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Feb. 14, 2012
Music
Having produced all of the Ella Fitzgerald song books (Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George & Ira Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Frank Loesser and others) and researching hundreds of songs, I have a pretty good idea of what the great songwriters created.
Feb. 10, 1985
Television
“In Performance at the White House” presents a stiff, once-over-lightly tribute to Jerome Kern tonight (Channels 28 and 15 at 8 p.m., Channels 50 and 24 at 10 p.m.).
Nov. 18, 1987
I’ve spent several recent evenings in the warm, ambrosial glow of the music of Jerome Kern, being awed all over again, as you have to be, at his miraculous gift of melody.
Feb. 2, 1985
Entertainment & Arts
The American musical comedy and the American musical theater are two separate entities--but Jerome Kern was a pioneer in both forms.
Nov. 21, 1985
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art kicks off a film series celebrating the work of composer Jerome Kern on Dec. 13 with a screening of the 1946 film “Till the Clouds Roll By” at 7:30 p.m. at the museum’s Bing Theater, 5905 Wilshire Blvd.
Nov. 29, 1996
Mike Phillips will direct Jerome Kern’s “Show Boat” for Opera Pacific at the Orange County Performing Arts Center July 13 through 22.
March 14, 1990
Composer Jerome Kern will be the posthumous recipient of the first “American Legend Award” at the fourth annual Singers’ Salute to the Songwriter on Tuesday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
April 20, 1989
Musical Theatre Guild revisits the 1933 show, whose Jerome Kern score still wears very well indeed.
Feb. 24, 2005
An inventory of music found stashed in a warehouse has revealed unpublished songs by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers and others, some handwritten by the composers, a musicologist said.
March 10, 1987