A hundred years, a thousand songs. (Irving Berlin celebrates his one-hundredth birthday)

From: U.S. News & World Report | Date: May 9, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

THE ARTS Jerome Kern perhaps said it best: Irving Berlin has no place in American music-he is American music

The setting: New York's Carnegie Hall In attendance: A Who's Who of American Music-Frank Sinatra andIsaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein and Willie Nelson, Ray Charles and Marilyn Horne, Tommy Tune and Tony Bennett The finale: A stage full of military brass strikes up triumphantly, and ranks upon ranks of bemedaled Boy and Girl Scouts march into the aisles to sing . . . "God Bless America."

Unflinchingly sentimental it may bebut then it's not every day that show ...

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