Radio My Way

Featuring Celebrity Profiles from Jazz, Opera, the American Songbook and More (Hardcover)

Ron Della Chiesa (Autor)

Media-Kombination

304 Seiten

2012
Pearson
9780205252701 (ISBN)

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With a voice as smooth as a Charlie Parker alto saxophone solo, Boston broadcasting icon Ron Della Chiesa has brought music and musical legends alive for over thirty-five years. These are the inside stories of Della Chiesa’s career in radio. Discover Boston's vibrant music scene as only Ron can tell it: through his interviews with everyone from opera greats Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo, to jazz artists Dizzy Gillespie and Dave McKenna, beloved song legends Rosemary Clooney and Bobby Short, composers David Raksin and Andre Previn, the brilliant raconteur Jean Shepherd, to his close friend, musical legend Tony Bennett.

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Radio Kid

Chapter Two: Finding My Voice

Chapter Three: Steppin’ Out

Chapter Four: Nice Work If You Can Get It

Chapter Five: A World of Joyce

Chapter Six: I Miss You in the Afternoon

Chapter Seven: Fly Me to the Moon

Profiles

I. The World of Opera

1. Luciano Pavarotti, King of the High C’s

2. The Incomparable: Placido Domingo 3. Carlo Bergonzi: Viva Verdi!

4. James McCracken: Esultate!

5. Ben Heppner: Hip Heldentenor 6. Marcello Giordani: La Dolce Vita

7. Norman Kelley: “Knew Them All!”

8. Richard Cassilly and Patricia Craig: The Opera Couple

9. Jose Van Dam, the Singing Actor

10. Robert Merrill, Star Spangled Baritone 11. Jerome Hines, Devils and Demons

12. Eleanor Steber: West Virginia Diva

13. Eileen Farrell, The Feisty Soprano

14. Aprile Millo: After the Golden Age

II. All That Jazz

1. The Diz: Dizzy Gillespie

2. Benny Carter: Gentleman Ben

3. Jacquet’s Got It: Illinois Jacquet

4. Stan Getz: Hot, Cool, and Swinging

5. Super Drummer: Buddy Rich

6. The Irascible Joe Venuti

7. A Lifetime of Swing: Lionel Hampton 8. Boston’s Own: Ruby Braff

9. George Shearing: It’s Shearing You’re Hearing!

10. Three Handed Swing: Dave McKenna 11. Dick “Spider” Johnson

12. Joe Williams: Boss of the Blues

III. The Great American Songbook

1.Tony Bennett: The John Singer Sargent of Singers

2. Bobby Short: The Embodiment of Elegance

3. Frank Sinatra, Jr.: His Own Way

4. John Pizzarelli: Style’s Back in Style

5. Mel Torme: “Don’t Call Me the Velvet Fog!” 6. Nancy Wilson: The Thrush of Columbus:

7. Rosemary Clooney: Blue Rose

8. Sammy Cahn: A Song’s Best Friend

IV. Conductors and Composers

1. Arturo Toscanini, The Maestro

2. Gunther Schuller: “Where the Word Ends” 3. Harry Ellis Dickson: Wild About Harry! 4. David Raksin: Grandfather of Film Music

5. Andre Previn: Musical Wunderkind

V. Comics, Actors, and Everybody Else

1.Jean Shepherd, A Voice in the Night

2.Mort Sahl: If You’re For It, I’m Against It

3.The Importance of Being Ernest: Ernest Borgnine

4. Chuck Jones: What’s Up, Doc?

5. Robert B. Parker: Dean of American Crime Fiction

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.2.2012
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-13	9780205252701 / 9780205252701
Zustand	Neuware