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A native New Yorker, Kern created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted for more than four decades. His musical innovations, such as 4/4 dance rhythms and the employment of syncopation and jazz progressions, built on, rather than rejected, earlier musical theatre tradition.
Jerome Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of popular music and, according to a joint resolution passed by Congress, "the father of American musical theater".
Jerome Kern was an American songwriter. He was born in New York City on January 27, 1885 and died in New York City on November 11, 1945 at the age of 60. [1]
Wrote over 700 songs for dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films. Jerome Kern was born in New York City on January 27, 1885. Growing up in the middle-class atmosphere of East 56th Street, he attended public schools.
Jerome Kern (born Jan. 27, 1885, New York City—died Nov. 11, 1945, New York City) was one of the major U.S. composers of musical comedy, whose Show Boat (with libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II) inaugurated the serious musical play in U.S. theatre.
May 18, 2018 · Jerome David Kern. Jerome David Kern (1885-1945), American composer, wrote the scores for several of the musical theater's greatest successes. Jerome Kern was born in New York City on Jan. 27, 1885. His first music teacher was his pianist-mother. He later studied at the New York College of Music as well as in Europe.
Meet Jerome Kern. Jerome Kern (1885-1945) wrote “They Didn’t Believe Me” for a Broadway show called The Girl from Utah in 1914. The song consisted of sixteen bars, half the length of the standards to come. But Kern’s melody and its harmonic and rhythmical possibilities made it the prototype of the modern ballad.
Jerome David Kern was born in 1885. He began his stage career grafting American songs (for which he wrote the music) into imported European operettas. His breakthrough came with the song "They Didn't Believe Me", written (with lyrics by Edward Laska) for a show called "The Girl from Utah".
Today we tell about and play music by songwriter Jerome Kern. He was the man who helped invent the modern musical play. Jerome Kern is often called the father of American musical theater. Kern is remembered for the hundreds of songs he wrote for musical plays and movies.
When Jerome Kern died in 1945, America lost one of its greatest and most beloved composers.
