Re: Broadway shows -- Off Topic

[Marvin Margoshes <physchem...>]

Part II of the 3-part series "Sultans of Song" in Reform Judaism magazine is 
now out.  Read it online at http://www.uahc.org/rjmag/03spring/sultan.shtml.

Part II concentrates on Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Richard Rodgers, 
but mentiosns some others as well.

Rodgers was not Bar Mitzvah, but was not divorced from his backround.  "Kern 
rarely spoke about the influence of his Jewish heritage on his music, though he 
once commented, half in jest, that everything he wrote was Jewish music for the 
simple reason that he was a Jew. When Hammerstein asked Kern what kind of music 
he would write for a show based on Donn Byrne's biography of Marco Polo--"a 
story," Hammerstein said, "laid in China about an Italian and told by an 
Irishman"--Kern replied, "Don't worry, it'll be good Jewish music.""