Author: WIlfrid Sheed

List Price:$29.95

Pages: 368

Publisher: Random House

ISBN：1400061059      
  
 
    

Sheed, who won a 1987 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes (for Sinatra's The Voice), spoke over the decades with many of these Great American Songbook creators and their families. In this book, he employs an informal, anecdotal approach as he looks back at the top tunesmiths of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and Hollywood. Composer Arthur Schwartz recalled that he dashed off the tune in 20 minutes after lyricist Howard Dietz casually remarked, What is life but dancing in the dark?

本书中，威福瑞·席德描述了一些叮砰巷、百老汇及好莱坞顶尖作曲家的趣闻轶事。在20年代的美国，由于收音机的出现带来了美国音乐史上的一次变革，出现了在黑暗中向收听者倾诉的一种亲密演唱风格，也相继带来了美国音乐发展史上的黄金时代。威福瑞的散文是一种阅读的享受，他把疯狂、狂乱和抒情的节奏结合的刚刚好，没有一点刻板的学究气息，如同在音乐的优美旋律中徜徉，给人以无限遐想。

About Author  

Wilfrid Sheed was born in London in 1930, and now lives in Sag Harbor, New York. His many books include In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery and the novel Max Jamison, both of which are available in Common reader editions.

威福瑞·席德，1930年生于伦敦，著有多部小说及散文，作品发表在美国各大报刊上，并出版了自传体小说《逃离黑夜》。


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