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  Jerome Kern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jerome Kern was born in New York City.
Although Kern generally wrote for musical theatre, the harmonic richness of his compositions lend themselves well to the jazz idiom, which typically emphasizes improvisation based on a harmonic structure — many have been adopted by jazz musicians and have become standard tunes.
Jerome Kern died from a heart attack at the age of 60 in New York.
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 Kern - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Kern is also a light infantry unit in Medieval Irish armies.
Kern is a word commonly used within the Eastern side of Australian.
The definition of Kern is literally beautiful freak, used to define a person who is either physically attractive but is a "bad" person or someone who is physically unattractive but is a "good" person.
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 Jerome Kern - Potted Biography - The Guide to Musical Theatre
Jerome Kern was born in 1885 in New York, to a first generation Jewish-German family.
England became a turning point in Jerome Kern's life for another reason: it was there he met his wife Eva, whom he married in 1910.
Kern felt the younger man had usurped his role as Oscar Hammerstein's collaborator; not unnaturally, he was jealous of the partners' recent success with Oklahoma!
www.nodanw.com /biographies/kernjerome.htm   (657 words)

  
 Oscar Hammerstein on Jerome Kern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1945, Kern came East from California not only to attend rehearsals of a revival of SHOW BOAT but also in connection with the score he was about to write, ANNIE OAKLEY, marking his return to Broadway.
Kern expressed her gratitude, the nurse answered simply that he had given so much pleasure to her and to the world that she thought she would like to give something to him.
Jerome Kern died at 1:10 P.M. on November 11, 1945 of a cerebral thrombosis at Doctor's Hospital, East End Avenue and Eighty-eighth Street.
www.thepeaches.com /music/composers/OscarOnJerome.html   (677 words)

  
 Broadway: The American Musical . Stars Over Broadway . Jerome Kern | PBS
The centennial of Kern's birth was celebrated in 1985, which saw the issuing of a U.S. Postage stamp in his honor, as well as the release of more recordings and performances of his music.
Jerome David Kern was born in New York City.
Kern enrolled in the New York College of Music in 1902 and in 1903 went abroad to study music in Germany.
www.pbs.org /wnet/broadway/stars/kern_j.html   (960 words)

  
 Jerome Kern
Kern liked Dorothy's work on this number, and on her rewriting of I Won't Dance, also for Roberta.
Since Hammerstein, his regular partner was not enamoured of Hollywood, Kern was delighted to establish a new partnership with Dorothy.
A new Kern song, like a new Hemingway novel, is, at least in the field of aesthetics and ruthlessness, news of a stop-presses nature.
www.dorothyfields.co.uk /c_kern.htm   (748 words)

  
 ASCAP Member Profiles Spotlights - Jerome Kern
Jerome Kern was born in 1885 in New York City and grew up in Midtown Manhattan where he attended public schools.
The year 1925 was a turning point in Kern's career when he met Oscar Hammerstein II, which sparked a friendship and collaboration that lasted his entire life.
Kern is credited and widely respected for bridging the stylistic gap between the European operetta tradition and the American musical, using musical song to advance plot and character.
www.ascap.com /musictheatre/memberspotlights/kern.html   (230 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : Jerome Kern : Biography
American composer Jerome Kern was trained at home by his mother, then went on for formal study at the New York College of Music and at Heidelberg University.
Kern had just inherited Annie Get Your Gun from the too-busy Rodgers and Hammerstein, and was busy fashioning songs to suit the style of star Ethel Merman, when he died suddenly at the age of 60 (he was succeeded on Annie Get Your Gun by Irving Berlin).
Jerome Kern was portrayed on screen by a grey-templed Robert Walker in the 1946 biopic Till the Clouds Roll By.
www.vh1.com /movies/person/85903/bio.jhtml   (394 words)

  
 Songwriters Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1927, Kern teamed with Oscar Hammerstein II and the two adapted Edna Ferber's novel into one of the greatest of all American musicals: Show Boat.
Returning to Broadway in 1939, Kern helped produced his last show: Very Warm for May. While the show was not successful, the score introduced one of the classic Hammerstein-Kern standards, “All the Things You Are”.
Jerome Kern died in New York City on November 11, 1945.
www.songwritershalloffame.org /exhibit_home_page.asp?exhibitId=67   (530 words)

  
 Jerome Kern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jerome Kern was involved in music from a very young age.
Kern had some troubled times on Broadway in the late 1930s, so he moved to Hollywood to write for films.
Unfortunately Kern met an unexpected death in 1945 in New York, where he was appearing for a revival of Show Boat.
www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/appendix/Composers/K/JeromeKern.html   (272 words)

  
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Jerome Kern has brought to the treasury of American Song the wealth of his own great talent, and he's enriched the American scene for his being part of it.
Jerome David Kern was born on January 27, 1885 in New York City.
Kern's Broadway career was now in full swing, and climaxed in 1927 with Show Boat, one of the most popular American musical plays of all time.
www.classicmoviemusicals.com /compk.htm   (807 words)

  
 Great Performances . Artists . Jerome Kern | PBS
A year later, Kern took a job at another music publisher, T. Harms and Co. -- which eventually became the publisher of his own works- -and continued writing musical interpolations for British shows.
Lady!!," were distinguished by a new approach to musical theater, developed by Kern in collaboration with librettist Guy Bolton, and, beginning in 1917, the talents of lyricist P. Wodehouse.
The musical revue format, with unrelated numbers strung together, was replaced by a more coherent story, more sophisticated songs, and characters that were more believable and realistic.
www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/songbook/multimedia/bio_kern2.html   (310 words)

  
 Playbill News: The Song Is Him: Jerome Kern Lives Again in Score of Broadway's Never Gonna Dance
A new generation of theatregoers will be introduced to the richness and variety of the songs of composer Jerome Kern this fall when Never Gonna Dance, a new musical inspired by the RKO picture "Swing Time" dances onto Broadway.
New York native Kern died in 1945 at the age of 59.
With Show Boat, Kern began a series of works for the stage which were more operatic and involved the close interweaving of music, song and speech, including Sweet Adeline (1929), The Cat and the Fiddle (1931), Music in the Air (1932) and Roberta (1933).
www.playbill.com /news/article/80198.html   (1099 words)

  
 Jerome Kern, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
Jerome Kern (1885-1945) is arguably the father modern American musical theater.
Born in New York of German heritage, he attended the New York College of Music and began to break into Broadway theater during the first decade of the century by having songs of his interpolated into shows.
Kern worked steadily -- he wrote or contributed to 37 shows during his career -- and was beginning work on Annie Get Your Gun when he died suddenly in 1945.
www.emusic.com /artist/10556/10556503.html   (215 words)

  
 GABBF - Chautauqua Tea celebrates Jerome Kern
This year's Chautauqua Tea will be a celebration of the life and music of composer Kern.
"Kern had once lived here in Danville and his music is so beautiful so we decided to do something with his music," Minor explains.
And here's another tidbit: Jerome Kern was born 115 years ago this year.
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 The History of Rock Music. Jerome Kern: biography, discography, reviews, links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Jerome Kern was hired by producer Charles Frohman to add a few songs to the score of a British comedy, The Girl From Utah (1914), that was about to open at the "Knickerbocker" theater.
Kern and lyricist Guy Bolton moved to Ray Comstock's "Princess" theater where they partnered with British librettist Pelham-Grenville Wodehouse.
Jerome Kern had re-invented the "musical" by integrating music and story in everyday settings (not the fantasy lands of the operettas), thus wedding Sullivan's aesthetics and Cohan's aesthetics.
www.scaruffi.com /vol1/kern.html   (89 words)

  
 Who's Who in Musicals: I To K
Kern was the first composer to approach the American musical comedy as an art form.
While not quite as revolutionary as some scholars suggest, the Princess Theatre shows made it clear that Kern was the pre-eminent theatrical composer of his time.
Kern continued to turn out musical comedy hits through the next decade, including the Marilyn Miller vehicles Sally (1920) –; with "Look for the Silver Lining" – and Sunny (1925).
www.musicals101.com /who5.htm   (4821 words)

  
 Jerome Kern Classics for Piano Solo American Music Teacher - FindArticles
Jerome Kern Classics for Piano Solo, arranged by Eugenie Rocherolle.
It also would be a perfect addition to a professional or amateur pianist's party and reception repertoire.
Most of the pieces are just under two minutes in length, so the entire collection could provide a wonderful 20-minute Kern set for your next gig.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2493/is_2_55/ai_n15696789   (226 words)

  
 Long Ago and Far Away: The Songs of Jerome Kern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Judy’s first Cabaret was inspired by a meeting with her mentor Andrea Marcovicci.
Discover the life and times of one of America’s finest song writers through a cabaret performance of Jerome Kern’s music from Broadway to Hollywood.
A pivotal author in the world of musical theater and writer of such standards as Ol’ Man River and Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Jerome Kern created the popular, melodic music of the 1920’s and 30’s.
www.judybutterfield.com /jerome.html   (93 words)

  
 Kern, Jerome articles on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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Kern, Jerome KERN, JEROME [Kern, Jerome], 1885-1945, American composer of musicals, b.
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 Internet Broadway Database: Jerome Kern Credits on Broadway
Internet Broadway Database: Jerome Kern Credits on Broadway
Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood [Original, Musical, Revue]
Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell Revue [Original, Special, Revue]
www.ibdb.com /person.asp?ID=6711   (132 words)

  
 JEROME KERN COLLECTION
Colorful cover is about the weight of posterboard.
Three pages of photos, excerpts and quotations taken from JEROME KERN: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC IN STORY, PICTURE AND SONG.
" There are interesting highlights, with accompanying photos, about the different stage and movie presentations of Kern's music throughout the book, but mostly this is a book of music scored for piano, voice and guitar.
www.popula.com /items_fp/item_description.cfm?item_fp_ID=288180   (133 words)

  
 Todd Peach's Jerome Kern Lyrics Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Carlene also contributed this eulogy by Oscar Hammerstein for Jerome Kern.
Many of these can be found on Jerome Kern Songbook, or The Complete Songbooks
The collection has grown, so you can snag all the files on this page (updated 11/25/00) in zip format.
www.thepeaches.com /music/composers/kern   (153 words)

  
 Amazon.com: George Feyer Plays Jerome Kern: Music: George Mell,Jerome Kern,Tommy Lucas,George Feyer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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The way he plays Kern reveal not only his great musicality, but also his great musical culture and taste.
He uses to improvise slightly including some familiar themes from his favorite Chopin and other composers in his accompaniment.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000023E1?v=glance   (929 words)

  
 Arts > Music > Composition > Composers > K > Kern, Jerome David   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Modern American composer Jerome Kern (1885-1945) brought intellectual and emotional depth to the musical theater.
Profile and audio broadcast focusing on his music before 1927, including performances of his works.
Chord progressions of Jerome Kern compositions in MIDI and printable GIF format available for study, practice and improvisation.
www.muestrario.com /directorio/dmoz/Top/Arts/Music/Composition/Composers/K/Kern,_Jerome_David   (297 words)

  
 Sheet Music Plus - Jerome Kern Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The definitive collection of the work of Jerome Kern, one of the most beloved composers of all-time.
The 46 songs in this book are the original sheet music arrangements including all verses.
Also included are a biography with photos of Jerome Kern, a brief narrative and photos for each song, plus Oscar Hammerstein's moving eulogy for his friend.
www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?item=2986067&id=79590   (251 words)

  
 Jerome Kern - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Jerome Kern - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
An Anglophile and friend of P.G. Wodehouse, Kern scored his first success with songs inserted into..
Till the Clouds Roll By: The Songs of Jerome Kern
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 Jerome Kern Tabs: 19 Tabs Total @ 911Tabs - Tabs Search Engine
Jerome Kern Tabs: 19 Tabs Total @ 911Tabs - Tabs Search Engine
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