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Hyland, William George was born on January 18, 1929 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
("Embraceable You." "Someone to Watch Over Me." "Alexander...)
"Embraceable You." "Someone to Watch Over Me." "Alexander's Ragtime Band." "My Funny Valentine." "White Christmas." Irving Berlin once wrote a song entitled "The Song is Ended, But the Melody Lingers On," and surely the title is a perfect epitaph for an incomparable era of American songwriting that endowed us with so many of our most beloved ballads and rousing showstoppers. The Song is Ended is the story of the Golden Age of American popular music, and a celebration of the enduring melodies and colorful life stories of five of this century's most engaging songwriters: Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers, with a fond bow in the direction of Victor Herbert and George M. Cohan. Author William G. Hyland provides an expert analysis of trends in popular songwriting during the first half of this century, escorting readers on a fascinating tour of the sights and sounds of fifty-odd years of American music, from the scratchy victrolas and Old World melodies of New York's teeming Lower East Side, to the hustle and bustle of Tin Pan Alley, to the hot rhythms and smoky clubs of the Jazz Age, to the sound stages of Hollywood and the glittering Broadway triumphs of "Showboat", "Anything Goes", "Porgy and Bess", "Pal Joey", and "Oklahoma!". Nostalgic lovers of good music will delight in the stories behind some of their favorite songs: Irving Berlin, for example, originally wrote his tender and romantic classic "I'll Be Loving You, Always," for a Marx Brothers revue (he wisely cut it), and he first composed "God Bless America" as an enlisted soldier in 1918, only to put it aside for almost twenty years when the pianist helping him rehearse for an army benefit complained "Geez, another patriotic song?" From Cole Porter's light-hearted and irrepressible "You're the Top" to Rodgers and Hart's wistful "Blue Moon" or the unforgettable "Summertime" from George Gershwin's masterful "Porgy and Bess," The Song is Ended captures the charm, freshness and vitality of a truly great era in American musical history. The melodies from this golden era truly linger on, just as Berlin predicted, and reverberate on every page of this superb volume.
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( Hyland reveals both the man and his creations, revealin...)
Hyland reveals both the man and his creations, revealing how Gershwin became the first composer to apply popular music to classical forms, how his work reflected the turmoil of America in the Jazz Age, and how, despite his fame, he never achieved the happiness and contentment a genius of his stature deserved. This is a fascinating new biography that no Gershwin fan―and no music fan―should be without. George Gershwin pioneered the crossover from Broadway musicals to concert audiences, culminating in what is arguably America's greatest opera, Porgy and Bess. In William G. Hyland's new biography, Gershwin's personality and music are reexamined. Hyland illustrates how the composer's craftsmanship was criticized and his music was relegated to the status of lowbrow for decades, until the relatively recent appreciation of his achievements. Yet for all of his artistic brilliance, Gershwin was vulnerable and discontented in his personal life. Hyland reveals both the man and his creations, revealing how Gershwin became the first composer to apply popular music to classical forms, how his work reflected the turmoil of America in the Jazz Age, and how, despite his fame, he never achieved the happiness and contentment a genius of his stature deserved. This is a fascinating new biography that no Gershwin fan―and no music fan―should be without.
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federal official international relations educator
Hyland, William George was born on January 18, 1929 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Bachelor, Washington University, St. Louis, 1946. Master of Arts, University Missouri, 1952.
With Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, 1954—1969, National Security Council, 1969—1977, deputy assistant to President for national security affairs, 1975—1977. Assistant secretary for intelligence & research United States Department State, 1973—1975. With Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1976.
Editor Foreign Affairs, New York City, 1983—1992. Professor Georgetown University, Washington, 1977-1980, distinguished professor international relations, 1992—2008. Member President Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 1989—1993.
Served in United States Army, 1950-1953, West Germany.
( Hyland reveals both the man and his creations, revealin...)
(Soviet Studies, American Studies, Political Studies, Fore...)
("Embraceable You." "Someone to Watch Over Me." "Alexander...)
Co-author: (with Richard Wallace Shryock) The Fall of Kruschev, 1968. Author: Mortal Rivals: Superpower Relations from Nixon to Reagan, 1987, The Cold War is Over, 1990, The Song Is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950, 1995, Richard Rodgers, 1998, Clinton's World, 1999, George Gershwin: A New Biography, 2003.
Staff, National Security Council. White House 1969-1973.
Married Evelyn Hyland. Children: William Junior, James.