Theater Review: The Philharmonic's Uneven Yet Dazzling Show Boat
The story goes that the wife of the composer Jerome Kern and the wife of the librettist Oscar Hammerstein II were seated next to each other at a dinner party. An admirer of Show Boat, the two men's groundbreaking 1927 musical, approached Mrs. Kern and said, "Your husband wrote 'Ol' ... More »