The Library of Congress has acquired rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg, best known for their collaboration on the score of the 1939 film The ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of American song master Harold Arlen. We note the occasion as Rob Kapilow takes us through one of Arlen's best known songs, "Over the Rainbow." Then we ...

The Library of Congress has acquired rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg, best known for their collaboration on the score of the iconic film “The ...

The treasures include 35 musical manuscripts from composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E. Y. “Yip” Harburg’s creative output, including the first handwritten drafts of music and lyrics from some of the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Harold Arlen composed over 500 songs, including many that you may know, "Stormy Weather", "That Old Black Magic", and his most recognizable, "Somewhere Over The Rainbow.". It's an ...

Broadway and television’s Faith Prince and Tom Wopat are joined by jazz vocalists Barbara Morrison and Loston Harris for the 100th anniversary celebration of composer Harold Arlen’s birth in Over The ...

Born in Buffalo in 1905, Harold Arlen never grows old. Celebrate his songs at 2 p.m. Nov. 5, when the Theatre of Youth (203 Allen St. in the historic Allendale Theater), plays host to an Arlen tribute ...

And the Oscar for Best Song went to… “Al otro lado del Rio” from “The Motorcycle Diaries”! Six Hispanics in the Kodak Theatre audience whooped and hollered, jubilant at the win of this ballad by the ...

"Harold Arlen: The Wonderful Wizard of Song" Wolf Trap NO PERFORMER DISSECTS a classic pop song as entertainingly as pianist John Eaton or celebrates the great composers of the pre-rock era with as ...

Next February marks Harold Arlen's 100th birthday. There will be national and international celebrations marking the centennial of the famed Buffalo-born composer who died in 1986. Arlen received an ...

There has always been cultural melding between white and Black America. By John McWhorter On ‘Blues opera’ and Black English. By John McWhorter Rob Kapilow’s “Listening for America” explains how to ...