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<br> What a wonderful glance into the musical past! Benjamin Sears has assembled, organized and notated a fan's paradise of writing on and by Irving Berlin. And what a spectrum: from the master giving hints on how a song should be written, to a famous critic completely mis-judging Berlin's greatest theater score. This takes you back to another time and place, and brings Irving Berlin alive again. All in all, a great read. --Ted Chapin, President, Rodgers & Hammerstein<p><br> The Irving Berlin Reader is an engrossing documentary biography that will delight both the casual music lover and the hardcore Berlinophile. Item after item brings up fascinating details about not only Berlin's life and work but also the workings of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood at the height of the studio system--and Berlin was at the forefront of each of those institutions when it reached its artistic peak. To understand Irving Berlin is to understand almost everything important about a wide swath of America's popular music history. --Larry Hamberlin, author, Tin Pan Opera: Operatic Novelty Songs in the Ragtime Era<p><br> A valuable collection of commentary by and about a great American songwriter, compiled by a unique performer-scholar with a long and special affinity for his subject. --Jeffrey Magee, author of Irving Berlin's American Musical Theater<p><br>

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Benjamin Sears is a singer who, with pianist Bradford Conner, specializes in the ""Great American Songbook"" in particular the songs of Irving Berlin. Sears & Conner have made four CDs of Berlin's music together and lecture regularly on American songwriters and the great performers of their music.

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