Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music

By Stephen Bourne and Stephen Bourne

In Elisabeth Welch: Soft Lights and Sweet Music, author Stephen Bourne celebrates the stage, screen, and radio career of this sophisticated African American actress and singer, who always defied categorization. Spanning almost a century of popular music, Welch did not fit the definition of jazz, torch, pop, or ballad singer but defined her art quite simply as "telling a story in song." Whenever she sang, she demonstrated that she had no peer in the art of interpreting songs by the likes of Cole Porter, No l Coward, Irving Berlin, and Jerome Kern. Her story is a fascinating one that brings readers insight about the life and times of this musical legend.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810854139
• ISBN13: 9780810854130
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"