Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945

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Dates:
Birth 1885-01-27
Death 1945-11-11
Birth 1885
Active 1925
Active 1956
Birth 1885
Death 1945
Americans
English

Biographical notes:

Jerome Kern (1885-1945) was an American composer and lyricist whose work included numerous musical theater productions.

From the guide to the Jerome Kern sheet music, 1904-1946., (Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University)

Jerome Kern, composer. Dorothy Fields, Ira Gershwin, Otto Harbach, Johnny Mercer, Oscar Hammerstein II, and P.G. Wodehouse, lyricists. Jeffrey Hatcher, librettist. Howard Lindsay and Allan Scott, authors of source material.

From the description of Never gonna dance: typescript, 2001. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122485011

American composer.

From the description of The Big Show. / Words by Edgar Allan Woolf. / Music by Jerome Kern. [1918?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270566529

From the description of "Terzetto / (Finaletto Act I.)" : autograph manuscript, 1938 Dec. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270566532

From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : London, [n.d., 1905-1915?], to M[aude]. Hamill, [1905-1915?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270966465

From the description of "Hulda" Twostep. / Jerome D. Kern: autograph manuscript, [1910s?]. 1910-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270904472

Jerome Kern was an American composer.

From the description of ALS, [1935], March 27, Culver City, California, to Mrs. Joseph Cooper, Baltimore. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122597185

From the description of TLS, 1940, March 1, Beverly Hills, to Mrs. Joseph Cooper, Baltimore. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517414

From the description of ALS, [1934], May 5, Bronxville, N.Y., to Mrs. Joseph Cooper, Baltimore. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122615718

From the guide to the TLS, Beverly Hills, to Mrs. Joseph Cooper, Baltimore, 1940, March 1, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.)

From the guide to the ALS, Culver City, California, to Mrs. Joseph Cooper, Baltimore, 1935], March 27, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.)

From the guide to the ALS, Bronxville, N.Y., to Mrs. Joseph Cooper, Baltimore, 1934], May 5, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.)

Discusses economic arrangements for song title ideas. Opens "Dear Saint Cecelia" and is signed "Peter".

From the description of TLS, 1939, Feb. 27, Beverly Hills, to Mrs. Joseph Cooper, Baltimore. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 86164248

From the guide to the TLS, 1939, Feb. 27, Beverly Hills, to Mrs. Joseph Cooper, Baltimore, (The New York Public Library. Music Division.)

Jerome Kern was a composer for the American musical theater.

From the description of A girl and a drum: typescript, 1941. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122456180

Jerome David Kern, composer, well known for his musicals which were produced from 1906 to 1939. He was born Jan. 27, 1885, and died Nov. 11, 1945, in New York City.

From the description of Jerome Kern collection, 1905-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 32743152

Alfred Tennyson was a British poet and playwright.

From the guide to the Alfred Tennyson collection of papers, 1823-1907, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.)

Jerome Kern, composer. Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse, playwrights.

From the description of Sitting pretty: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652478

Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer, orchestrator and conductor.

From the guide to the Robert Russell Bennett papers, 1911-1981, (Music Library)

Biographical Note

1885, Jan. 27 Jerome David Kern is born in New York City to Henry Kern and Fanny Kakeles 1902 Kern studies harmony, theory and the piano at the New York College of Music 1903 Kern studies music theory and composition in Heidelberg, Germany 1904 Kern works as a song-plugger (notably for T. B. Harms) and as a rehearsal pianist in Broadway theatres. Kern begins interpolating songs into musicals 1905 The Earl and the Girl opens in New York; "How'd You Like to Spoon with Me?" is interpolated into the score 1906 Kern works in London, interpolating songs into musical shows 1910, Oct. 25 Kern marries Eva Leale in England 1912, Nov. 13 The Red Petticoat opens in New York 1913, Oct. 30 Oh, I Say! opens in New York 1914 The Girl from Utah opens in New York; "They Didn't Believe Me" is interpolated into the score 1915, Jan. 15 Ninety in the Shade opens in New York 1915, April 20 Nobody Home opens in New York 1915, Dec. 23 Very Good Eddie opens in New York 1917, Jan. 11 Have a Heart opens in New York 1917, Jan. 15 Love o' Mike opens in New York 1917, Feb. 20 Oh, Boy! opens in New York 1917, Aug. 28 Leave It to Jane opens in New York 1918, Feb. 1 Oh, Lady! Lady!! opens in New York 1918, March 11 Toot-Toot! opens in New York 1918, April 29 Head Over Heels opens in New York 1918, May 22 Rock-a-Bye Baby opens in New York 1918, Dec. 16 Kern's daughter Elizabeth (Betty) Jane Kern is born 1919, May 5 She's a Good Fellow opens in New York 1920, Feb. 2 Night Boat opens in New York 1920, Dec. 21 Sally opens in New York 1921, Nov. 1 Good Morning Dearie opens in New York 1922, Sept. 19 The Cabaret Girl opens in London 1922, Nov. 28 The Bunch and Judy opens in New York 1923, Sept. 5 The Beauty Prize opens in London 1923, Nov. 6 Stepping Stones opens in New York 1924, April 8 Sitting Pretty opens in New York 1924, Sept. 23 Dear Sir opens in New York 1925, Sept. 22 Sunny opens in New York 1925, Oct. 26 The City Chap opens in New York 1926, Oct. 12 Criss Cross opens in New York 1927, March 22 Lucky opens in New York 1927, April 27 Blue Eyes opens in London 1927, Dec. 27 Show Boat opens in New York 1929 Sally (film) opens 1929 Show Boat (film) opens 1929, Sept. 2 Sweet Adeline opens in New York 1930 Sunny (film) opens 1931 Men of the Sky (film) opens 1931, Oct. 15 The Cat and the Fiddle opens in New York 1932, Nov. 8 Music in the Air opens in New York 1933 The Cat and the Fiddle (film) opens 1933, Nov. 18 Roberta opens in New York 1934, April 9 Three Sisters opens in London 1934 Music in the Air (film) opens 1935 I Dream Too Much (film) opens 1935 Roberta (film) opens 1935 Sweet Adeline (film) opens 1936 Show Boat (2nd film) opens 1936 Swing Time (film) opens 1937 High, Wide and Handsome (film) opens 1937 When You're in Love (film) opens 1938 The Joy of Living (film) opens 1938 Gentlemen Unafraid opens in St. Louis 1939, Nov. 17 Very Warm for May opens in New York 1940 One Night in the Tropics (film) opens 1941 Lady Be Good (film) opens, "The Last Time I Saw Paris" is interpolated into the score 1941 Sunny (2nd film) opens 1942 You Were Never Lovelier (film) opens 1944 Can't Help Singing (film) opens 1944 Cover Girl (film) opens 1945, Nov. 11 Kern dies in New York 1946 Centennial Summer (film) opens

From the guide to the Jerome Kern Collection, 1905-1945, (Music Division Library of Congress)

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