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Forgotten Gershwin Kern songs recovered treasure trove found
A Warner Brothers warehouse find in New Jersey reveals 20 000 forgotten manuscripts by Gershwin Kern Rodgers and others. Included are Kern hand written copies of Ol Man River and Can't Help Lovin Dat Man and Gershwin manuscripts, plus scores, parts, and 80 cartons studied by scholars led by Robert Kimball. The discovery is praised as unique in American music history and offers rare material for preservation and study.
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New York
George Gershwin
Jerome Kern
Richard Rodgers
Kern
Vincent Youmans
Victor Herbert
Sigmund Romberg
Rudolf Friml
Robert Kimball
National Institute For Music Theater
Stephen Foster
Walt Whitman
Kimball
Warner Brothers
Secaucus
N.J
H. Wiley Hitchcock
Institute For Studies In American Music
Brooklyn College
Gershwin