Showing posts with label AUTHOR E. Y. Harburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AUTHOR E. Y. Harburg. Show all posts
29 October 2025

The Wizard of Balboa Park

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The San Diego Civic Light Opera Association was founded in 1945. Its first show was Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado  in the Wegeforth Bowl...
07 May 2013

Yip Harburg and “Over the Rainbow”

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Here’s how E. Y. “Yip” Harburg described writing “Over the Rainbow,” as recorded in a 1980 radio interview and published by Harriet Hyman A...
23 April 2013

“Yip” Harburg and the Wizard’s Speech

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I had long heard that E. Y. “Yip” Harburg was responsible for the Wizard’s oft-quoted speech as he gave out gifts to Dorothy ’s three compa...
13 April 2013

Really Most Sincerely

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The biggest Oz news of the weekend is a collision of politics, historical accuracy, and poor taste that arose in the UK in the wake of Marga...
01 January 2013

“Nothing for Dorothy”?

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The Daily Ozmapolitan tipped me to this recent  profile of Andrew Lloyd Webber in the Toronto Globe and Mail . The occasion was the Toron...
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20 November 2012

Baum Quotations, Real and Imagined

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Jared Davis of the Royal Blog of Oz recently asked about a quotation that many websites and a few books attribute to L. Frank Baum : Wh...
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25 April 2011

Harburg and Arlen

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American Songwriter just posted a profile of E. Y. “Yip” Harburg , lyricist and uncredited collaborator on the screenplay of the 1939 Wizard...
10 March 2011

Boston Pops Seeks “Over the Rainbow” Videos

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Yesterday someone from a certain local nationally-known orchestra contacted me with news about the its new Oz-related project: To pay respec...
26 November 2010

“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” in Germany

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This week I heard a BBC report that the late Hawai’ian singer Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s recording of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” has been #1...