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' 51 ing must be increased to help offset higher costs Original Bulletin articles, or material for reprint for all aspects of Bulletin publication. that is of significant historical quality and interest, are encouraged and will be rewarded in the form of AMICA membership dues discounts. (Chapter reports and Forum inquiries are excluded.) The Cover: This lovely lady is Marguerite Melville Liszniewska. See the article in this issue by Emmett Ford, who also furnished the picture. - 31 - People The following article was given to me by Louis Alter at the Convention in Pasadena, June 1980. D.E. hattan life, haunting the speaks and other "in" places. and traipsing along streets lined with tenements and penthouses, observing, listening. and gathering the impressions he would translate into his musical labor of love. "Peopf&-who didn't live in New YOfi( in the 1920's wiD never know what a-truly magnifi­ cent place itwas,.. Altersaid. "Inspirational­ that's the best word to describe it h was boom city-Yibrant, ever-moving, untiring. "AdualIy. it was a slateof mind rather than a city, arid it attracted aJl. sorts of peopE be­ cause it was the i:iiJty place to be. To even consider mOYing to Connecticut, Jersey, or the Sunbett was unheard of. Why go there. for God's sake, when everything you wanted was here?" What emerged from his coIiection of up­ town, downtown sensations was a composi­ tion that could have had no other setting than New York. In fact, Alter is justifiably proud of the pr~given it by George Gershwin, him­ self no stranger to capturing the idioms ofthe Big Town in music. Upper East Side composer louis Alter, left, presents Gerald Mark~, a director of the "George once told me the 'Serenade' was Son~riters'Hall.of Fame, with a fjrst-edition proof of his "Manhattan Serenade" in one of his all-time favorites, and that he a recent ceremony at One Times Square. Photo Credit: F. G. VOgel wished he'd written it Then he added he might as well take credit for it, sirice every­ The Love Song of a Hard-Core New Yorker body assumed he had anyway." After its New York debut by Whiteman at By Frederick G. Vogel Broadway's Palace Theater in 1929, the piece became a staple with other concert hey say that New York City's near-de­ ing figure of Paul Whiteman, the redoubtable on:hestras and a popular exercise of young fault in 1975 turned many of its de­ "King .of Jazz" who had introduced Gersh­ piano 'pupils. Mer remembers their teachers T tractors into patriots who suddenly win's "Rhapsody in Blue" at New York's telling him that his composition goaded many realized that if the city went under, so might highly respectable Aeolian Hall in 1924. bored kiddies into keyboard diligence. They could practice the "Serenade," teachers rnost of the myriad glories associated with it. "For the next several years," Alter recalled the would promise, only after went There's ohe Upper East Sider who didn't recently in his Park Avenue apartment, "Paul but they have to be sofd on the importance of pre­ looked around for other composers to write through their Mozart and Beethoven routine. serving the New York mystique. He's been 'serious' jazz instrumentals for his orchestra. In succeeding years, the "5ecenade" was boosting it in music and speech for more than I'd written a hit sorrg called 'Blue Shadows' used as background music to identify New 50 years, and his fondness for his adopted that he liked very mUCh. So when I met him in York in the original 1933 "King Kong" and in city is undiminished by-lime. late 1927, he asked me to write a short piece 1972's "The Godfather." And old-time radio If the name of thie Big Apple super-pro­ about New York.