National Recording Registry
2004
Table:
Recording or collection

Performer or agent

Year

National
Archives

"Gypsy Love Song"

Eugene Cowles

1898

"Some of These Days"

Sophie Tucker

1911

"The Castles in Europe One-Step
(Castle House Rag)"

Europe's Society Orchestra

1914

"Swanee"

Al Jolson

1920

Armistice Day radio broadcast

Woodrow Wilson

November 10, 1923

original

"See See Rider"

Gertrude "Ma" Rainey

1923

"Charleston"

Golden Gate Orchestra

1925

"Fascinating Rhythm"

Fred and
Adele Astaire;
George Gershwin, piano

1926

NBC radio coverage of
Charles A. Lindbergh's
arrival and reception
in Washington, D.C.

June 11, 1927

copy

"Stardust"

Hoagy Carmichael

1927

"Blue Yodel (T for Texas)"

Jimmie Rodgers

1927

"Ain't Misbehavin'"

Thomas "Fats" Waller

1929

"Gregorio Cortez"

Trovadores Regionales

1929

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor

Sergei Rachmaninoff, piano;
Leopold Stokowski, conductor;
Philadelphia Orchestra

1929

"The Suncook Town Tragedy"

Mabel Wilson Tatro

July 1930

Oral narrative from
the Lorenzo D. Turner Collection

Rosina Cohen

1932

"Stormy Weather"

Ethel Waters

1933

"Body and Soul"

Coleman Hawkins

1939

Peter and the Wolf
(Sergey Prokofiev)

Serge Koussevitzky, conductor;
Richard Hale, narrator;
Boston Symphony Orchestra

1939

"In the Mood"

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra

1939

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Some of These Days is a popular song , written and composed by Shelton Brooks , published in 1910 , and associated with the performer Sophie Tucker .
Sophie Tucker ( January 13 , 1886 - February 9 , 1966 ) was a Ukrainian-born American singer , comedian , actress , and radio personality . Known for her powerful delivery of comical and risqué songs , she was one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first half of the 20th century . She was widely known by the superlative nickname The Last of the Red Hot Mamas .
James Reese Europe ( February 22 , 1880 - May 9 , 1919 ) , sometimes known as Jim Europe , was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader , arranger , and composer . He was the leading figure on the Black American music scene of New York City in the 1910s . Eubie Blake called him the Martin Luther King of music .
Swanee is an American popular song written in 1919 by George Gershwin , with lyrics by Irving Caesar . It is most often associated with singer Al Jolson . The song was written for a New York City revue called Demi-Tasse , which opened in October 1919 in the Capitol Theater . Caesar and Gershwin , who was then aged 20 , claimed to have written the song in about ten minutes riding on a bus in Manhattan , finishing it at Gershwin 's apartment . It was written partly as a parody of Stephen Foster 's Old Folks at Home , even filching the title for the Swanee lyrics . It was originally used as a big production number , with 60 chorus girls dancing with electric lights in their slippers on an otherwise darkened stage . The song had little impact in its first show , but not long afterwards Gershwin played it at a party where Al Jolson heard it . Jolson then put it into his show Sinbad , already a success at the Winter Garden Theatre , and recorded it for Columbia Records in January 1920 . After that , said Gershwin , Swanee penetrated the four corners of the earth . The song was charted in 1920 for 18 weeks holding the No . 1 position for nine . It sold a million sheet music copies , and an estimated two million records .
Al Jolson ( born Asa Yoelson ; 9 June [ O.S . 28 May ] 1886 - October 23 , 1950 ) was an American singer , comedian , and actor . He was dubbed The World 's Greatest Entertainer at the peak of his career . His performing style was brash and extroverted , and he popularized many songs that benefited from his shamelessly sentimental , melodramatic approach . In the 1920s , Jolson was America 's most famous and highest-paid entertainer . Although best remembered today as the star of the first talking picture , The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ) , he starred in a series of successful musical films during the 1930s . After the attack on Pearl Harbor , he was the first star to entertain troops overseas during World War II . After a period of inactivity , his stardom returned with The Jolson Story ( 1946 ) , for which Larry Parks played Jolson , with the singer dubbing for Parks . The formula was repeated in a sequel , Jolson Sings Again ( 1949 ) . In 1950 , he again became the first star to entertain GIs on active service in the Korean War , performing 42 shows in 16 days . He died weeks after returning to the U.S. , partly owing to the physical exertion of performing . Defense Secretary George Marshall posthumously awarded him the Medal for Merit .
Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne , France at 5:45 am , for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of World War I , which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning - the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 . But , according to Thomas R. Gowenlock , an intelligence officer with the U.S. First Division , shelling from both sides continued for the rest of the day , only ending at nightfall . The armistice initially expired after a period of 36 days and had to be extended several times . A formal peace agreement was only reached when the Treaty of Versailles was signed the following year . The date is a national holiday in France , and was declared a national holiday in many Allied nations . However , many Western countries and associated nations have since changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day , with member states of the Commonwealth of Nations adopting Remembrance Day , and the United States government opting for Veterans Day . In some countries Armistice Day coincides with other public holidays . On 11 November 2018 , the centenary of the World War One Armistice , commemorations were held globally . In France , more than 60 heads of government and heads of state gathered at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris .
Thomas Woodrow Wilson ( December 28 , 1856 - February 3 , 1924 ) was an American politician , lawyer , and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 . A member of the Democratic Party , Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the 34th governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election . As president , he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933 . He also led the United States into World War I in 1917 , establishing an activist foreign policy known as Wilsonianism . He was the leading architect of the League of Nations . Wilson spent his early years in the American South ( mainly in Augusta , Georgia ) during the Civil War and Reconstruction . After earning a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University , Wilson taught at various schools before becoming the president of Princeton University . As governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913 , Wilson broke with party bosses and won the passage of several progressive reforms . His success in New Jersey gave him a national reputation as a progressive reformer , and he won the presidential nomination at the 1912 Democratic National Convention . Wilson defeated incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft and Progressive Party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to win the 1912 presidential election , becoming the first Southerner to be elected president since the American Civil War . During his first term , Wilson presided over the passage of his progressive New Freedom domestic agenda . His first major priority was the passage of the Revenue Act of 1913 , which lowered tariffs and implemented a federal income tax .
See See Rider , also known as C.C . Rider , See See Rider Blues or Easy Rider , is a popular American 12-bar blues folk blues song that became one of the most popular blues and jazz standards . Gertrude Ma Rainey was the first to record it on October 16 , 1924 at Paramount Records in New York . The song uses mostly traditional blues lyrics to tell the story of an unfaithful lover , commonly called an easy rider : See see rider , see what you have done , making a play on the word see and the sound of easy .
Ma Rainey ( born Gertrude Pridgett , September 1882 or April 26 , 1886 - December 22 , 1939 ) was one of the earliest African-American professional blues singers and one of the first generation of blues singers to record . She was billed as the Mother of the Blues . She began performing as a teenager and became known as Ma Rainey after her marriage to Will Rainey , in 1904 . They toured with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and later formed their own group , Rainey and Rainey , Assassinators of the Blues . Her first recording was made in 1923 . In the next five years , she made over 100 recordings , including Bo-Weevil Blues ( 1923 ) , Moonshine Blues ( 1923 ) , See See Rider Blues ( 1924 ) , Black Bottom ( 1927 ) , and Soon This Morning ( 1927 ) . Rainey was known for her powerful vocal abilities , energetic disposition , majestic phrasing , and a moaning style of singing . Her qualities are present and most evident in her early recordings Bo-Weevil Blues and Moonshine Blues . Rainey recorded with Louis Armstrong , and she toured and recorded with the Georgia Jazz Band . She continued to tour until 1935 , when she retired and went to live in her hometown .
Fascinating Rhythm is a popular song written by George Gershwin in 1924 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin . It was first introduced by Cliff Edwards , Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire in the Broadway musical Lady Be Good . The Astaires also recorded the song on April 19 , 1926 in London with George Gershwin on the piano ( English Columbia 3968 or 8969 ) . Many recorded versions exist . One of the rarest recordings [ citation needed ] is one by Joe Bari ( a pseudonym of Anthony Dominick Benedetto , later better known as Tony Bennett ) for Leslie Records in 1949 and issued as catalog number 919 with Vieni Qui as the flip side . Having rerecorded it as a duet with Diana Krall in 2018 for their duet album Love Is Here to Stay , he currently holds the Guinness World Record for the longest time between the release of an original recording and a re-recording of the same single by the same artist . Fascinating Rhythm inspired the riff to the 1974 Deep Purple song Burn . The 1926 Astaire/Gershwin version and a 1938 version by Hawaiian steel guitarist Sol Hoʻopiʻi have both been added to the Library of Congress 's National Recording Registry of culturally , historically , or aesthetically important American sound recordings .
Fred Astaire ( born Frederick Austerlitz ; May 10 , 1899 - June 22 , 1987 ) was an American dancer , singer , actor , choreographer , and television presenter . He is widely considered the most influential dancer in the history of film . His stage and subsequent film and television careers spanned a total of 76 years . He starred in more than 10 Broadway and West End musicals , made 31 musical films , four television specials , and issued numerous recordings . As a dancer , his most outstanding traits were his uncanny sense of rhythm , his perfectionism , and his innovation . His most memorable dancing partnership was with Ginger Rogers , with whom he co-starred in a series of ten Hollywood musicals . The American Film Institute named Astaire the fifth greatest male star of Classic Hollywood cinema in 100 Years . 100 Stars . Gene Kelly , another renowned star of filmed dance , said that the history of dance on film begins with Astaire . Later , he asserted that Astaire was the only one of today 's dancers who will be remembered . Beyond film and television , many dancers and choreographers , including Rudolf Nureyev , Sammy Davis Jr. , Michael Jackson , Gregory Hines , Mikhail Baryshnikov , George Balanchine , Jerome Robbins , Madhuri Dixit , and Bob Fosse , who called Astaire his idol , also acknowledged his influence .
Adele Astaire ( born Adele Marie Austerlitz , later known as Lady Charles Cavendish ; September 10 , 1896 - January 25 , 1981 ) , was an American dancer , stage actress , and singer . After beginning work as a dancer and vaudeville performer at the age of nine , Astaire built a successful performance career with her younger brother , Fred Astaire . The brother and sister act initially worked their way through vaudeville circuits , finally achieving a breakthrough with their first Broadway roles in 1917 . Astaire became known for her talents as a skilled dancer and comedienne , starring in hit Broadway musicals such as Lady , Be Good ! ( 1924 ) , Funny Face ( 1927 ) and The Band Wagon ( 1931 ) . The siblings took several of their more popular shows to Britain 's West End during the 1920s , where they were soon international celebrities , meeting members of the British royal family and prominent figures from contemporary arts and literature circles . In 1932 , after a 27-year partnership with her brother , Astaire retired from the stage to marry Lord Charles Cavendish , the second son of the 9th Duke of Devonshire . The couple moved to the Cavendish estate of Lismore Castle in Ireland . Despite offers of both stage and film roles from producers eager to see her return to acting , Astaire declined to come out of retirement . Following Cavendish 's death in 1944 , Astaire remarried and moved back to the United States . She divided her time between properties in the United States ; Round Hill , Jamaica ; and her old home of Lismore Castle , where she spent her summers up until the end of her life . In 1972 , Astaire was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame .
George Gershwin ( /ˈɡɜːrʃ.wɪn/ ; born Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz , September 26 , 1898 - July 11 , 1937 ) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres . Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue ( 1924 ) and An American in Paris ( 1928 ) , the songs Swanee ( 1919 ) and Fascinating Rhythm ( 1924 ) , the jazz standard I Got Rhythm ( 1930 ) , and the opera Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ) which spawned the hit Summertime . Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark , Henry Cowell , and Joseph Brody . He began his career as a song plugger but soon started composing Broadway theater works with his brother Ira Gershwin and with Buddy DeSylva . He moved to Paris intending to study with Nadia Boulanger , but she refused him . He subsequently composed An American in Paris , returned to New York City and wrote Porgy and Bess with Ira and DuBose Heyward . Initially a commercial failure , it came to be considered one of the most important American operas of the twentieth century and an American cultural classic . Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores . He died in 1937 of a malignant brain tumor . His compositions have been adapted for use in film and television , with several becoming jazz standards recorded and covered in many variations .
The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) is an American English-language commercial terrestrial radio and television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal , a subsidiary of Comcast . The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City , with additional major offices near Los Angeles ( at 10 Universal City Plaza ) , Chicago ( at the NBC Tower ) and Philadelphia ( at the Comcast Technology Center ) . The network is one of the Big Three television networks . NBC is sometimes referred to as the Peacock Network , in reference to its stylized peacock logo , introduced in 1956 to promote the company 's innovations in early color broadcasting . It became the network 's official emblem in 1979 . Founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America ( RCA ) , NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States . At that time the parent company of RCA was General Electric ( GE ) . In 1932 , GE was forced to sell RCA and NBC as a result of antitrust charges . In 1986 , control of NBC passed back to General Electric ( GE ) through its $ 6.4 billion purchase of RCA . GE immediately began to liquidate RCA 's various divisions , but retained NBC . Following the acquisition by GE , Bob Wright served as chief executive officer of NBC , remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007 , when he was succeeded by Jeff Zucker . In 2003 , French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE , forming NBC Universal .
Charles Augustus Lindbergh ( February 4 , 1902 - August 26 , 1974 ) was an American aviator , military officer , author , inventor , and activist . At age 25 in 1927 , he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a nonstop flight from New York to Paris . Lindbergh covered the ​33 1⁄2-hour , 3,600-statute-mile ( 5,800 km ) flight alone in a purpose-built , single-engine Ryan monoplane , the Spirit of St. Louis . Although not the first non-stop transatlantic flight , this was the first solo transatlantic flight , the first transatlantic flight between two major city hubs , and the longest transatlantic flight by almost 2,000 miles , thus it is widely known as a turning point in the trajectory of aviation history and advancement . Lindbergh was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve , and he received the United States ' highest military decoration , the Medal of Honor , for his transatlantic flight . His achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail , which revolutionized the aviation industry , and he devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity . Lindbergh 's historic flight and celebrity status also led to tragedy . In March 1932 , his infant son , Charles Jr. , was kidnapped and murdered in what the American media called the Crime of the Century . The case prompted the United States Congress to establish kidnapping as a federal crime once the kidnapper had crossed state lines with their victim . By late 1935 , the hysteria surrounding the case had driven the Lindbergh family into exile in Europe , from which they returned in 1939 . Before the United States entered World War II , Lindbergh was an advocate of non-interventionism and a supporter of Nazi Germany . He opposed not only the intervention of the United States , but also the granting of aid to the United Kingdom .
Stardust is a popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics added by Mitchell Parish in 1929 . Carmichael recorded the song , originally titled Star Dust , at the Gennett studio in Richmond , Indiana . The song about a song about love , played in an idiosyncratic melody in medium tempo , became an American standard and is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century with over 1,500 recordings . In 2004 , Carmichael 's 1927 recording of the song was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry .
Hoagland Howard Hoagy Carmichael ( November 22 , 1899 - December 27 , 1981 ) was an American singer , songwriter , and actor . American composer and author , Alec Wilder described Carmichael as the most talented , inventive , sophisticated and jazz-oriented of all the great craftsmen of pop songs in the first half of the 20th century . Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies , such as television and the use of electronic microphones and sound recordings . Carmichael composed several hundred songs , including 50 that achieved hit record status . He is best known for composing the music for Stardust , Georgia on My Mind ( lyrics by Stuart Gorrell ) , The Nearness of You , and Heart and Soul ( in collaboration with lyricist Frank Loesser ) , four of the most-recorded American songs of all time . He also collaborated with lyricist Johnny Mercer on Lazybones and Skylark . Carmichael 's Ole Buttermilk Sky was an Academy Award nominee in 1946 , from Canyon Passage , in which he co-starred as a musician riding a mule . In the Cool , Cool , Cool of the Evening , with lyrics by Mercer , won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1951 . Carmichael also appeared as a character actor and musical performer in 14 films , hosted three musical-variety radio programs , performed on television , and wrote two autobiographies .
The blue yodel songs are a series of thirteen songs written and recorded by Jimmie Rodgers during the period from 1927 to his death in May 1933 . The songs were based on the 12-bar blues format and featured Rodgers trademark yodel refrains . The lyrics often had a risqué quality with a macho , slightly dangerous undertone . The original 78 issue of Blue Yodel No . 1 ( T for Texas ) sold more than a half million copies , a phenomenal number at the time . The term blue yodel is also sometimes used to differentiate the earlier Austrian yodeling from the American form of yodeling introduced by Rodgers .
James Charles Rodgers ( September 8 , 1897 - May 26 , 1933 ) was an American singer-songwriter and musician who rose to popularity in the late 1920s . Widely regarded as the Father of Country Music , he is best known for his distinctive rhythmic yodeling . Unusual for a music star , Rodgers rose to prominence based upon his recordings , among country music 's earliest , rather than concert performances - which followed to similar public acclaim . He has been cited as an inspiration by many artists and inductees into various halls of fame across both country music and the blues , in which he was also a pioneer . Among his other popular nicknames are The Singing Brakeman and The Blue Yodeler .
Ai n't Misbehavin ' is a 1929 stride jazz/early swing song . Andy Razaf wrote the lyrics to a score by Thomas Fats Waller and Harry Brooks for the Broadway musical comedy play Connie 's Hot Chocolates . It has a thirty-two-bar form ( AABA ) at a slow-to-moderate tempo . [ citation needed ] Waller said the song was written while lodging in prison ( for an alimony violation ) , and that is why he was not misbehaving . [ citation needed ]
Thomas Wright Fats Waller ( May 21 , 1904 - December 15 , 1943 ) was an American jazz pianist , organist , composer , violinist , singer , and comedic entertainer . His innovations in the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano . His best-known compositions , Ai n't Misbehavin ' and Honeysuckle Rose , were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984 and 1999 . Waller copyrighted over 400 songs , many of them co-written with his closest collaborator , Andy Razaf . Razaf described his partner as the soul of melody . a man who made the piano sing . both big in body and in mind . known for his generosity . a bubbling bundle of joy . It 's possible he composed many more popular songs and sold them to other performers when times were tough . Waller started playing the piano at the age of six , and became a professional organist aged 15 . By the age of 18 he was a recording artist .
Gregorio Cortez Lira ( June 22 , 1875 - February 28 , 1916 ) was a Mexican American tenant farmer in the American Old West who became a folk hero to Mexicans living in South Texas . He was described as a honorable man that defended his right with his pistol in his hand . He was particularly revered for his ability to evade authorities , as well as his impassioned words in court . His life was converted into a legend by people on the Rio Grande border . Gregorio Cortez 's life was commonly recited through famous border ballads or corridos where facts were often dramatisized and exaggerated .
The Piano Concerto No . 2 in C minor , Op . 18 , is a concerto for piano and orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901 . The second and third movements were first performed with the composer as soloist on 2 December 1900 . The complete work was premiered , again with the composer as soloist , on 9 November 1901 , with his cousin Alexander Siloti conducting . This piece is one of Rachmaninoff 's most enduringly popular pieces , and established his fame as a concerto composer .
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff [ a ] ( English : /rɑːxˈmɑːnəˌnɔːf , -ˌnɒf , rɑːk-/ rahkh-MAH-nə-nawf , -⁠nof , rahk- ; Russian : Серге́й Васи́льевич Рахма́нинов [ b ] , tr . Sergei Vasilyevich Rakhmaninov , IPA : [ sʲɪrˈɡʲej vɐˈsʲilʲjɪvʲɪt͡ɕ rɐxˈmanʲɪnəf ] ; 1 April [ O.S . 20 March ] 1873 - 28 March 1943 [ c ] [ d ] ) was a Russian composer , virtuoso pianist , and conductor of the late Romantic period . The influence of Tchaikovsky , Rimsky-Korsakov , Balakirev , Mussorgsky , and other Russian composers is seen in his early works , later giving way to a personal style notable for song-like melodicism , expressiveness and rich orchestral colors . Born into a musical family , Rachmaninoff took up the piano at the age of four . He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 , having already composed several piano and orchestral pieces . In 1897 , following the negative critical reaction to his Symphony No . 1 , Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his enthusiastically received Piano Concerto No . 2 in 1901 . In the course of the next sixteen years , Rachmaninoff conducted at the Bolshoi Theatre , relocated to Dresden , Germany , and toured the United States for the first time . Rachmaninoff often featured the piano in his compositions , and he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument through his own skills as a pianist . Following the Russian Revolution , Rachmaninoff and his family left Russia ; in 1918 , they settled in the United States , first in New York City .
The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra , based in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . One of the Big Five American orchestras , the orchestra is based at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts , where it performs its subscription concerts , numbering over 130 annually , in Verizon Hall . From its founding until 2001 , the Philadelphia Orchestra gave its concerts at the Academy of Music . The orchestra continues to own the Academy , and returns there one week per year for the Academy of Music 's annual gala concert and concerts for school children . The Philadelphia Orchestra 's summer home is the Mann Center for the Performing Arts . It also has summer residencies at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center , and since July 2007 at the Bravo ! Vail Valley Festival in Vail , Colorado . The orchestra also performs an annual series of concerts at Carnegie Hall . From its earliest days the orchestra has been active in the recording studio , making extensive numbers of recordings , primarily for RCA Victor and Columbia Records . The orchestra 's current music director is Yannick Nézet-Séguin , since 2012 .
A narrative or story is an account of a series of related events , experiences , or the like , whether true ( episode , vignette , travelogue , memoir , autobiography , biography ) or fictitious ( fairy tale , fable , story , epic , legend , novel ) . The word derives from the Latin verb narrare ( to tell ) , which is derived from the adjective gnarus ( knowing or skilled ) . Along with argumentation , description , and exposition , narration , broadly defined , is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse . More narrowly defined , it is the fiction-writing mode in which the narrator communicates directly to the reader . Oral storytelling is the earliest method for sharing narratives . During most people 's childhoods , narratives are used to guide them on proper behavior , cultural history , formation of a communal identity and values , as especially studied in anthropology today among traditional indigenous peoples . Narrative is found in all forms of human creativity , art , and entertainment , including speech , literature , theatre , music and song , comics , journalism , film , television and video , video games , radio , game-play , unstructured recreation and performance in general , as well as some painting , sculpture , drawing , photography and other visual arts , as long as a sequence of events is presented . Several art movements , such as modern art , refuse the narrative in favor of the abstract and conceptual . Narrative can be organized into a number of thematic or formal categories : non-fiction ( such as definitively including creative non-fiction , biography , journalism , transcript poetry and historiography ) ; fictionalization of historical events ( such as anecdote , myth , legend and historical fiction ) and fiction proper ( such as literature in prose and sometimes poetry , such as short stories , novels and narrative poems and songs , and imaginary narratives as portrayed in other textual forms , games or live or recorded performances ) . Narratives may also be nested within other narratives , such as narratives told by an unreliable narrator ( a character ) typically found in the genre of noir fiction . An important part of narration is the narrative mode , the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a process narration ( see also Aesthetics approach below ) .
Stormy Weather is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler . Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it that year , and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford . Also 1933 , for the first time in history the entire floor revue from Harlem 's Cotton Club went on tour , playing theatres in principal cities . The revue was originally called The Cotton Club Parade of 1933 but for the road tour it was changed to the Stormy Weather Revue and as the name implies , the show contained the hit song Stormy Weather which was sung by Adelaide Hall . Already in September 1933 , the group Comedian Harmonists released their German cover version , titled Ohne Dich with lyrics that are quite different . The song has since been performed by such diverse artists as Frank Sinatra , Judy Garland , Etta James , Ella Fitzgerald , Dinah Washington , Clodagh Rodgers , Reigning Sound and , most famously , by Lena Horne and Billie Holiday . Leo Reisman 's orchestra version had the biggest hit on records ( with Arlen himself as vocalist ) , although Ethel Waters 's recorded version also sold well . [ citation needed ] Stormy Weather was featured in the 1943 movie of the same name . The song tells of disappointment , as the lyrics , Do n't know why there 's no sun up in the sky , show someone pining for her man to return . The weather is a metaphor for the feelings of the singer : stormy weather since my man and I ai n't together , keeps raining all the time . The original handwritten lyrics , along with a painting by Ted Koehler , were featured on the ( US ) Antiques Roadshow on January 24 , 2011 , where they were appraised for between $ 50,000 and $ 100,000 . The lyrics show a number of crossings out and corrections .
Ethel Waters ( October 31 , 1896 - September 1 , 1977 ) was an American singer and actress . Waters frequently performed jazz , swing , and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts , but she began her career in the 1920s singing blues . Waters notable recordings include Dinah , Stormy Weather , Taking a Chance on Love , Heat Wave , Supper Time , Am I Blue ? , Cabin in the Sky , I 'm Coming Virginia , and her version of His Eye Is on the Sparrow . Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award . She was the first African-American to star on her own television show and the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award .
Body and Soul is a popular song and jazz standard written in 1930 with music by Johnny Green and lyrics by Edward Heyman , Robert Sour and Frank Eyton .
Coleman Randolph Hawkins ( November 21 , 1904 - May 19 , 1969 ) , nicknamed Hawk and sometimes Bean , was an American jazz tenor saxophonist . One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument , as Joachim E. Berendt explained : there were some tenor players before him , but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn . Hawkins biographer John Chilton described the prevalent styles of tenor saxophone solos prior to Hawkins as mooing and rubbery belches . Hawkins cited as influences Happy Caldwell , Stump Evans , and Prince Robinson , although he was the first to tailor his method of improvisation to the saxophone rather than imitate the techniques of the clarinet . Hawkins ' virtuosic , arpeggiated approach to improvisation , with his characteristic rich , emotional , loud , and vibrato-laden tonal style , was the main influence on a generation of tenor players that included Chu Berry , Charlie Barnet , Tex Beneke , Ben Webster , Vido Musso , Herschel Evans , Buddy Tate , and Don Byas , and through them the later tenormen , Arnett Cobb , Illinois Jacquet , Flip Phillips , Ike Quebec , Al Sears , Paul Gonsalves , and Lucky Thompson . While Hawkins became well known with swing music during the big band era , he had a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s . Fellow saxophonist Lester Young , known as Pres , commented in a 1959 interview with The Jazz Review : As far as I 'm concerned , I think Coleman Hawkins was the President first , right ? As far as myself , I think I 'm the second one . Miles Davis once said : When I heard Hawk , I learned to play ballads .
Peter and the Wolf ( Russian : Пе́тя и волк , tr . Pétya i volk , IPA : [ ˈpʲetʲə i volk ] ) Op . 67 , a 'symphonic fairy tale for children ' , is a musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 . The narrator tells a children 's story , while the orchestra illustrates it . It is Prokofiev 's most frequently performed work , and one of the most frequently performed works in the entire classical repertoire . It has been recorded many times .
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev ( /prəˈkɒfiɛf , proʊ- , -ˈkɔː- , -ˈkoʊ- , -jɛf , -jɛv , -iəf/ ; Russian : Серге́й Серге́евич Проко́фьев , tr . Sergej Sergejevič Prokofjev ; [ n 1 ] 27 April [ O.S . 15 April ] 1891 - 5 March 1953 ) [ n 2 ] was a Russian Soviet composer , pianist and conductor . As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres , he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century . His works include such widely heard pieces as the March from The Love for Three Oranges , the suite Lieutenant Kijé , the ballet Romeo and Juliet - from which Dance of the Knights is taken - and Peter and the Wolf . Of the established forms and genres in which he worked , he created - excluding juvenilia - seven completed operas , seven symphonies , eight ballets , five piano concertos , two violin concertos , a cello concerto , a symphony-concerto for cello and orchestra , and nine completed piano sonatas . A graduate of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory , Prokofiev initially made his name as an iconoclastic composer-pianist , achieving notoriety with a series of ferociously dissonant and virtuosic works for his instrument , including his first two piano concertos . In 1915 , Prokofiev made a decisive break from the standard composer-pianist category with his orchestral Scythian Suite , compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes . Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev - Chout , Le pas d'acier and The Prodigal Son - which at the time of their original production all caused a sensation among both critics and colleagues . Prokofiev 's greatest interest , however , was opera , and he composed several works in that genre , including The Gambler and The Fiery Angel . Prokofiev 's one operatic success during his lifetime was The Love for Three Oranges , composed for the Chicago Opera and subsequently performed over the following decade in Europe and Russia . After the Revolution of 1917 , Prokofiev left Russia with the official blessing of the Soviet minister Anatoly Lunacharsky , and resided in the United States , then Germany , then Paris , making his living as a composer , pianist and conductor .
Serge Alexandrovich Koussevitzky [ n 1 ] ( Russian : Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Кусеви́цкий ; Sergey Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky ; July 26 [ O.S . July 14 ] 1874 - June 4 , 1951 ) was a Russian-born conductor , composer and double-bassist , known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949 .
The Boston Symphony Orchestra ( BSO ) is an American orchestra based in Boston , Massachusetts . It is one of the five major American symphony orchestras commonly referred to as the Big Five . Founded in 1881 , the BSO plays most of its concerts at Boston 's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at Tanglewood . Andris Nelsons is the current music director of the BSO . Bernard Haitink currently holds the title of conductor emeritus of the BSO , and Seiji Ozawa has the title of BSO music director laureate .
In the Mood is a popular big band-era jazz standard recorded by American bandleader Glenn Miller . A No . 1 hit , it topped the charts for 13 straight weeks in 1940 in the U.S. [ citation needed ] and one year later was featured in the movie Sun Valley Serenade . In the Mood is based on the composition Tar Paper Stomp by Wingy Manone . The first recording under the name In the Mood was released by Edgar Hayes & His Orchestra in 1938 . In 1983 , the Glenn Miller recording from 1939 was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame . In 2004 , the recording was inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry which consists of recordings that are culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant . In 1999 , National Public Radio ( NPR ) included the 1939 Glenn Miller recording in its list of The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century . Glenn Miller 's In the Mood , with I Want to Be Happy on the B-side , became the best-selling swing instrumental .
Alton Glenn Miller ( March 1 , 1904 - disappeared December 15 , 1944 ) was an American big-band trombonist , arranger , composer , and bandleader in the swing era . He was the best-selling recording artist from 1939 to 1942 , leading one of the best-known big bands . Miller 's recordings include In the Mood , Moonlight Serenade , Pennsylvania 6-5000 , Chattanooga Choo Choo , A String of Pearls , At Last , ( I 've Got a Gal In ) Kalamazoo , American Patrol , Tuxedo Junction , Elmer 's Tune , and Little Brown Jug . In just four years Glenn Miller scored 16 number-one records and 69 top ten hits - more than Elvis Presley ( 38 top 10s ) and the Beatles ( 33 top 10s ) did in their careers . While he was traveling to entertain U.S. troops in France during World War II , Miller 's aircraft disappeared in bad weather over the English Channel .