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BROADWAY BEAT! VISITS "GRAND HOTEL" With Richie Ridge
Correspondents
Richie Ridge, Sidney Myer, Julie Halston, Russell Bouthiller, David Perozzi
Directed by Ed Lamance
Announcer Thos Shipley
Theme Song Written and Produced by Rob Larocco
Associate producer Preston Ridge
Executive Producer & Editor Bradshaw Smith
Special Thanks to
Judy Jacksina
Penny Landau
Steve Winton
Triton Gallery
Serino Coyne, Inc.
Ray Nocera
Applause Video productions (212) 517-1763
Carlos Lopez Theatre Collection
BROADWAY BEAT! VISITS "GRAND HOTEL" With Richie Ridge
Correspondents
Richie Ridge, Sidney Myer, Julie Halston, Russell Bouthiller, David Perozzi
Directed by Ed Lamance
Announcer Thos Shipley
Theme Song Written and Produced by Rob Larocco
Associate producer Preston Ridge
Executive Producer & Editor Bradshaw Smith
Special Thanks to
Judy Jacksina
Penny Landau
Steve Winton
Triton Gallery
Serino Coyne, Inc.
Ray Nocera
Applause Video productions (212) 517-1763
Carlos Lopez Theatre Collection









![Dana Suesse Bouquet (2022) Wordless Tribute
Nadine Dana Suesse (1909-1987)
Dana Suesse (pronounced Sweese) left her native Kansas City, Mo. to continue her studies in New York with the great pedagogue Alexander Siloti (at that time one of the four surviving pupils of Franz Liszt), and Rubin Goldmark, a former teacher of George Gershwin.
By the mid 1930s, Suesses symphonic works were performed by such conductors as Frederick Fennell, Alfred Wallenstein, Arthur Fiedler, Erno Rapée, Eugene Goossens, Nathaniel Shilkret, Frank Black, Alexander Smallens and, most importantly, Paul Whiteman. Dana Suesse was the only American composer other than George Gershwin to be invited to perform on the now legendary General Motors Symphony concert series of nationwide broadcasts.
Nicknamed The Girl Gershwin by The New Yorker and called an asset to the music business by Fortune Magazine, Miss Suesses serious works were overshadowed by her commercial song-writing successes, which included such standards as You Oughta Be In Pictures (1934) The Night Is Young and Youre So Beautiful (1936) and My Silent Love (1932). An association with the famous showman Billy Rose began in 1930 and lead to Dana Suesse creating the music for Casa Mañana (1936-1937) all of Roses famous Diamond Horseshoe Revues. Suesse also created the theme of the Aquacade of the Worlds Fair in 1939. She created music for other shows including Earl Carrolls Vanities, the 1934 Ziegfeld Follies and Radio City Music Hall. Miss Suesse also created the incidental theme music and theme for the Broadway play Seven Year Itch, produced by her first husband Courtney Burr.
After her success in writing popular songs (with lyricists Edward Heyman, E.Y. Harburg, Billy Rose and others) Suesse moved to Paris in 1947 to privately study composition with the legendary Nadia Boulanger. She returned to New York in 1950.
In 1974 Suesse and her husband (Charles Delinks) produced a symphony concert at Carnegie Hall devoted entirely to her music. A year later the prestigious Newport Music Festival (Rhode Island) presented four of her works in their concert series.
After her husbands death (1981) she took two apartments in the Gramercy Park Hotel and continued to write plays and songs for the theatre. After her final return to the city where she had spent her most creative years, a revival of interest in American music made her popular again for interviews and songwriters symposia. Since her death (1987) her music has enjoyed a revival that has included a Dover Publications music folio, symphony concerts, songwriter documentaries and CDs.
• 1995 July 15 “Blue Moonlight” performed by San Francisco Symphony,
• 1996 Artis Wodehouse produces a CD of original piano solo recordings: Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era, Vol. 2 (Pearl CD, UK)
• June 1996 “The Night Is Young: Concert Music of Dana Suesse” is released on CD by Robert Stern, Premier Records. It is the first ever release of Suesse symphonic music..
• March 1, 1997 Peter Mintun gives talk at Library of Congress for event The Gershwins and Their World.”
• 1999 “Yours For A Song” documentary directed by Terry Benes, broadcast on PBS
• September 24, 2003 BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by John McGlinn.
• March 18, 2005 the Albany Symphony (David Alan Miller, conductor) played Suesse’s Concerto In Three Rhythms (ranged by Grofé) with Kevin Cole, piano soloist.
• In 2008 Sara Davis Buechner recorded “Jazz Nocturne: The Collected Piano Music Of Dana Suesse.”
• June 3, 2009 The Hot Springs Music Festival Orchestra (conducted by Richard Rosenberg) performed Jazz Nocturne and Concerto In Three Rhythms (1931-Grofé arrangement) with Michael Gurt on piano.
• 2011 a CD was made of Suesse’s Concerto in E Minor for Two Pianos & Orchestra (1943) performed by Beatrice Long & Christina Long, duo-pianists, with the Eskisehir [Turkey] Greater Municipality Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Patrick Souillot.
• December 2013 At the insistence of Sara Davis Buechner, Dover Books published the first ever folio of Suesse sheet music, including solos and songs. Entitled Jazz Nocturne, it contained piano solos, long out of print, and some never before published.
• 2014 the Library Of Congress obtains all of Suesse’s personal papers for their Music Division.
• 2018 Suesse’s The Cocktail Suite (in four movements) was introduced for the first time in Japan by pianist Sachi Kobayashi
• May, 2022 the Library Of Congress accepts donation of all of Suesse’s musical manuscripts and orchestra parts. Dana Suesse Bouquet (2022) Wordless Tribute](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J8tuOUFKJ74/mqdefault.jpg)
