Remembering Jule Styne on his birthday π
π· Murray Garrett, 1948
With his collaborator, Sammy Cahn.
"Frank's figured it out. He sings the words. The other fellers sing the notes. But we've already worked all that out: The words fit the notes. So sing the words."
Jule Styne talking with Leonard Bernstein at a party, in a great photo by Gordon Parks, 1958
Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim, Gypsy Rose Lee (who said she felt "like a ghost at a banquet"), Arthur Laurents & Jule Styne during rehearsals for Gypsy.
π· Friedman-Abeles, 1959 @NYPL digital collection
Coffee with Jule Styne βοΈ
π· Santi Visalli, 1974
Adolph Green, Betty Comden, Judy Holliday & Jule Styne in rehearsal for Bells Are Ringing, 1956 @nypl digital collection
Dith Pran for the @NYTimes
Jule Styne on the set of Bar Mitzvah Boy, at the 92nd Street Y
Jack Klugman, Jule Styne, Ethel Merman & Stephen Sondheim at the Columbia recording session for the cast album Gypsy, 1959 @NYPL digital collection
"I Fall in Love Too Easily" is one of my favourite Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn songs. They wrote it for Frank Sinatra to sing in Anchors Aweigh!, 1945. Nominated for an Oscar, it lost out to Rodgers & Hammerstein's "It Might as Well be Spring"
Judy Holliday & Jule Styne in rehearsal for Bells Are Ringing
π· Friedman-Abeles, 1956 @NYPL digital collection
Styne wrote the music, & Betty Comden & Adolph Green wrote the book & lyrics.
Jule Styne & Stephen Sondheim by Friedman-Abeles @NYPL, 1959
Sondheim was hired to write both music & lyrics for Gypsy, but:
"Ethel Merman put her foot down & insisted on Styne. She must have thought, βLook what he did for Carol Channing & Judy Holliday'."
- Charles Troy
Jule Styne & Jerome Robbins at a rehearsal of the Broadway musical "Jerome Robbins' Broadway."
π· Martha Swope, 1989 @NYPL digital collection
Jule Styne, Adolph Green & Betty Comden attend the premiere of "The Night of the Generals" on February 1, 1967
π· Ron Galella
"Stynes (or Styne-ese), n. language circa middle 20th century, spoken and understood by only one man."
In her September 21, 1994 obituary for Jule Styne, Eleanor Blau quotes Styne's biographer, Theodore Taylor, from "Jule: The Story of Composer Jule Styne".
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Happy birthday to Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk π
π· Ara GΓΌler
"His books are multi-layered, allegorical, sometimes fanciful, Proustian in their attention to detail and Borgesian in their dazzling complexity."
- Sarah Lyall
Orhan Pamuk by Sophie Bassouls, 1990
"Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow."
It's so great that other photographers have continued Philippe Halsman's #jump! tradition. Here's Orhan Pamuk by Alex Majoli.
This was taken at Cannes in 2007, when Pamuk was a member of the Festival Jury.
Celebrate the Richard Avedon Centennial ππ―
π· Irving Penn, Vogue, August 23, 1993
"He was small, dark & electric with his own sort of vitality. Crackling. Sparks seem to fly out of him. He flashes his fingers like tiny rapid moths."
- Ginette Spanier
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Carson McCullers & Tennessee Williams, April 25, 1950 #Avedon100
On Richard Avedon's Centennial, my favourite portraits
Buster Keaton, 1952 #Avedon100
I'm listening to Concerto Italiano play Bach's Brandenburg Concertos, in their 2005 recording under Rinaldo Alessandrini.
I've always loved the cover photo; it's by Julia Fullerton-Batten. I'll start a thread of some of my favourites of her photos here. π§΅
Julia Fullerton-Batten
The Lady of Shalott, 2018
... which is, of course, a reinterpretation of John Waterhouse's 1888 painting of Lord Tennyson's poem.
Happy birthday Sofia Coppola π
π· Kate Barry
"Coppola is a true auteur β a filmmaker with a distinct worldview and sensibility and a personal set of quasi-autobiographical interests."
- J. Hoberman
Sofia with her dad on the set of Godfather 2
π· Steve Schapiro, 1974
The Coppola family by Ted Streshinsky, 1974
Eleanor & Francis Ford Coppola with their kids Sofia, Roman & Gian-Carlo
Celebrate the Red Garland Centennial ππ―
π· Bill Spilka, c. 1957
"Garland's style was understated and harmonically sophisticated; he would delineate a melody, then shade it with distinctively voiced block chords and hints of counterpoint."
- Jon Pareles #RedGarland100
Esmond Edwards' great album cover for Red Garland's "Red in Bluesville", from 1959. Edwards took the photo, & designed the album as well.
Remembering Bea Arthur on her birthday π
π· Martin Mills, 1972
"Those of us working with her knew we were working with a golden comedic touch." - Norman Lear
Beatrice Arthur with Bill Callaway & Carl Ballantine in Bruce Jay Friedman & Richard Adler's musical A Mother's Kisses
π· Jack Mitchell, 1968
Angela Lansbury & Beatrice Arthur in Mame
π· Friedman-Abeles, 1966
Arthur won the Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony for her performance. She was Beatrice on the stage & Bea on TV.