Jerome Kern

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Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music., a collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II that advanced the form by weaving continuous music into a cohesive dramatic narrative, departing from the interpolated song styles of earlier revues.( His partnerships with lyricists including Hammerstein, P.G. Wodehouse, Ira Gershwin, and Dorothy Fields yielded timeless standards such as "Ol' Man River," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," and "The Way You Look Tonight," the last of which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936.( Kern's melodic sophistication and harmonic innovations helped elevate American musical theatre from vaudeville traditions toward the integrated book musicals that defined later Broadway.(

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Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "The Song Is You", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Long Ago (and Far Away)". He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P.

G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and Yip Harburg. A native New Yorker, Kern created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted for more than four decades.