Author: WIlfrid Sheed

List Price:$29.95

Pages: 368

Publisher: Random House

ISBN：1400061059      
  
 
    

Sheed, who won a 1987 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes (for Sinatra's The Voice), spoke over the decades with many of these Great American Songbook creators and their families. In this book, he employs an informal, anecdotal approach as he looks back at the top tunesmiths of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and Hollywood. Composer Arthur Schwartz recalled that he dashed off the tune in 20 minutes after lyricist Howard Dietz casually remarked, What is life but dancing in the dark?

本書(shū)中，威福瑞·席德描述了一些叮砰巷、百老匯及好萊塢頂尖作曲家的趣聞?shì)W事。在20年代的美國(guó)，由于收音機(jī)的出現(xiàn)帶來(lái)了美國(guó)音樂(lè)史上的一次變革，出現(xiàn)了在黑暗中向收聽(tīng)者傾訴的一種親密演唱風(fēng)格，也相繼帶來(lái)了美國(guó)音樂(lè)發(fā)展史上的黃金時(shí)代。威福瑞的散文是一種閱讀的享受，他把瘋狂、狂亂和抒情的節(jié)奏結(jié)合的剛剛好，沒(méi)有一點(diǎn)刻板的學(xué)究氣息，如同在音樂(lè)的優(yōu)美旋律中徜徉，給人以無(wú)限遐想。

About Author  

Wilfrid Sheed was born in London in 1930, and now lives in Sag Harbor, New York. His many books include In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery and the novel Max Jamison, both of which are available in Common reader editions.

威福瑞·席德，1930年生于倫敦，著有多部小說(shuō)及散文，作品發(fā)表在美國(guó)各大報(bào)刊上，并出版了自傳體小說(shuō)《逃離黑夜》。


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