The Irving Berlin Reader

Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part One: Musical Demon - Early Years
• 1.1 A Trip to Chinatown with Irving Berlin, Ward Morehouse
• 1.2 Alexander & Irving, Edward Jablonski
• 1.3 Excerpt from Alexander and His Band, Charles Hamm
• 1.4 The Boy Who Revived Ragtime, Rennard Wolf
• 1.5 Review of Watch Your Step by Madam Critic
• 1.6 Excerpt from First Nights and First Editions, Harry B. Smith
• 1.7 Watch Your Step: Irving Berlin's 1914 Musical, Margaret Knapp
• 1.8 Ghost of Verdi Interviewed: Tells How He Suffers Nightly
• 1.9 Fond Memory: Those Old Music Box Revues, Robert Baral
• 1.10 Letter about The Music Box, Robert Benchley
• 1.11 Yes, We Have No Bananas in Grand Opera Setting, S.I. deKrafft
• Part Two: Blue Skies - Middle Years
• 2.1 Memoir, George S. Kaufman
• 2.2 Letter from Jerome Kern to Alexander Woollcott from The Story of Irving Berlin
• 2.3 Excerpt from Musical Stages, Richard Rodgers
• 2.4 Excerpt from chapter The March of Time in A Song in the Dark, Richard Barrios
• 2.5 Unity in Word and Tone in Two Ballads by Irving Berlin, Howard Pollack
• 2.6 The Origins of Easter Parade, Benjamin Sears
• 2.7 Gawd Bless A-M-E-R-I-K-A, Cleve Sallendar
• 2.8 No Right to a Personal Interest in 'God Bless America', Berlin is Told, Variety
• 2.9 Excerpt from Stokowski, Here for Concert Tonight, Praises Martial, Folk Songs
• Likes to Play for Soldiers, Nashville Tennessean
• 2.10 Irving Berlin Orders Song Word Change, Richmond Afro American
• 2.11 Excerpt from Musical Stages: An Autobiography, Richard Rodgers
• 2.12 Excerpt from Who Could Ask for Anything More, Ethel Merman, as told to Pete Martin
• 2.13 Annie Get Your Gun, Brooks Atkinson
• 2.14 Verse to Halloween, Harold Arlen & Ralph Blane
• 2.15 Excerpt from The Hollywood Musical, John Russell Taylor and Arthur Jackson
• 2.16 Excerpt from Steps in Time, Fred Astaire
• Part Three: The Melody Lingers On - Later Years
• 3.1 A Ninetieth-birthday Salute to the Master of American Song, Joshua Logan
• 3.2 First Encounters: Irving Berlin and George Gershwin, Nancy Caldwell Sorel
• 3.3 Excerpts from Top Hat and Tales, Mark Steyn
• 3.4 Berlin at 100: Life On a High Note, Marilyn Berger
• 3.5 Bit of Blues for Ballads of Berlin, Murray Kempton
• 3.6 Genius Without Tears, Josh Rubins
• 3.7 Irving Berlin (1888-1989), Arthur Maisel
• 3.8 Cartoon: September 22, 1989, Edward Sorel
• Epilogue: Berlin on Songwriting
• 4.1 How to Write Ragtime Songs, Irving Berlin
• 4.2 Song and Sorrow Are Playmates, Irving Berlin
• 4.3 Irving Berlin Gives Nine Rules for Writing Popular Songs, Frank Ward O'Malley
• 4.4 Excerpt from Words and Music From Irving Berlin, Isaac Goldberg
• 4.5 How to Write a Song Hit, Irving Berlin
• Biographical Highlights
• Suggested Reading
• Index