Posted AT 8:03 AM EDT on 10/02/05
Creating the great Canadian songbook
KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEE
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
Imagine a world where the songbooks of American composers, from Jerome Kern to Richard Rodgers to Stephen Sondheim, have never been recorded or captured on film and the only people who knew them well were the performers who originated the roles on-stage and a small community of cabaret connoisseurs. What a great loss that would be not just to theatre but to popular culture of the Americas.
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