Irving Berlin’s music is so much a part of American history that it can be difficult to remember he was a real person. With songs like “White Christmas” and “Cheek to Cheek,” the composer, born on ...

Say it with music, With words and music. Please listen and we’ll begin Introducing Irving Berlin. That song-writing fellow Wants to say hello, So we will help him along To say it with a beautiful song ...

Irving Berlin was born Israel Isidor Baline on May 11, 1888 in Mogilev, Belarus, Russian Empire. Towering composer, songwriter, ("God Bless America", "Always", "Blue ...

“I wrote for love. I wrote for my country. I wrote for you.” So says “Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin,” which will certainly keep the Gil Cates Theater at the Geffen Playhouse in festive, nostalgic ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Eric Grode IRVING BERLIN New York Genius By James Kaplan Sometimes the hypersophisticated ...

From the award-winning A&E TV series. The legendary composer's songs sparkle in this illuminating portrait of his life. Join A&E's Biography for an in-depth rags-to-riches tale of a man who's words ...

I knew that perhaps the best known song about lynching, “Strange Fruit,” was written by a Jewish man, Abel Meeropol, in 1939. I didn’t know that six years earlier, Irving Berlin wrote an anti-lynching ...

The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many ...

The Melody Lingers On: The Songs of Irving Berlin, a new musical about the life and music of the great songwriter, will premiere at LA's El Portal Theatre on June 21st, for 20 performances to July ...

During a visit from Paris, Linda Emmet, Irving Berlin’s daughter, toured her old family home on Beekman Place, which now serves as the consulate for Luxembourg. If you care about American popular ...