MUSIC IN THE AIR
Composer: Jerome
Kern
Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II
Opened: November 8, 1932, Alvin Theatre, N.Y.C. and
closed on March 13, 1933; reopened on March 31, 1933, 44th
Street Theatre, and closed on September 16, 1933; May 19, 1933,
His Majesty's Theatre, London
Performances: 342 (N.Y.C.); ? (London)
Note: Only recordings of material not otherwise found on the 1952 radio cast album, CD/AEI AEI-CD 024, are noted below.
Coda:
1. Theatre Party, Columbia
(S) CS 8026 (Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra)
Good Girl (unused; considered for use
in the film version of Very Warm For May):
1. Lost Broadway And More Volume 6:
Jerome Kern, CD/Original Cast OC-1399 (Samantha Massell,
Arlo Hill, Michael Marcotte, Ari Butler, Marrick Smith,
Wendi Bergamini, and Jenny Ashman with Michael Levine,
piano)
Melodies Of May (based on
Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 3 in C opus 2):
1. Jerome Kern 1934-8, JJA
(M) 19747 (June Lang, Douglas Montgomery and Chorus)
Night Flies By (same music as "One More
Dance"):
1. Jerome Kern Revisited
Vol. III, Painted Smiles PS-1379 (Arthur Siegel and Chorus)
[reissued as CD/Painted Smiles PSCD-134]
One More Dance (same music as "Night
Flies By"):
1. 78/Victor 12418 (Victor
Light Opera Company [Dorothy Chapman, Marie Louise Quevli, Felix
Knight and Alan Holt] conducted by Leonard Joy) [reissued on The
Music Of Jerome Kern, Camden (M) CAL 243]
2. 78/Victor 39001 (Robert Simmons and Ensemble with the Victor
Light Opera Company conducted by Nat Shilkret) [also 78/HMV
C2568; reissued on The Music Of Broadway: 1930-1936, CD/Box
Office ENBO-CD2 #9/94]
3. 78/HMV C2561 (New Mayfair Orchestra conducted by Ray Noble)
4. Music In The Air, RCA Victor (M) LK 1025 (Jane Pickens with
The Guild Choristers and Al Goodman and His Orchestra) [reissued
as CD/Sepia 1085]
5. Jerome Kern Revisited Vol. III, Painted Smiles PS-1379
(Arthur Siegel and Chorus) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles
PSCD-134]
6. The Broadway Song Book, Coral (M) CX-4 (Dick Jacobs and his
Orchestra)
7. Jerome Kern 1934-8, JJA (M) 19747 (John Boles and Gloria
Swanson)
8. Till The Clouds Roll By, CD/Sony Music Special Products AK
47029 (Trudi Erwin with orchestra conducted by Lennie Hayton)
Prayer (Our Journey May Be Long):
1. Music In The Air, RCA
Victor (M) LK 1025 (Jane Pickens with The Guild Choristers and
Al Goodman and His Orchestra) [reissued as CD/Sepia 1085]
We Belong Together:
1. 78/Victor 39001
(Marjorie Horton and Robert Simmons with the Victor Light Opera
Company conducted by Nat Shilkret) [also 78/HMV C2568; reissued
on The Music Of Broadway: 1930-1936, CD/Box Office ENBO-CD2
#9/94]
2. 78/HMV C2561 (New Mayfair Orchestra conducted by Ray Noble)
3. 78/Brunswick 6439 (Lew Sherwood with Eddy Duchin and His
Central Park Casino Orchestra)
4. 78/Victor 24192 (Howard Phillips with Leo Reisman and His
Orchestra)
5. Jerome Kern Revisited Vol. III, Painted Smiles PS-1379 (Sarah
Rice and Angelina Reaux) [reissued as CD/Painted Smiles
PSCD-134]
6. Theatre Party, Columbia (S) CS 8026 (Andre Kostelanetz and
his Orchestra)
7. A Jerome Kern Festival, Longines Symphonette (S) LWS-231
(Longines Symphonette Society)
8. Music In The Air, RCA Victor (M) LK 1025 (The Guild
Choristers with Al Goodman and His Orchestra) [reissued as
CD/Sepia 1085]
9. Grey Gardens, CD/Varese Sarabande 302
066 963 2 (Jessica Lange and Malcolm Gets)
10. Grey Gardens,
CD/Varese Sarabande 302 066 963 2 (Jessica Lange)
Radio transcriptions performed by the Mischa Borr Orchestra and
by the Andre Kostelanetz Orchestra are also known to exist.
Unrecorded Material:
At Stony Brook (not in
programs)
Bubble Dance
Episode Of The Swing (ASCAP/Library Of Congress only)
Excerpts From "Tingle Tangle"
Finaletto
Hold Your Head Up High (Opening Hymn)
I'm Coming Home (Letter Song)
Interlude (ASCAP/Library Of Congress only)
Play On
Playout Music
Scena (Tingle Tangle) (ASCAP/Library Of Congress only)
Terzetto (ASCAP/Library Of Congress only)
When You're Young
Zoo Scene