By Marilyn Lester***Think of culinary sophistication: the ragout, kare raisu, feijoada, ratatouille, ciambotta—all dishes with multiple ingredients that combine to make one tasty, satisfying whole. And there you have Jason Graae’s A Graae Night For […]
By Marilyn Lester***By and large, composers in a songwriting team get the bigger share of glory: Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers and so on. But in American popular music, that’s only half […]
By Marilyn Lester***A man of many parts, a man of many accolades, and one who’s, by all accounts, a mensch—all palpable in An Evening with Brian Stokes Mitchell at 92NY. In two generous hours of performance, […]
By Marilyn Lester ***It can’t be easy to condense the music of 250 years+ into two hours, but that task was given the old college try by the New York Pops under the leadership of […]
By Marilyn Lester***How do you condense decades worth of music into 90 minutes and do it justice? Why, you call multiple Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall, of course. Helming the latest Lyrics & Lyricists production […]
By Marilyn Lester***Multi-cast cabaret shows have become quite a staple at 54 below. with interesting themes and plenty of talent—and as with any endeavor, no matter how excellent, some, like rich cream, rise to the […]
By Marilyn Lester***Imagine being a critic during the Renaissance, tasked with reviewing the work of Leonardo da Vinci, say. What do you write about the Mona Lisa: great, Leo! Or the Last Supper: great, Leo! […]
By Marilyn Lester***Who needs Congo Square? Celebrating Fat Tuesday in New York City was fat indeed with a bounty of singing, dance and lively music—all in a bright choreography of movement that kept the celebration […]
By Marilyn Lester***”And now for something completely different,” as the Monty Pythons would say. That something different for the New York Pops was a trip away from more standard Broadway fare and the Great American […]
By Marilyn Lester***The preeminent and towering Duke Ellington is arguably one of the greatest composers that America has ever produced, writing over 3,000 pieces of music in his lifetime, from 1915’s “Soda Fountain Rag,” to […]
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