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Will Irwin

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Composer 1907–1998

William C. K. Irwin (3 January 1907 – 23 October 1998) was an American pianist, conductor, and songwriter. Irwin was born in San Francisco, and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. With Australian composer Percy Grainger, Irwin studied composition before joining the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. The musical theatre composer Vernon Duke introduced Irwin to composer and songwriter George Gershwin in the 1920s. Irwin would subsequently join Gershwin and pianist Oscar Levant in piano improvisations at Gershwin's apartment. Irwin began a six-year professional relationship with songwriter and composer Irving Berlin, after being introduced to him by Gershwin. As Berlin could not read or wr…

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  • Act One: “Prologue” (lyric by Sheldon Harnick, music by Will Irwin) (Robert Strauss); Opening—“Come Along” (lyric by Sheldon Harnick, music by Will Irwin) (Company); “No Wedding Bells for Me” (lyric by Richard Ney, music by Will Irwin) (Georges Guetary); “Festa”/“Come Along” (reprise) (lyric by Sheldon Harnick, music by Will Irwin) (Compa…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Act Two: “Under a Spell” (reprise) (lyric by Richard Ney and Sheldon Harnick, music by Louis Bellson) (Georges Guetary, Girls); “That’s Love” (music uncredited, lyric by Richard Ney) (Georges Guetary, Company); “Too Little Time for Love” (lyric by Richard Ney, music by Will Irwin) (Webb Tilton); “Guido’s Tango” (music uncredited) (Robert…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Music by Raymond Scott; lyrics by Bernard Hanighen; book by Sidney Howard and Will Irwin, based on the Chinese play Pi-Pa-Kiebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
  • Lute Song (the fourteenth-century Pi-pa-Ki, as adapted by Sidney Howard and Will Irwin) and S. I. Hsiung’s Lady Precious Stream (which had a long run in England), proved that Oriental dramatic art was no longer esoteric. The distance between East and West had narrowed considerably in other respects as well, and the East felt attracted to…theatre-pdfs/A Treasury of the Theatre, v. 1.txt
  • Hanighen, book by Sidney Howard and Will Irwin, produced by Michael Meyerberg, directed by John Houseman, choreography by Yeichi Nimura, designed by Robert Edmond Jones, and also star-theatre-pdfs/Mary Martin-Broadway Legend (Ronald L. Davis).txt

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