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‘Among My Souvenirs’ [by David Lehman]
Jazz standards and Hollywood movies of the 40s, usually in black and white, often in a noir mode, go together like streetlamps and shadows, seam stockings and high heels, fedoras and belted trench-coats,…
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Annals of Arlen II [with Ruth Etting, in 1933]
The singer is Ruth Etting, the piano player is Harold Arlen, the year is 1933. Sing Hallelujah, c'mon get happy,
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Happy Birthday, Harold Arlen [by David Lehman]
June 1939. Standing left to right: Bert Lahr (the Cowardly Lion), Ray Bolger (the Scarecrow), MGM executive L.K. Sidney, Yip Harburg, composer/ conductor Meredith Willson (who wrote The Music Man), music publisher Harry Link.…
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On Being Set to Music [by Lloyd Schwartz]
My professional life for nearly four decades has consisted mainly of veering back and forth between poetry and music. In 1994, when I received a big award for my writing about classical music, I…
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V. To China: Books from the Sky [by Sarah Howe]
a small jar of night a thousand frontiers carrying him the sky of old age continues the firing in the kiln continues arranging this pot plant lamplight a glazed hand refines a blue…
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IV. To China: Possession Point [by Sarah Howe]
…The sour tear-like orange was there like a clove of…
