Arthur Schwartz
Arthur Schwartz ( born November 25, 1900 in Brooklyn, New York City; † September 3, 1984 in Kintnersville, Pennsylvania ) was an American popular music composer. He worked with Howard Dietz and composed with him jazz standards such as " Dancing in the Dark ", " Alone Together " and "You and the Night and the Music".
Life
Even before Arthur Schwartz gave up his career as a lawyer, he published songs. 1926/27, ran his first two Broadway shows ( including The New Yorker, not to be confused with the Cole Porter show from 1930). In addition, known as Lorenz Hart and George Gershwin in the decision encouraged him to go to the Unterhaltungsmetier.
The late 1920s, Schwartz began ' collaboration with lyricist Howard Dietz, in what eventually emerged the most successful works of both songwriters. Your best-known musical The Band Wagon was listed in 1931; comes from one of their most popular songs, "Dancing in the Dark". During the Great Depression, in the early 1930s, Black, like many other songwriters began composing for film and radio, however, produced together with Dietz, later also with Dorothy Fields, further stage musicals for Broadway.
1940 Schwartz went to Hollywood. There he worked eg with Frank Loesser for the musical film Thank Your Lucky Stars. As a film producer, he has been involved in the films Cover Girl ( 1944) and Night and Day ( 1946). In 1946 he returned for a collaboration with Ira Gershwin back to New York, where he then until the early 1960s remained active. Inside USA (1948 ), along with Dietz and By the Beautiful Sea (1954 ), with Dorothy Fields were once again to Broadway hits.
In 1944 he was nominated along with Frank Loesser for the song They're Either Too Young or Too Old for an Oscar. 1948 was followed by a second Oscar nomination for the song A Gal in Calico.
For the film version of The Band Wagon the couple Schwartz / Dietz wrote the additional number " That's Entertainment " - which became their most famous hit. The duo worked together until 1963 ( Jennie ); then forced the Parkinson's disease Howard Dietz to quit; Dietz died in 1983, Schwartz a year later in London.