All about Bing
Professor of Music Ann Sears talks about the cultural impact of Bing Crosby in a Sun Chronicle article about the 60th anniversary of the release of “White Christmas.”
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The film, which Paramount Pictures premiered in 1954, is being screened at select theaters nationwide this holiday season.
Sears, whose research interests include American musical theater, is writing a book about Fred Astaire, who starred with Crosby in the films “Holiday Inn” and “Blue Skies.” She told the Sun Chronicle she was a big fan of Crosby, calling him “an amazing and complex man.”
“He was a great singer who also pioneered advances in music technology as well as being a savvy businessman,” she told the newspaper.
A live version of “White Christmas” will be staged at Boston’s Wang Theatre December 16–28.