Show business! Irving Berlin's Broadway.(Entertainment)(exhibition at The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Tex.)(Brief article)

From: USA Today (Magazine) | Date: August 1, 2006 | Copyright information

As one of the country's most beloved songwriters, Irving Berlin (1888-1989) left a treasured legacy to popular music. Composing over 1,500 songs, including the patriotic and theatrical anthems. "God Bless America" and "There's No Business Like Show Business," Berlin was an American institution without equal.

During his more than five decades in show business, Berlin wrote songs ranging from the soulful "Supper Time" (1933), intoned by Ethel Waters, and the rousing "Anyth...

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