Jerome Kern's Jewel Box
Jerome Kern’s Jewel Box shows how the integration of spoken and sung performances in Kern''s early musicals reveals new connections between musical theater scores and “straight” (spoken) theater. Kern’s scores are foundational to the American musical, and subsequent dramatic music would be unrecognizable without Kern’s innovations. This book argues that Kern’s scores for a group of musicals staged...
Jerome Kern’s Jewel Box shows how the integration of spoken and sung performances in Kern''s early musicals reveals new connections between musical theater scores and “straight” (spoken) theater. Kern’s scores are foundational to the American musical, and subsequent dramatic music would be unrecognizable without Kern’s innovations. This book argues that Kern’s scores for a group of musicals staged...
