For over 60 years, the airwaves have been alive at this time of year with the sounds of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas – by far the most enduring and popular festive song ever written.

But researchers from the University of Sheffield have been preparing to celebrate Berlin’s legacy by exhuming one of his lesser-known works.

Rarely heard since its premiere, Miss Liberty was written in 1949, directly between his two biggest successes, Annie Get Your Gun (1946) and Call Me Madam (1950), and tells a fictionalised version of the events leading to the mounting of the Statue of Liberty on its plinth.

http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/miss-liberty-musical-1.530652

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