Profile: Holiday song "White Christmas"

From: NPR All Things Considered | Date: December 25, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

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Profile: Holiday song "White Christmas"

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From NPR News, it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.

Every week this year, we've presented a selection from the NPR 100, our list of the 100 most significant American musical works of the 20th century. Today for our final installment, we have a holiday classic, "White Christmas." In the 101 years that Irving Berlin lived, he wrote close to 1,000 songs, and many became standards: "God Bless America," ...

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Still dreaming; It's 60 years since Irving Berlin wrote the evergreen classic White Christmas, but with American troops in Afghanistan it remains as pertinent today as when he first wrote it
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'Christmas' is just like shows we used to know; REVIEW: "Irving Berlin's White Christmas," now at the Ordway, is full of the 1950s, and that's a good thing. It's a dazzling, sweet work that deserves plenty of praise.(NEWS)
; ...song-and-dance number at the Ordway called Irving Berlin's White Christmas. It's been ballyhooed across all media...Christmas soars. Rohan Preston - 612-673-4390 IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS What: Adapted from the 1954 film. Directed...
`White Christmas' has had amazing staying power.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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A sure sign that Christmas is coming.(Irving Berlin, professional songwriter )
; ...recorded versions of White Christmas have followed. Among...own minds. In 1939, Irving Berlin completed a sheaf...I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas. Songs have seldom...assigned the royalties. White Christmas outsells even it...
Weekend: Books: Still dreaming of a white Christmas; White Christmas - The Story of a Song. By Jody Rosen (Fourth Estate, pounds 12.99).(Features)
; ...miracle that Irving Berlin ever wrote White Christmas at all. He...Yet in 1940 Irving Berlin wrote White Christmas, a seasonal...1954 film White Christmas; right, master...songwriter Irving Berlin in the 1930s...
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; ...that happens, Irving Berlin's White Christmas establishes itself...used to know. White Christmas is a fine family...Allen Studios) 'IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS' 'Irving Berlin's White Christmas' THREE STARS...
Nostalgia with all the trimmings; I'm dreaming of a white Christmas just like the ones I used to know ... in Beverly Hills, L.A.?(FEATURES)(BOOKS)
; ...outlasted them all: White Christmas, with total sales of...phenomenal cultural history White Christmas, our focus on Crosby...the 1942 release of White Christmas helped catalyze this...notably, the esteemed Irving Berlin. On Jan. 8, 1940, Berlin...be reduced to 32) of ...
'White Christmas' won over the world
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; Irving Berlin's White Christmas Based on the Paramount...Holidays" at the top of "Irving Berlin's White Christmas," Brian D'Arcy James and...Bobbie's brilliant direction. "Irving Berlin's White Christmas," which returned last night...