- Title Pages
- Show Tunes
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use this Book
- Part I Composers of the Early Years
- Jerome Kern
- Irving Berlin
- George Gershwin
- Vincent Youmans
- Richard Rodgers
- Cole Porter
- Arthur Schwartz
- Harold Arlen
- Vernon Duke
- Burton Lane
- Kurt Weill
- Marc Blitzstein
- Harold Rome
- Part II New Composers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s
- PART III New Composers of the 1970s and Beyond
- PART IV Notable Scores by Other Composers
- Appendix 1 Chronological Listing of Productions
- Appendix 2 Collaborator Reference Listing
- Appendix 3 Bibliography
- Song Title Index
- Show Index
- People Index
Burton Lane
Burton Lane
Born: February 2, 1912, New York, New York
Died: January 5, 1997, New York, New York
- Chapter:
- (p.163) Burton Lane
- Source:
- Show Tunes
- Author(s):
Steven Suskin
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter looks at the work of Burton Lane. It starts with a long commentary of his career, and this is followed by information on productions, with data and song details. Lane began his musical career at the age of fifteen, leaving school to work as a pianist at Remick’s (where both Gershwin and Youmans started a decade earlier). His expert playing attracted attention and an offer came from the Shuberts to write a new revue. The show, which was to be the 1928 edition of the Greenwich Village Follies, was never produced. The teenager had to wait another two years before being heard on Broadway.
Keywords: Burton Lane, composers, Broadway musicals, musical theater, show tunes, Greenwich Village Follies
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- Title Pages
- Show Tunes
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use this Book
- Part I Composers of the Early Years
- Jerome Kern
- Irving Berlin
- George Gershwin
- Vincent Youmans
- Richard Rodgers
- Cole Porter
- Arthur Schwartz
- Harold Arlen
- Vernon Duke
- Burton Lane
- Kurt Weill
- Marc Blitzstein
- Harold Rome
- Part II New Composers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s
- PART III New Composers of the 1970s and Beyond
- PART IV Notable Scores by Other Composers
- Appendix 1 Chronological Listing of Productions
- Appendix 2 Collaborator Reference Listing
- Appendix 3 Bibliography
- Song Title Index
- Show Index
- People Index