershwin
1898-1937
From New York
Worked as a song plugger
Got his start in Tin Pan Alley
Primarily a musical theatre
composer
• Considered by many as a
‘hybrid’ between musical
theatre and classical
• More on him later…
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