Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist's Letters
by Mchugh, Dominic (Editor)
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- Hardcover
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- 0199949271
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- 9780199949274
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About This Item
NY: Oxford University Press, 2014. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Oxford University Press, 2014, second printing. 8vo., xiii+314pp., illustrated. In this rich collection of correspondence, most of it published for the first time, author Dominic McHugh sheds new light on Lerner's working relationships with these legendary figures. McHugh's extensive commentary reveals Lerner's turbulent partnerships with Loewe and Lane, his affection for Harrison, and his reverence for Burton. Particular emphasis is placed on Lerner's aborted projects with composers like Richard Rodgers and Arthur Schwartz. Especially valuable is the correspondence from his final years, in which he worked on a movie version of The Merry Widow, a BBC TV series about musicals, and a musical version of My Man Godfrey, none of which came to fruition. The collection ends with a poignant final exchange between Lerner and Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he was to have written The Phantom of the Opera. Overall, this important and lively book reveals the highs and lows of the career of one of America's wittiest and most romantic lyricists. As new, in as new dust jacket. . Hard. As New/As New. 8vo.
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- The Wild Muse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008101
- Title
- Alan Jay Lerner: A Lyricist's Letters
- Author
- Mchugh, Dominic (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0199949271
- ISBN 13
- 9780199949274
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2014
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- Music;
- Size
- 8vo
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