MANHATTAN TOWER

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                    [Summary] => It was a rock and roll world while I was growing up but there were three easy listening albums that left me distinct impressions during the ’60s. One was Manhattan Tower by Gordon Jenkins. A homage to New York City, it was an original recorded musical which pioneered an idea later very effectively put use by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice for Jesus Christ Superstar. Record the musical first. Then do the stage version.
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                    [Title] => Emy Munji celebrates his first 70 years
                    [Summary] => I do not know if he ever recorded as Edward Miller but way back in the ’70s Emy Munji played the piano for several albums as Ian Hero. It was a time when original Filipino music and artists were just beginning to win acceptance among the colonial-minded masses but there was still no way for a record company to market a Filipino pianist performing foreign top 40 material.
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                    [Title] => Emy Munji celebrates his first 70 years
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                    [Title] => Hearken to the sounds of New York
                    [Summary] => That piece on Manhattan Tower resulted in two different reactions. One came from those inquiring where they can get a copy of the Gordon Jenkins album. I am sorry to say I do not know. I checked the web but the only albums of Gordon Jenkins songs available contain only selections from Manhattan Tower and not the complete musical. All I had until a few years ago was a tape that a friend of mine made from his own copy. Then I was able to get the LP from fellow Star columnist Mel Tobias who has since moved to Canada.
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                    [Title] => A tribute to Manhattan Towers
                    [Summary] => "To hear this music is to catch a glimpse of the urgent, elusive spirit dwelling within a great city... a city some say is enchanted, magical.  And merging with the music is a tender story touched by the wonder of a dream become real: of enchanting shadow become substance.  It is high tribute, too – worthy of the most exciting town on earth – a debt of gratitude and affection repaid in the golden coin of creative artistry. "


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Ray Conniff ends an era

By Baby A. Gil | October 21, 2002 - 12:00am

It was a rock and roll world while I was growing up but there were three easy listening albums that left me distinct impressions during the ’60s. One was Manhattan Tower by Gordon Jenkins. A homage to New York...

Entertainment

Emy Munji celebrates his first 70 years

By Baby A. Gil | October 16, 2001 - 12:00am

I do not know if he ever recorded as Edward Miller but way back in the ’70s Emy Munji played the piano for several albums as Ian Hero. It was a time when original Filipino music and artists were just beginning...

Entertainment

Emy Munji celebrates his first 70 years

By Baby A. Gil | October 15, 2001 - 12:00am

I do not know if he ever recorded as Edward Miller but way back in the ’70s Emy Munji played the piano for several albums as Ian Hero. It was a time when original Filipino music and artists were just beginning...

Entertainment

Hearken to the sounds of New York

By Baby A. Gil | September 24, 2001 - 12:00am

That piece on Manhattan Tower resulted in two different reactions. One came from those inquiring where they can get a copy of the Gordon Jenkins album. I am sorry to say I do not know. I checked the web but the only...

Entertainment

A tribute to Manhattan Towers

By Baby A. Gil | September 19, 2001 - 12:00am

"To hear this music is to catch a glimpse of the urgent, elusive spirit dwelling within a great city... a city some say is enchanted, magical. And merging with the music is a tender story touched by the wonder...

Entertainment