Jule Styne

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Julius Kerwin Styne , actually Julius Kerwin Stein , (born December 31, 1905 in London , England , † September 20, 1994 in New York City , New York ) was an American composer .

Life

Jule Styne was born into a Jewish family of emigrants from the Ukraine who, after a lengthy stopover in Great Britain, reached the United States in 1912. As a musically gifted child, he received piano lessons and played with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis. Probably because of too small hands and an injury to the right index finger, he turned to popular music as a teenager, played in jazz bands and composed songs.

From the mid-1930s he worked as a songwriter and language teacher in Hollywood. There he worked more closely with Frank Loesser and Sammy Cahn . He worked with Cahn on several film musicals, including Frank Sinatra . He released around 1,500 songs - for Three Coins in the Fountain from the film of the same name he received an Oscar in 1955 .

He started working on Broadway in the mid-1940s . The most famous musicals that he composed include Gypsy , Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Funny Girl . His most famous composition to this day is the song People from Funny Girl , which made Barbra Streisand world famous.

Works

Musicals with the music of Jule Styne

  • 1947: High Button Shoes - 727 performances by 1949
  • 1949 Blondinen preferably (Gentlemen Prefer Blonde) - 740 to 1951 ideas
  • 1951: Two on the Aisle
  • 1953: Hazel Flagg - Libretto: Ben Hecht
  • 1956: Bells Are Ringing - Director: Jerome Robbins - 924 performances until 1959
  • 1958: Say, darling
  • 1959: Gypsy - director: Jerome Robbins (with Ethel Merman and Jack Klugman ) - 702 performances until 1961
  • 1960: Thu Re Wed - 400 performances until 1962
  • 1961: Subways Are For Sleeping - with Sydney Chaplin
  • 1964: Funny Girl - with Sydney Chaplin and Barbra Streisand - 1348 performances until 1967
  • 1964: Fade Out, Fade In - Director: George Abbott
  • 1967: Hallelujah, Baby - Libretto: Arthur Laurents
  • 1968: Darling of the Day - with Vincent Price
  • 1970: Look to the Lilies - Directed by Joshua Logan
  • 1972: Sugar - based on the script for Some Like It Hot by Billy Wilder - 505 performances until 1973
  • 1974: Lorelei - slightly modified revival of Gentlemen Prefer Blond with Carol Channing
  • 1993: The Red Shoes - Director: Stanley Donen

Film musical (selection)

Well-known songs

Awards

The song Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend was voted number 12 in the 2004 AFI's 100 Years… 100 Songs list of the American Film Institute 's 100 Most Great Songs in American Film.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AFI's 100 Years… 100 songs. (PDF; 134 kB) In: afi.com. American Film Institute (AFI), June 22, 2005, accessed August 28, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Styne, Jule
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Styne, Julius Kerwin (full name); Stein, Julius Kerwin (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1994
Place of death New York City , New York, United States