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Screenshot Image of Liz Roman Gallese from NYT Article

Liz Roman Gallese, daughter of the man who actually wrote the American standard, "Blue Moon," was interviewed for an article in The New York Times about her newly released documentation indicating that the song was composed by her father, Edward W. Roman, in 1931.

 

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Cosmophonia

Podcast, August 30, 2023

On the occasion of the rare astronomical event known as a Super Blue Moon, a podcast by music scholars ties the compositional and thematic simplicity of the song "Blue Moon" to its authorship by a teenager, Edward W. Roman.

Listen at 18:00-22:55, 27:35-28:50, and 31:40-32:25.

Co-hosts Gabriel Lubell and Meredith Michael study and work at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Link to Podcast

Financial Times

Column, March 1, 2021

In a "Life of a Song" entry, the United Kingdom's major financial daily focuses on Edward W. Roman's authorship of "Blue Moon" in its discussion of the beloved song's universal appeal.

Author Ian Gittins is a veteran music journalist and occasional contributor to the weekly column.

View the full article HERE.

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How Good It Is

Podcast, March 22, 2020

Episode 110 of "A music podcast hosted by Claude Call" includes a reference to Edward W. Roman in its exploration of the song's complicated evolution.

Listen at 19:01-19:32 using the audio below the graphic to the right.

Link to Transcript of Podcast

ARSC Journal

Notation, Spring 2019

This academic journal published by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections cites the new information about Ed Roman's involvement with the song in its quarterly column on recording-history research.

Columnist Tim Brooks (see Wikipedia Page) chairs ARSC's Copyright and Fair Use Committee and studies the recording industry. The annotation appears on page 174 (third PDF page.) VIEW PDF HERE

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The Daily Gazette

Article, November 23, 2018

This upstate New York newspaper reprinted The New York Times article under a locally angled headline, "Did a Troy teenager write the endearing standard 'Blue Moon'?" VIEW ARTICLE

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