By Marilyn Lester***Just ahead of the official start of activities celebrating the 250th founding of The United States of America, Declaration: Songs of Democracy, Voices of Hope led the way with a rousing concert at […]
By Marilyn Lester***When cabaret legend Sidney Myer writes a reviewer (namely this one) that she absolutely MUST come and see this amazing new talent in his Don’t Tell Mama debut, attention must be paid. Here’s […]
By Marilyn Lester***While the jazz world at large is celebrating the centenaries of titans, trumpeter Miles Davis and tenor saxophonist, John Coltrane, plus the 100th anniversary of the equally legendary Savoy Ballroom (where Ella Fitzgerald […]
By Marilyn Lester***In the last Standard Time concert of the 2025-26 season, singer-pianist-historian and keeper of the American songbook flame, Michael Feinstein, presented a marvelous My Celebration: The Magical Music of Johnny Mathis and Henry […]
By Marilyn Lester***Kabarettist-composer, Artemisia LeFay is a specialist, a vessel of the history and music of Weimar-era Germany. In her latest exploration at Don’t Tell Mama, Alles Schwindel (“It’s All a Swindle”), she has gone […]
By Marilyn Lester***A scientific analysis of what makes a great cabaret show would have to include Goldie Dver‘s recent The Rhythm of Life: The Dorothy Fields Songbook at the Laurie Beechman Theatre, where it was […]
By Marilyn Lester***It was a 43rd birthday celebration, otherwise known as the end-of-season extravaganza, The New York Pops Birthday Gala, which capped off a series of consistently remarkable concerts led by Music Director and Conductor […]
By Marilyn Lester***Take a room full of A-list Broadway, cabaret and jazz stars, add an uber-dynamic performer to the mix, and watch what happens: an event so full of energy and power that a big […]
By Marilyn Lester***Like any long-awaited celebratory annual event, say Christmas, Hannukah or a birthday, so is the yearly April residency of Marilyn Maye at 54 Below awaited with high anticipation. In this edition, the Marvelous […]
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 […]
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