IRVING BERLIN'S SNOW BUSINESS

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	IRVING BERLIN'S SNOW BUSINESS

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bf1a7830-a642-4fda-b388-2f27f22503ec/2308AE89-433F-4FC0-9231-4A1D677992A1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/theater/30gree.html?ref=arts" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/theater/30gree.html?ref=arts" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/theater/30gree.html?ref=arts"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0">
Irving Berlin’s Snow Business
</NYT_HEADLINE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/theater/30gree.html?ref=arts"><P>IF you didn’t know better, had never been taught the proper technique, you might approach a piano with your hands flat and fingers splayed, as if instead of striking the keys you were going to dribble them. This may be why <A title="More articles about Irving Berlin." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/irving_berlin/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Irving Berlin</A>, who never studied music except with his ear, favored the ebonies over the ivories when he first started playing. His melodies found their home among the black keys, making excursions as necessary to the white, with the result that the tunes  all emerged in the absurd six-sharp thicket of F-sharp major or its corresponding D-sharp minor. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/theater/30gree.html?ref=arts"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/3EA4F572-B10E-481E-8D59-0EB1DC2134A4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/theater/30gree.html?ref=arts"><P class="caption">
Meredith Patterson and Jeffry Denman in the musical “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” at the Marquis Theater.  
<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/11/24/theater/20081124_WHITE_SLIDESHOW_index.html">More Photos »</A>
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Berlin at a transposing piano. 
<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/11/24/theater/20081124_WHITE_SLIDESHOW_index.html">More Photos &gt;</A>
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<A href="http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/theater/reviews/24whit.html?ref=theater">Theater Review | 'Irving Berlin's White Christmas': Just Like the Ones You Used to Know: Song, Dance and Fluffy White Endings</A> 
(November 24, 2008)
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