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Lyrics & Lyricists: Let’s Misbehave: The Sensational Songs of Cole Porter
Education has never been so entertaining as Let’s Misbehave: The Sensational Songs of Cole Porter.
Lyrics & Lyricists: I Have Confidence: Rodgers After Hammerstein
L&L presented a warm-hearted look at Rodgers’ work.
Harvey Granat: The Music of Harold Arlen
If Harold Arlen had written nothing else but the iconic “Over the Rainbow” (with E.Y. “Yip” Harburg), he’d still have been worthy of a place in the pantheon.
Lyrics & Lyricists: A Funny Thing Happened: Songs from the Road to Broadway
Teamwork made company numbers the standouts.
Jazz in July: Benny, Basie and Bucky
Charlap’s own quote about Benny and Basie applies to his own men: they swung with grace and intensity.
Jazz in July: Duke Ellington—Drop Me Off in Harlem
The magic name Ellington carried its perfume of elegance and sophistication to 92Y.
Lyrics & Lyricists: To Life! Celebrating 50 Years of Fiddler on the Roof
The finale to this season’s prestigious 92Y Lyrics & Lyricists was the superb To Life! Celebrating 50 Years of Fiddler on the Roof with Sheldon Harnick.
Johnny Mercer
May 2009 JOHNNY MERCER Prolific and terrific, warm or witty, Johnny Mercer was, to employ one of his song titles, just “Too Marvelous for Words.” That 1937 song had music by Richard Whiting, father of Mercer protegee and friend and another of our Hall of Fame-rs, singer Margaret Whiting, now President of the music education-focused […]
