| Description |
xiii, 404 pages : illustration ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
1.4 m/s |
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digital recording |
| Series |
Music in American life
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Music in American life.
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| Note |
Includes compact disc with 28 excerpts from radio shows and commercial recordings dating from 1923-1963. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-382) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue : the man who taught America how to sing -- The Victorian Warings -- Entrepreneur -- Penn State -- The brash kid from Tyrone -- Milk trains -- Stairway to fame -- Paris -- Fred loses his shirt -- Ballet, classics and the Roxyettes -- Radio days -- Henry Ford & Co. -- The legalities of interpretation -- The Waring blendor -- Burgeoning empire -- Hollywood -- "A cigarette, sweet music, and you" -- My debut -- For the sake of one singer -- Music workshops -- Television -- The Anti-Semitic rumor -- Life with Fred -- Golf -- "On the road again" -- Ike and the famous -- Crucible of professionals -- Stroke -- Timing -- Phaetons, Zephyrs and Model A Fords -- What glorious music -- Photo album. |
| Local Note |
Accompanying sound disc located in MEDIA CENTER ; request by call number. |
| Subject |
Waring, Fred, 1900-1984.
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Waring, Fred, 1900-1984. |
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Choral conductors -- United States -- Biography.
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Choral conductors. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Pennsylvanians (Musical group)
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Pennsylvanians (Musical group) |
| Genre/Form |
Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0252022955 alkaline paper |
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