12th Annual “Love ‘n’ Courage” Benefit
The Yip Harburg Foundation's Rainbow Troupe will perform at the 12th Annual "Love 'n' Courage" Benefit on March 2, 2015 at the National Arts Club in New York City. The occasion benefits Theater for the New City's Emerging Playwrights Program.
Amanda Thorpe: Bewitching Me
Anglo-American singer Amanda Thorpe will give an encore performance of songs from her new CD, Bewitching Me: The Lyrics of Yip Harburg, on May 7, 2015 at Rockwood Music Hall, following up on her successful prior engagement at that venue on March 2. The 15-song album is dedicated to the lyrics of Yip, … Continue Reading ››
Nov. 16, 2014 Yip Harburg Tribute
Theatre educator and historian Bonnie Weiss presents her traveling tribute to Yip at the San Francisco Jewish Community Library on Nov. 16, 2014.
Ohio State U Marching Band Oz Tribute 9-27-14
On Sept. 27, 2014 the Ohio State University Marching Band performed an 8-minute tribute to The Wizard of Oz as a half-time show, directed by Russel Mikkelson and featuring extraordinary drill formations by Christopher Hoch. The occasion was a game between the Buckeyes and Cincinnati.
NEW CD: EASY COME, EASY GO
San Francisco-based singer Linda Kosut released her new CD, Easy Come, Easy Go: The Music of Johnny Green, in September 2014. Green, best known as an Oscar-winning musical arranger and conductor of Hollywood film scores (including An American in Paris and Raintree County) wrote a number of popular songs early in his career, including about ten with Yip. … Continue Reading ››
Bloomer Girl: Oct. 3-5, 2014
Bloomer Girl, Yip's 1944 musical with Harold Arlen and a book by Sig Herzig and Fred Saidy, was ahead of its time with its feminist and anti-racist themes. At the Provincetown Playhouse in NYC Oct. 3-5, 2014.
Harriet Alonso. Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist
Harriet Alonso. Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist. Wesleyan University Press, 2012. 305 pages, with illustrations. This interview-based biography is, in the author's words, "a study of the lyrical world of Yip Harburg, as told largely by Yip himself through interviews, speeches, song lyrics, and poems."
American Musicals 1927-1949
In September 2014 The Library of America published American Musicals: 1927-1949, the first in a two-volume anthology of sixteen of the greatest librettos of the American musical theatre. Finian's Rainbow (1947), with a book by Fred Saidy and Yip Harburg, is included.
