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JON BURLINGAME: MUSIC FOR PRIME TIME
A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
Music for Prime Time by musicologist and journalist, JON BURLINGAME is the first serious, journalistic history of music for American television. It is the product of 35 years of research and more than 450 interviews with composers, orchestrators, producers, editors and musicians active in the field. Based on, but vastly expanded and revised from, an earlier book by the same author, this wide-ranging narrative not only tells the backstory of every great TV theme but also examines the many neglected and frequently underrated orchestral and jazz compositions for television dating back to the late 1940s. His writing includes JEROME MOROSS and his influence on the Western film and TV genre as well as his impact on the great American songbook. A must read for everyone who enjoys TV history.
JEFF GOLDBLUM AND FREDA PAYNE COLLABORATE ON LAZY AFTERNOON RECORDING
Superstar of the Silver Screen JEFF GOLDBLUM and legendary vocalist FREDA PAYNE team up for their performance and recording of JEROME MOROSS’S and JOHN LATOUCHE’S hit song LAZY AFTERNOON. LAZY AFTERNOON was the breakaway favorite from the 1954 musical, THE GOLDEN APPLE.
JEFF GOLDBLUM, known as an actor for his many box office hits such as THE BIG CHILL, JURASSIC PARK, THE FLY and INDEPENDENCE DAY is also an accomplished jazz pianist performing regularly with his band The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra.
FREDA PAYNE, well-known since the 60s, achieved stardom with her own hit BAND OF GOLD, joins Goldblum as vocalist.
LAZY AFTERNOON, which was first sung by KAYE BALLARD, exactly 69 years ago, in her Broadway role of Helen, has over the years been covered by numerous artists, including TONY BENNETT, BARBRA STREISAND, WYNTON MARSALIS and SHIRLEY HORN.
The song is the latest to be taken from Goldblum’s upcoming new EP, PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS, which will feature a number of other collaborations.
Listen to JEFF GOLDBLUM, FREDA PAYNE and the THE MILDRED SNITZER ORCHESTRA on YouTube:
CHRISTINE EBERSOLE RELEASES NEW ALBUM AFTER THE BALL
From BroadwayWorld.com—
AFTER THE BALL, a new album from two-time Tony Award winner CHRISTINE EBERSOLE, will be released in physical and digital formats on Friday, September 30. Featuring American classics by composers and songwriters from Jerome Kern to JEROME MOROSS in original arrangements by Broadway veteran Lawrence Yurman, the new recording finds Ebersole at the start of a brave new chapter, reflecting on life, love and family now that the last of her three adopted children has flown the nest. AFTER THE BALL is produced by Ebersole herself, in collaboration with Yurman.
… JEROME MOROSS and JOHN LA TOUCHE’S “LAZY AFTERNOON” featured on the album, evoke carefree childhood days on her grandfather’s farm.
Pre-order the album at club44.lnk.to/AfterTheBall
WARNER ARCHIVES RELEASES NEW RACHEL, RACHEL BLU-RAY DVD
Rachel, Rachel Blu-ray Reviews
Excerpt from review Randy Miller III, August 30, 2022
Paul Newman’s emotionally barbed 1968 directorial debut Rachel, Rachel, starring his second wife Joanne Woodward, was inexplicably nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture, which it eventually lost to Carol Reed’s musical Oliver!. Not that it’s a bad movie, of course: it’s a fitfully effective coming-of-age tale about a lonely woman’s latent childhood trauma spilling over well into adulthood, laced with creative editing flourishes and internal monologues that really cram us into the main character’s head. But it doesn’t hold up to the competition during that strong decade of cinema, and one of the film’s other nominations (Best Actress) may be the only one it truly deserved.
Excerpt from McBastard’s Mausoleum
Rachel, Rachel (1968) arrives on Blu-ray in 1080p HD widescreen (1.85:1) with a new 2022 4K scan of the OCN and it looks simply gorgeous. We get lush grain with copious fine detail, warm well-saturated colors and organic textures throughout. Audio comes by way of uncompressed English DTS-HD MA 2.0 dual-mono with optional English subtitles. It’s clean, well-balanced and has some nice depth to it, including the subtle but effective score from JEROME MOROSS . Extras are pretty slim, we get a silent 2-min behind-the-scenes featurette and a 2-min trailer for the film. The single-disc release arrives in a standard keepcase with a one-sided sleeve of artwork featuring the original movie poster.
RUTH PAGE: THE WOMAN IN THE WORK
Congratulations to JOELLEN MEGLIN on her new book RUTH PAGE: THE WOMAN IN THE WORK published by Oxford University Press. RUTH PAGE, the Chicago ballerina emerges as a highly original choreographer who, in her art, sought the iconoclastic as she transgressed boundaries of genre, gender, race, class, and sexuality. Author Joellen A. Meglin shows how her works were often controversial and sometimes censored even as she succeeded in roles usually reserved for men in the ballet world: choreographer, artistic director, and impresario. Page collaborated with JEROME MOROSS on the music for their groundbreaking ballet FRANKIE AND JOHNNY.
From extensive dramaturgical analysis of her most famous ballets ― La Guiablesse, Frankie and Johnny, Billy Sunday, Revenge, The Merry Widow, Camille, Carmina Burana, and Alice ― to embodied re-imagining of an avant-garde solo performed in a “sack” designed by Isamu Noguchi, this biography follows the global reach of Ruth Page’s career spanning the greater part of the twentieth century. In the process of discovering the woman in the work, one encounters with an international cast of dancers (Anna Pavlova, Harald Kreutzberg, Frederic Franklin, Alicia Markova), composers (JEROME MOROSS, William Grant Still, Aaron Copland, Darius Milhaud), visual artists (Noguchi, Pavel Tchelitchew, Antoni Clavé), and companies (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Ballets des Champs-Elysées, London Festival Ballet). Disrupting notions that New York was the only cradle of the American ballet, and George Balanchine, its exponent to eclipse all others, Ruth Page explores the woman’s unique sensibility, corporeal praxis, and collaborative ethos to reveal her Chicago-centered network of creativity.
