Scrawled in pencil on a scrap of yellow legal paper by lyricist E.Y. "Yip" Harburg, the artifact is among dozens of treasures ...

The Library of Congress has acquired a collection of musical manuscripts and other rare artifacts connected to "The Wizard of ...

The Library of Congress has acquired rare handwritten music and lyric sketches from Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg’s The Wizard ...

In 1938, composer Harold Arlen went for a drive with his wife to curb some writer’s block. It worked: When they returned home, Arlen had conjured the melody to “Over the Rainbow,” the centerpiece song ...

Veteran composer David Newman was tapped to re-record the entire score with a live orchestra.

"Someday I'll wish upon a star + wake + find the darkness far behind me," E. Y. (Yip) Harburg scrawled in pencil on a piece of yellow legal paper. And so was born a classic.

The Library of Congress has acquired rare music and lyric sketches from composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E.Y. “Yip” Harburg ...

The Library of Congress has added a rare trove of Wizard of Oz memorabilia to its collection, highlighted by the only known ...

Born in Buffalo in 1905, Harold Arlen never grows old. Celebrate his songs at 2 p.m. Nov. 5, when the Theatre of Youth (203 Allen St. in the historic Allendale ...

It was somewhere between the middle of the night and the beginning of the day, an ideal time for Hyman Arluck. Not yet light, but far from completely dark. Still ...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of American song master Harold Arlen. We note the occasion as Rob Kapilow takes us through one of Arlen's best known songs, "Over the Rainbow." Then ...

<p> "The distinctive Arlen touch," the critic John S. Wilson wrote in The New York Times in 1978, "was the jazz-based, blues-rooted quality of his music. Such songs as 'Stormy Weather' and 'Blues ...