Volume 46, Number 7 · April 22, 1999
Let's Face the Music
By Brad Leithauser
Annie Get Your Gun
music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by Herbert and Dorothy Fields, as revised by Peter Stone, directed by Graciela Daniele, starring Bernadette Peters. at the Marquis Theater, New York City
Irving Berlin: American Troubadour
by Edward Jablonski
Henry Holt, 384 pp., $35.00
Irving Berlin: A Life in Song
by Philip Furia
Schirmer, 321 pp., $25.00
Irving Berlin: A Daughter's Memoir
by Mary Ellin Barrett
Limelight, 320 pp., $14.95 (paper)
The kings of Tin Pan Alley—Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, and the rest—were a collegial but competitive bunch. Quick to praise each other's music and to pay one another generous formal tributes, they dined together, played cards together, occasionally vacationed together—but always kept a sharp eye on the sales figures, their own and their rivals'.
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