With week one of the Songbook Summit behind them—celebrating the work of Irving Berlin—identical twins, Peter & Will Anderson shine the spotlight on three more iconic composers (one per week) in a celebration of the […]
By Michael Barbieri**** C’mon and hear! C’mon and hear the music of Irving Berlin. And Jerome Kern! And Hoagie Carmichael! And Jimmy Van Heusen! Peter and Will Anderson’s fantastic Songbook Summit series at Symphony Space […]
Anita Gillette, star of stage, screen, television and cabaret, recently completed two nights at Birdland with Me & Mr. B, a celebration of Irving Berlin. Gillette met Berlin in 1962 working on the Broadway musical, […]
By ROB LESTER**** “George & Ira who?” “Cole who?” “Irving who?” Ask many teens about writers of the Great American Songbook and you may get blank stares. But this Saturday afternoon, several teenagers who have […]
By ROB LESTER****Santa Claus brought an early gift in the form of Irving Berlin reincarnated as the ever-engaging entertainer Jon Peterson in the one-man musical show Irving Berlin: In Person. Written and directed by Berlin expert Chip Deffaa, it is full […]
By ROB LESTER****At last! See Liza Minnelli and Barbra Streisand on the same stage for $20. Or, as Sidney Myer oft says, “…Or reasonable facsimiles.” Facsimiles Saturday night are Rick Skye as Liza and Steven Brinberg brings the music, the mem’ries to light the corners of […]
Vocalist Dean Benner will be performing his fourth show at Don’t Tell Mama (343 West 46th Street) entitled Night Time Man on two Sundays: November 12 and 19 and showtime is 6:00 PM (doors open at 5:30 […]
Feinstein’s/54 Below, Broadway’s Supper Club, presents a 75th Anniversary concert of Irving Berlin’s This Is the Army on Veterans Day, November 11, at 9:30 PM. Performed for the first time since World War II, the presentation weaves songs from the musical with a behind-the-curtain story of […]
By ROB LESTER****Where there’s a Will, there’s a way: By way of clarifying, I mean walking/talking encyclopedia of music Will Friedwald. He literally wrote the book —several— including one soon-hot-off-the-press item on great albums by vocalists. This […]
By LARRY MYERS****Bryce Pinkham, Corbin Bleu, Megan Sikora, and Lora Lee Gayer are a delightful quartet welcome in your home and on your CD player. The newly released cast CD of Holiday Inn on Ghostlight Records is sheer joy […]
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