Laura Frankos
Autore di St. Oswald's Niche
Sull'Autore
Laura Frankos is the author of several books in the fields of mystery, science fiction, and fantasy. From 2002 to 2004, she wrote Broadway trivia quizzes for the Internet, which helped inspire The Broadway Musical Quiz Book, and now writes a regular column on musical theatre history, "The Great mostra altro White Wayback Machine," for Talkinbroadway.com. Frankos and her husband, author Harry Turtledove, and their three daughters live in California. mostra meno
Opere di Laura Frankos
The Old Grind 1 copia
A Late Symmer Night's Battle 1 copia
The Sea Mother's Gift 1 copia
Natural Selection 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1960-02-09
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Istruzione
- University of California, Los Angeles (Medieval history)
- Relazioni
- Turtledove, Harry (husband)
Frankos, Steven (brother)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Opere correlate
- 13
- Utenti
- 88
- Popolarità
- #209,356
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 3
David, composer, actor, lyricist, playwright, director, producer, is able to take modern meds from 2097 back to 1934 to save Vincent Youmans from his TB and George Gershwin from his brain tumor. He has other interventions projected too. In the meantime, he makes a life for himself in the musical world and with the people who become his family in the Village. I'll read this again to follow up on songs I don't know already from the likes of Gershwin, Youmans, Porter, Kern, Weill, et al. and to long for the ones that didn't make it into our universe.
My one question, and it may be a fact of history rather than the responsibility of the author, is why there is no mention of the Harlem jazz scene: no Apollo Theater, no Duke Ellington, no Sarah Vaughan (my candidate for Best Voice of the Century). David mentions Ella Fitzgerald once. I also found a sentence to the effect that Youmans, in common with the rest of Broadway, didn't like swing. Oh well.
At any rate, anyone who loves the classic Broadway through the Golden Age should scamper to get a copy of this satisfying book NOW!… (altro)