- 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
Arthur Schwartz
Arthur Schwartz
Born: November 25, 1900, Brooklyn, New York
Died: September 3, 1984, Kintnersville, Pennsylvania
- Chapter:
- (p.129) Arthur Schwartz
- Source:
- Show Tunes
- Author(s):
Steven Suskin
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter discusses the work of Arthur Schwartz. Schwartz displayed an early interest in music—despite objections from his father, a lawyer—and by the age of fourteen was playing piano accompaniment in Brooklyn movie houses. After graduating from NYU, he went on to Columbia Law School while supporting himself by teaching high school English. Schwartz continued his music hobby, though, with his first published song coming in 1923, the rhythmic Baltimore Md., That’s the Only Doctor for Me [lyrics by Eli Dawson].
Keywords: Arthur Schwartz, NYU, Broadway musicals, teaching, show tunes
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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