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Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians / Virginia Waring ; foreword by Robert Shaw.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Waring, Virginia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1997.
Series:Music in American life.
Subjects:
Waring, Fred, > 1900-
Choral conductors > United States > Biography.
Pennsylvanians (Musical group)
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : the man who taught America how to sing
  • The Victorian Warings
  • Entrepreneur
  • Penn State
  • The brash kid from Tyrone
  • Milk trains
  • Stairway to fame
  • Paris
  • Fred loses his shirt
  • Ballet, classics and the Roxyettes
  • Radio days
  • Henry Ford & Co.
  • The legalities of interpretation
  • The Waring blendor
  • Burgeoning empire
  • Hollywood
  • "A cigarette, sweet music, and you"
  • My debut
  • For the sake of one singer
  • Music workshops
  • Television
  • The Anti-Semitic rumor
  • Life with Fred
  • Golf
  • "On the road again"
  • Ike and the famous
  • Crucible of professionals
  • Stroke
  • Timing
  • Phaetons, Zephyrs and Model A Fords
  • What glorious music
  • Photo album.

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