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Sheet music for “Broadway’s Not a Bad Place after All” from the theatrical revue Ziegfield Follies.
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Eddie Cantor, Harry Ruby
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1918
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III.
She: I can’t hide it anymore
I’ll reveal my bitter, heavy heart
I can’t even wait till tomorrow
Because oh does it smart!
He…
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Yehudah Leib Cahan
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1912
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23 October. The actors convince me by their presence time and again, to my consternation, that most of what I’ve written about them so far is wrong. It is wrong because I wrote about them with…
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Franz Kafka
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1911
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“Miss Duncan? The dancer? What is that—ballet?” No, it is not ballet. Missing here are the two predominant elements that make up modern ballet: there is neither dance technique nor women wearing…
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Arkadii Georgevich Gornfeld
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1905
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Bronze bowl with musicians, Cyprus, late 9th or early 8th century BCE. The engraved scene shows musicians and dancers. In this bronze bowl, five inches in diameter, three female musicians are playing…
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Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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The drumhead of this Phoenician-style terra-cotta figurine from Shikmona (south of Haifa) is recessed, suggesting that the drum had only a single head. Figurines like this are typically found in…
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Shikmona, Land of Israel (Haifa, Israel)
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Iron Age II, 9th–8th Century BCE
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Cover of sheet music for “Sadie Salome, Go Home.” Fanny Brice (1891–1951) was born Fania Borach in New York City to immigrants from Hungary and Alsace respectively. Getting her break in entertainment…
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Edgar Leslie, Irving Berlin, Artist Unknown
Date:
1909
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For the critic of the future remains the problem of estimating to what degree residence in America influenced the art of Charles Martin Loeffler and of Leo Ornstein. Patent enough to our own day is…
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Paul L. Rosenfeld
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1916
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“There is no Jewish music!” Thus concluded not only our assimilationists but also most of our nationalists.
We will not argue with the former at all, since, according to them, because there is no…
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Avraham Tsvi Idelsohn
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem)
Date:
1907