Theater scribe Scott Siegel returned to Town Hall on Friday to host the second annual Broadway Cabaret Festival. Kickoff event saluted composer Jerome Kern, the father of musical theater and creator ...

In 1936 Jerome Kern (1885-1945) and Dorothy Fields (1904-1974) collaborated to create several songs for the movie musical, Swing Time, starring Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. "Pick Yourself Up" ...

The second hour of "jazz Interpretations of the music of Jerome Kern" featured tunes from the 1930s: "Yesterdays," "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," "I Won't Dance," "A Fine Romance," "The Way You Look ...

Jerome “Jerry” Kern, the former CEO of the Colorado Symphony who helped turn the organization around from financial troubles, has died. He was 87. Kern was a prominent telecommunications lawyer and ...

“Composing is like fishing,” said the late Jerome Kern. “You get a nibble, but you don’t know whether it’s a minnow or a marlin until you reel it in.” Writing quickly and easily. Kern landed enough ...

Three composers went to work on a job usually reserved for painters. Aaron Copland dug into a Modern Library version of Abraham Lincoln’s life and letters, and tried to write down his impressions in ...