When Jerome Kern announced he was going to compose a score for a show based on Marco Polo, an enthusiastic reporter asked, "Mr. Kern, your new musical is based on an Italian who crossed the Alps and then the Leviathan desert, got to Mongolia, then China and finally returned home to Italy. For heaven's sake, what type of music will you compose?" Kern answered without missing a beat, "Nice Jewish music." (Oh, how I hope that's true.) Last Monday I went to SubCulture, one of my favorite venues (it'...
When Jerome Kern announced he was going to compose a score for a show based on Marco Polo, an enthusiastic reporter asked, "Mr. Kern, your new musical is based on an Italian who crossed the Alps and then the Leviathan desert, got to Mongolia, then China and finally returned home to Italy. For heaven's sake, what type of music will you compose?" Kern answered without missing a beat, "Nice Jewish music." (Oh, how I hope that's true.) Last Monday I went to SubCulture, one of my favorite venues (it'...
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