SKU: A0.1340884

All Through the Day is a popular song with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and music by Jerome Kern from the 1946 film Centennial Summer, where it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. This version features a root-based chord blocking that John  and I have used in a number fo our arrangements. We added a few left-hand fills for interest. We hope you like what we've done with this great song from the past!

SKU: A0.845472

Music in the Air is a musical written by Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics and book) and Jerome Kern (music). It introduced songs such as The Song Is You, In Egern on the Tegern See and I've Told Ev'ry Little Star. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1932, and followed the team's success with the musical Show Boat from 1927.

Principal characters

• Cornelius, a bird-seller
• Frieda Hatzfeld, an operetta star
• Bruno Mahler, a composer
• Sieglinde Lessing, a young singer in love with Karl
• Dr Walther Lessing, Sieglinde's father, a composer and music teacher

Synopsis

The musical takes place in Bavaria during the 1930s but some contemporary productions have modified it to present day.

In the simple mountain town of Edendorff in Bavaria, music teacher Dr. Walther Lessing has a beautiful daughter Sieglinde. She is in love with Karl Reder, the local schoolmaster. Karl and Sieglinde travel to the sophisticated city of Munich and try to get a song written by Walther and Karl published. Karl becomes enamored of glamorous operetta diva Frieda Hatzfeld while Sieglinde is smitten by Bruno Mahler, an operetta librettist with whom Frieda lives. Mahler wants Sieglinde to appear in his new work Tingle-Tangle. Frieda moves out of Mahler's apartment and moves to an hotel where she can see Karl on a regular basis.

And love was born is a musical number sung by Cornelius in ACT 1.

Piano accompaniment, melody and lyrics are provided. Enjoy this beautiful arrangement of a Broadway classic.

SKU: A0.1404052

A Fine Romance is a popular song composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields, published in 1936. The song was written for the musical film, Swing Time, where it was co-introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Astaire recorded a solo version of the song on July 28, 1936 for Brunswick records (catalog 7716) and it topped the charts of the day for five weeks. Billie Holiday recorded the song for Vocalion Records on September 29, 1936 and this too reached the charts of the day as did versions by Henry King and Guy Lombardo. In the film Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), the song is performed by Virginia O'Brien. This version features a root-based chord blocking that John and I have used in a number of our arrangements. We added what we think are some pretty cool left-hand fills that we hope you will like! It's a pretty song and not too hard to play!

SKU: LV.8519

The Old Clarinet. Words by Harry B. Smith. Music by Jerome Kern. Published 1911 by T.B. Harms in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Ballroom dancing, Country life, Bands, Recreation. First line reads In gay resorts the lights are bright, crowded with dancers ev'ry night..

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

SKU: A0.794055

The Way You Look Tonight is a song from the film Swing Time that was performed by Fred Astaire and composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. This is a contemporary piano-only arrangement that makes use of a root-based chord-blocking technique that John and I have used in a number of our arrangements. We also added some interesting left-hand fills and counter-melodies that we think make for an interesting and fun to play arrangement - John and I hope you like what we've done!

SKU: A0.794048

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical Roberta. Most folks can more closely relate to the 1959 cover by The Platters which rose to #1 on the charts. This is a contemporary arrangement that John and I have created which utilizes a primarily root-based chord blocking technique found in nearly all of our arrangements. It's fun to play and not too hard, we hope you like it!

SKU: A0.1430090

The Song Is You is a jazz standard composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It was written for their musical Music in the Air (1932) and sung in that show by Tullio Carminati. In the subsequent 1934 film, the song was recorded and filmed but cut from the final release. An instrumental of the song can still be heard under the opening credits. This version features a root-based chord blocking that John and I have used in a number of our arrangements. We added what we think are some pretty cool left-hand fills that we hope you will like! It's a fun song and not too hard to play!