an above-par collection of jazz standards whose highlights included a vibrant revamp of Fats Waller’s classic tune “Honeysuckle Rose” and a positively pulsating version of Jerome Kern and ...

LLOYD SCHWARTZ, BYLINE: "Ol' Man River" from the landmark 1929 musical "Show Boat" was the great bass-baritone Paul Robeson's most famous song, and the song that also made him famous. Jerome Kern ...

The announcement was made just before Sunday's game that Jerome had been named one of the three finalists for the Sixth Man of the Year award. "It's definitely special after last year, not being ...

“Composing is like fishing,” said the late Jerome Kern ... school of minnows along with Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Ol’ Man River. Contact us at letters@time.com ...

The musical is entirely the work of white people: Jerome Kern wrote the music and ... gets to rumble the anthemic “Ol’ Man River.” But even these classics apparently need reframing.

In adapting Edna Ferber’s novel about life on Mississippi River showboat Cotton Blossom, Kern wove a lush score ... “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man,” and “Ol’ Man River” the melancholy ...

First performed in 1927, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s ... And the musical’s biggest hit, “Ol’ Man River,” is reserved for Joe, the other principal Black character.

He earned ovations every night with the showstopper that became his signature song, “Ol’ Man River.” Moviegoers watching the film version responded in kind. Paul Robeson in Jerome Kern and ...

Jerome “Jerry” Kern Curington passed away on Thursday, September 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Jerome was born in South Pittsburgh, Tn. on Dec. 8, 1945, to the late Reverend George W.

Paul Robeson in ‘Show Boat’Courtesy Everett Collection “Show Boat” (1936): A musical adaptation of Edna Ferber’s novel by Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern, and directed by James Whale ...