This lively and engaging biography brings Wilder's life and music into the spotlight where it belongs. From Wilder's childhood in Rochester, New York, to his rise as a major writer of popular songs in the 1940s to his relationships with Frank Sinatra and cabaret singer Mabel Mercer, Stone gives readers rich insight into the profound influence of this highly unorthodox composer. of photos.
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This lively and engaging biography brings Wilder's life and music into the spotlight where it belongs. From Wilder's childhood in Rochester, New York, to his rise as a major writer of popular songs in the 1940s to his relationships with Frank Sinatra and cabaret singer Mabel Mercer, Stone gives readers rich insight into the profound influence of this highly unorthodox composer. of photos.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 9x1x6; Octavo, 9 1/2" tall, x + 244 pages, brown quarter-cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover overall with minor shelf wear, binding tight, paper clean and cream white. In a very good, lightly worn dust jacket with the original price present.
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Fine in fine jacket. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. First printing. 244 pp. with bibliography index. Biography of American popular song composer Alec Wilder. A Rochester, New York native, Wilder rose to become a major popular songwriter in the 1940s, earning the respect and admiration of important figures like Sinatra, Mabel Mercer, Peggy Lee, Mitch Miller, Gunter Schiller, and others. In addition to popular songs, this highly creative, unorthodox musician composed his famous Octets, had a seminal influence on jazz chamber music, and wrote the monumenta "America Popular Song", which remains the most significant study of America's great songwriters.