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Irving Berlin: The Last Troubadour

Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley Center 1100 Jefferson Dr SW, Washington, D.C.

It was truly a “ragtime to riches” path chosen by the immigrant Russian Jew Israel Baline. A teen aged waif slumming an existence in the Bowery during the earliest years of the twentieth-century, Irving Berlin, as he was later known, began writing songs before he knew how to read music. A self-taught and rather pathetic [...]

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