Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians Paperback - 2007
by Virginia Waring
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Famous American, chorus leader, showman, glee club pioneer, golf tournament host, entrepreneur--the man who taught America how to sing. Fred Waring was all of these and more, an enigma who held together a major musical organization for 67 years. The CD features 28 selections recorded by the Pennsylvanians over a 40-year period. 6 cartoons.
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Details
- Title Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
- Author Virginia Waring
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date 2007
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0252074440I4N00
- ISBN 9780252074448 / 0252074440
- Weight 1.68 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 6.14 x 8.7 x 1.08 in (15.60 x 22.10 x 2.74 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Geographic Orientation: Pennsylvania
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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First line
FREDERIC MALCOLM WARING was born June 9, 1900-the beginning of a new century.
From the rear cover
Famous American, chorus leader, showman, glee club pioneer, golf tournament host, entrepreneur - the man who taught America how to sing! Fred Waring was all of these and more, an enigma who held together a major musical organization for sixty-seven years, a man at ease on stage but loathe to sit through meetings, a man so earnest in his patriotism that by the 1980s he was considered almost an endangered species. Virginia Waring, his wife of thirty years, chronicles both his many achievements and his shortcomings with candor and affection in Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians. Her gracefully written biography traces Waring's childhood in Tyrone, Pennsylvania, his rise to fame as a bandleader, development and promotion of the Waring Blendor, leadership of Shawnee Press, concert tours, radio and television programs, and his legacy of the highest possible standards in music as in life. This intimate portrait of an American legend is accompanied by a compact disc with twenty-eight selections recorded by the Pennsylvanians over a forty-year period.
