Yip relented.īut writing lyrics for it was tough, considering that Arlen began with a dramatic octave leap, hard to lyricize. Ira suggested Arlen abandon his grandiose piano accompaniment to play it instead like a pop song, and that that made all the difference. He asked Yip to reconsider, so Yip asked Ira Gershwin for advice. It isn’t Nelson Eddy!’” Arlen, although crest-fallen, labored all week to write a new tune, but nothing could match the power and poignancy of the original. “I said, ‘My God, Harold, this is a 12 year old girl wanting to be somewhere over the rainbow. Yip, however, was less than pleased when he heard it, as he recalled in an interview late in his life. He handed Arlen a title: “I Want to get on the Other Side of the Rainbow.”Īrlen took that title and ran with it, composing the famous melody for the song. As a symbol for all the colors unseen to Dorothy in her black & white world, he conceived the rainbow, although the word ‘rainbow’ is never used once in L. “Yip” Harburg gave his collaborator, the composer Harold Arlen, a dummy title, a fragment of lyric to use to hang a melody on, a direction, a mood. Knowing Dorothy would sing a ballad yearning for escape from the monochrome farmland of her Kansas home in the film’s opening sequence, the lyricist E.Y. He is the man who brought the rainbow to The Wizard of Oz. Yet a rainbow was never part of the screenplay for the famous 1939 movie. With music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Yip Harburg, it’s become one of the most beloved songs in the history of American popular music. Estrada currently lives and works in Los Angeles.“Somewhere Over The Rainbow,” like so many classic songs, was born in Los Angeles. In 2020, her solo show in Las Vegas was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Commendation for the Arts from the United States Congress. Estrada made her first short film in 2017 entitled, The Dream, which was selected in Best of Shorts at the Carmel International Film Festival. In 2014 she won Art Slant’s Juried Competition, was a 2015 finalist for the Emerging Focus Competition, and is the 2017 winner of the ND Awards Fine Art Category. Her work is part of private and corporate collections internationally. Estrada has exhibited in galleries in the United States, Europe, and Asia. A multifarious artist, Estrada’s creative expression encompasses traditional photography, mixed media, sculpture, installation, and film.
Using photography as her main visual medium, the sound of the camera's click offers her the perfect confluence between the real and the ethereal. A seeker of the spiritual, Estrada believes that every piece of art created is a self-portrait, a physical expression of that inner nameless world our soul inhabits.
Estrada’s broad scope of work is a reflection of memories that she has shaped into her reality. She attended Santa Monica College and received her Certificate of Photography in 2009. Her childhood was heavily influenced by her training in classical piano and violin, which continues to inspire her aesthetic today. Multi-media artist Javiera Estrada was born in Mexico in 1981 and moved to the United States in 1989.
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