“Oz” manuscripts added to Library of Congress

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

Billy Ray Cyrus & Friends perform “Over the Rainbow”

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,

Coming from Oxford University Press on July 26, 2024, Harold Arlen and His Songs

John Lahr. The Lemon-Drop Kid in The New Yorker. Sept. 30, 1996. Reprinted in Honky Tonk

Ethan Mordden. Broadway Babies. NY: Oxford University Press,

Michael Lasser. America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Postwar Years. Routledge, 2013.

Stephen Nelson. Only a Paper Moon: The Theatre of Billy Rose. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press,

W. Rigdon, ed. Notable Names in the American Theatre. Clifton, NJ: J.T. White,

Bernard Rosenberg and Ernest Goldstein, eds., Creators and Disturbers: Reminiscences by Jewish Intellectuals of New

Deena Rosenberg. Fascinating Rhythm: The Collaboration of George and Ira Gershwin. 2nd ed. University of Michigan Press,

Deena Rosenberg and Harold Meyerson. Essay for The Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Song Lyricists,

Stephen Sondheim. Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954-1981) with Attendant Comments, Principles, Heresies, Grudges, Whines

Michael Sragow. Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master, Pantheon, 2008. This well researched biography of