Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener's Companion - Hardcover (ONLINE ORDER ONLY)

by Kat Sherrell (Author)

Sherrell explores American musical theater, beginning with the early-twentieth-century shift from European-influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works and thus provides listeners with the tools and background necessary to gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of Broadway music.

Author Biography

Kat Sherrell is a conductor, pianist, and writer. Her work in New York has included Broadway shows In the Heights, Bring It On and The Book of Mormon and NBC's Smash, as well as many new musicals in various stages of development, including Sweethearts of Swing, for which she is the lyricist-composer.