Louis a hirsch biography

Hirsch (born 1881) was.
Louis Achille Hirsch, also known as Louis A. Hirsch and Lou Hirsch (November 28, 1887 – May 13, 1924), was an American composer of songs and musicals in the.
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Midnight Frolic: The BroadwayTheater Music of Louis A. Hirsch

Colte Julian, baritone; Bernadette Boerckel, soprano; The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, Rick Benjamin, director

"Louis Hirsch wrote some of the loveliest music I ever heard on the Broadway stage. It really is a shame that it is almost completely forgotten today." —Robert Russell Bennett (1978)

From the mid-1910s until his tragic death in 1924, Louis A. Hirsch (born 1881) was one of the best and most celebrated composers of the American musical theater. From 1911 until 1924, Hirsch’s forty Broadway musical comedies and revues spotlighted him as Jerome Kern’s only true rival, and made mega-stars of several young performers—among them Al Jolson, Will Rogers, W.C. Fields, and Mae West.

Hirsch’s work is important because of its influence on American theater music: It combined, for the first time, the sounds of Hirsch’s Jewish heritage filtered through his European classical training, fused with a fascination for ragtime, blues, and early “jass.” To audiences of the 1910s, Hirsch’s music was unique and sensational.

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Louis Allen Hirsch served one brief term as President of Keneseth Israel, from 1939 to 1941. During these years, the Keneseth Israel Board created a “Junior Congregation” for people in their 20’s and 30’s who could not afford full membership. Members of the Junior Congregation were allowed some, but not all, of the privileges of membership. As the general congregation continued to grow, another branch Sunday School was established at Church and Cadwalader Roads in Elkins Park in 1941. As synagogue activities expanded, the leadership determined that a second assistant rabbi was necessary. Hirsch oversaw the hiring of two new assistant rabbis – Rabbi Joseph Klein in 1940 and Rabbi Malcolm Stern.

Louis Hirsch was born on October 6, 1888 in Philadelphia. He worked as a uniform manufacturer, running a firm called Hirsch-Tyler Co. at 10th and Berk Streets. Hirsch was also the founder and first president of the National Association of Uniform Manufacturers. Throughout his life he was active in civic and charitable work. He was

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Songwriter ("Hello, Frisco, Hello"), composer and publisher, one of the nine founders of ASCAP in 1914 and an ASCAP director between 1917 and 1924. He was educated at the City College of New York and the Stern Academy in Berlin (with Rafael Joseffy). His career began as a staff pianist with the Gus Edwards, and Shapiro & Bernstein music companies, and later he wrote songs for the Lew Dockstader Minstrels. Between 1912 and 1914 he was a staff composer for the Shubert brothers, and he wrote the Broadway stage scores for "He Came from Milwaukee", "Revue of Revues", "Vera Violeta", "Passing Show of 1912", "Ziegfeld Follies" (four editions), "Going Up", "The Rainbow Girl", "Oh, My Dear", "See Saw", "Mary", "The O'Brien Girl", "Greenwich Follies" (1922 and 1923), and "Betty Lee". He was in partnership with the Victoria Publishing Company,and his chief musical collaborators included Otto Harbach, Edward Madden, Irving Caesar, Harold Atteri