The World of Musical Theatre from the West End to Broadway and Beyond
This one took me completely unawares. Until now the name Gerald Ginsburg meant absolutely nothing to me. I feel sure I am not alone. This largely forgotten American was born in 1932, into a world in which Gilbert and Sullivan and Jerome Kern was the popular music of the day and, inspired by their ability to tell stories through music and make words 'sing, he quietly, unassumingly, created what he referred to as 'the music of poetry' or better yet Theatre Lieder.
