After graduating in 1947, he studied with Aaron Copeland, under whose direction several of Strouse’s compositions were performed at Tanglewood and with Arthur Berger, David Diamond and Nadia Boulanger.

In 1944 he enrolled at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, where he studied piano and composition. Strouse developed a love of music from his mother, who played the piano. (On an apolitical note, here’s a story about the cute dog playing Sandy.Charles Strouse was wan born in New York, NY on June 7, 1928. So what if she winds up living with a bald Donald Trump? She’s the only person who can get a Republican and a Democrat to sing a show tune in unison. Like Cinderella, Annie leaps across the divide-but she never forgets those she left behind. As a political allegory, the show underscores American class stratification by showing what happens when its extremes collide. America may have felt orphaned during the Hoover years, but Annie-a welfare queen if there ever was one-believes that the country’s best days are its tomorrows. On the other hand, Daddy Warbucks worries that his factories are closing, and has to ask an assistant, “What do Democrats eat?” He might as well be a funding a Romney/Ryan Super PAC.īut if “Annie” has a platform, it’s that America is fueled by optimism, something neither candidate would disagree with. Surely, Annie would give Obama’s stimulus package an approving “leapin’ lizards!” And won’t student-loan reform help her friends back at the orphanage? Grace Farrell, like Warren Buffett’s secretary, would certainly want a lower tax rate than her billionaire boss, not to mention equal pay as the butler, Mr.

With all the campaign talk about Scranton, Janesville, unemployment, and income inequality, it’s tempting to imagine what the characters would make of the current candidates. (Another song that didn’t make the movie: “New Deal for Christmas,” which name-drops Secretary of State Cordell Hull.) to sing “Tomorrow”? After commanding his Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes, to join in, the President declares: “I’ve decided that if my Administration’s going to be anything, it’s going to be optimistic about the future of this country!” Then, in a “Forrest Gump”-esque turn, Annie inadvertently inspires the New Deal. Remember that famous trip to the White House when Annie gets F.D.R.

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