Reserve the brass band now! We'll want one next time Terese Genecco leaves her San Francisco home and returns to perform in a New York club. Those who saw her end-of-April three-night gig at the Metropolitan Room can tell you why. Leaving her customary eight-piece band behind, she took to the stage backed with just her talented musical director, Barry Lloyd, to celebrate the music of Arthur Schwartz. Bringing power, poise, and expressive interpretations to Schwartz's popular and film songs, she combined fine musicianship and story telling - thanks to lyrics from the likes of Howard Dietz, Lorenz Hart, Dorothy Fields and Frank Loesser - to provide an evening of solid, warm-hearted, superbly sung numbers. No better proof was needed than the room's constant glow from patrons' smiles of pleasure throughout her set. To quote the title of a Schwartz-Dietz song: "That's entertainment!"

Terese presents Alone Together at San Francisco's Enmpire Plush ROom 5/31-6/3; 6/6-6/9.

Peter Haas
Cabaret Scenes
April 27, 2007
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