“Over the Rainbow” at City Hall

On January 1, 2026 singer/actor Mandy Patinkin, with students from the Public School

“Oz” manuscripts added to Library of Congress

On August 25, 2025 the Library of Congress announced the acquisition of “rare music

Billy Ray Cyrus, along with guitarist-singer Micki Free and producer-singer-composer Buck 22 released a

Composer Philip Springer who wrote several songs with Yip, mostly in the 1970's during

Ari Axelrod’s CD, A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway, released Jan.

Lyricist Ira Gershwin, Yip's friend since their high school days together beginning in 1910,

Stephen Banfield. Jerome Kern. Yale Broadway Masters Series. Yale University Press, 2006. Contains a section about

Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnick. Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time. NY: Black

Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin. Song by Song: 14 Great Lyric Writers. England: Ross Anderson Publications,

Contemporary Authors, vols. 85-88. Detroit: Gale Research Co.,

Current Biography, 1980. NY: H.W.

Lehman Engel. Their Words Are Music: The Great Theatre Lyricists and Their Lyrics. NY: Crown,

David Ewen. Great Men of American Popular Song. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall,

Caryl Flinn. Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman. University of California Press,

John Fricke, Jay Scarfone, and William Stillman. The Wizard of Oz: The Official 50th Anniversary Pictorial

Will Friedwald. Stardust Memories: A Biography of Twelve of America's Most Popular Songs. NY: Pantheon, 2002.