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Episode Detail: A Tribute to American Music: Jerome Kern - In Performance at the White House

Marvin Hamlisch hosts a tribute to Jerome Kern, "the father of American musical theater," taped in October 1987. Highlights: "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Doc Severinsen); "Make Believe" (Johnny Mathis); "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (Roberta Flack); "Long Ago and Far Away" (Barbara Cook).

Episodes: A Tribute to American Music: Jerome Kern - In Performance at the White House - 36 total Episodes

10/15/2009: Fiesta Latina
2/26/2009: Stevie Wonder in Performance at the White House: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize
4/4/2007: Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
6/28/2006: Dance Theatre of Harlem
5/28/2006: The Congressional Picnic
9/6/2001: The President's Own
11/4/1999: The Blues
9/2/1999: The Singer and the Song
In Performance at the White House
A Tribute to American Music: Jerome Kern
In Performance at the White House
A Salute to the Newport Jazz Festival
Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville
Gospel
Aretha Franklin
The Met's 100th
A Tribute to American Music: Rodgers and Hart
Gene Kelly
A Salute to Broadway: The Shows
A Salute to Broadway: Showstoppers
In Performance at the White House
Gillespie, Getz, Corea
Rudolf Serkin
Itzhak Perlman; Ken Noda
The Juilliard String Quartet
Merle Haggard
A Salute to Broadway: Chorus Lines
Women of Country
A Tribute to American Music: Cole Porter
New York City Opera
Gladys Knight
Savion Glover---Stomp, Slide and Swing
Cabaret
CeCe Winans, Glorious Gospel
Mary Martin, John Raitt
A Tribute to American Music: George Gershwin
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Premiered: 1981, on PBS
Rating: TV-G
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Premise: An occasional series featuring concerts from the nation's capital that, over the years, has showcased performers as diverse as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Elvis Costello and Steve Martin. As Nancy Reagan noted in the first program, `With the participation of public television, the East Room becomes a concert hall for the entire nation.'

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