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Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians

Title
Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians / Virginia Waring ; foreword by Robert Shaw.
Author
Waring, Virginia.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.

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Description
xiii, 404 p., [38] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm. +
Series Statement
Music in American life
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-378) and index.
Contents
Prologue : the man who taught America how to sing -- The Victorian Warings -- Entrepreneur -- Penn State -- The brash kid from Tyrone -- Milk trains -- Stairway to fame -- Paris -- Fred loses his shirt -- Ballet, classics and the Roxyettes -- Radio days -- Henry Ford & Co. -- The legalities of interpretation -- The Waring blendor -- Burgeoning empire -- Hollywood -- "A cigarette, sweet music, and you" -- My debut -- For the sake of one singer -- Music workshops -- Television -- The Anti-Semitic rumor -- Life with Fred -- Golf -- "On the road again" -- Ike and the famous -- Crucible of professionals -- Stroke -- Timing -- Phaetons, Zephyrs and Model A Fords -- What glorious music.
Call Number
JNE 96-76
ISBN
0252022955 (alk. paper)
LCCN
96025186 /MN
OCLC
34798220
Author
Waring, Virginia.
Title
Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians / Virginia Waring ; foreword by Robert Shaw.
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
Series
Music in American life
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-378) and index.
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JNE 96-76 CD in Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives
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