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Yip Harburg's lyrics of social comment

Title: Yip Harburg's lyrics of social comment [videorecording] / The Yip Harburg Foundation and the Donnell Media Center of the New York Public Library present ; lyrics and other writings by E. Y. Harburg ; original idea by Ernie Harburg ; conceived and narrated by Deena Rosenberg ; directed by Michael Montel ; [video director, Penny Ward].
Publication: New York, 2004.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	VHS	Restricted use	NCOV 3284	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Description

1 videocassette (VHS) (61 min.) : sd., col. SP; 1/2 in.

Summary

Program of songs and other writings by E. Y. "Yip" Harburg (1898-1981). The songs were written in collaboration with various composers for stage shows and movies between the 1930s and 1970s. Featured composers include Earl Robinson, Burton Lane, Harold Arlen, and Jay Gorney.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Musicals.

Note

This program was the first in a series of annual concerts organized to celebrate the Yip Harburg Political Documentary Collection.
Includes archival footage of a performance of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" by Groucho Marx.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Musical director, David Brunetti.

Performer (note)

Performers: T. Oliver Reid, Sherry Boone, Diane Sutherland, Ben Harburg, and Stephen Bogardus.

Event (note)

Videotaped at the Donnell Media Center Auditorium, New York, N.Y., April 8, 2004.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Contents

Songs performed: Crazy old world -- The same boat, brother -- Napoleon -- The eagle and me -- Free and equal blues -- When the idle poor become the idle rich -- Panache -- The money cat -- Brother, can you spare a dime? -- Leave the atom alone -- Drivin' and dreamin' -- Lydia the tattooed lady -- Hooray for the Yankee dollar -- One sweet morning -- Ding dong! The witch is dead -- That great come-and-get-it day -- In times like these -- Over the rainbow.

Call Number

NCOV 3284

OCLC

156851857

Title

Yip Harburg's lyrics of social comment [videorecording] / The Yip Harburg Foundation and the Donnell Media Center of the New York Public Library present ; lyrics and other writings by E. Y. Harburg ; original idea by Ernie Harburg ; conceived and narrated by Deena Rosenberg ; directed by Michael Montel ; [video director, Penny Ward].

Imprint

New York, 2004.

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Musical director, David Brunetti.

Performer

Performers: T. Oliver Reid, Sherry Boone, Diane Sutherland, Ben Harburg, and Stephen Bogardus.

Event

Videotaped at the Donnell Media Center Auditorium, New York, N.Y., April 8, 2004.

Local Note

Gift of the Yip Harburg Foundation.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

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Added Author

Harburg, Ernest, conceptor.

Rosenberg, Deena, 1951- conceptor.

Rosenberg, Deena, 1951- narrator.

Montel, Michael, director.

Brunetti, David, musical director.

Brunetti, David, instrumentalist.

Reid, T. Oliver, performer.

Boone, Sherry, performer.

Sutherland, Diane, performer.

Harburg, Ben, performer.

Bogardus, Stephen, performer.

Harburg, E. Y. (Edgar Yipsel), 1896-1981, lyricist.

Robinson, Earl, 1910-1991, composer.

Lane, Burton, 1912-1997, composer.

Arlen, Harold, 1905-1986, composer.

Gorney, Jay, 1896-1990, composer.

Ward, Penny, videographer.

Yip Harburg Foundation.

Donnell Library Center.

Yip Harburg Foundation, donor.

Research Call Number

NCOV 3284

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