Tim Di Pasqua

Here’s the review by Peter Haas of Tim’s 2014 show at Don’t Tell Mama:

Twenty years ago, at Don’t Tell Mama, I discovered Tim Di Pasqua. Singer, pianist and songwriter, his works were poetic and sensitive; they expressed nuances of love in tapestries of everyday, yet imaginative, images, and their lyrics fell, sometimes surprisingly, but always neatly and singably, into his melodies.  Moreover, in delivering his songs in his sweet tenor, he accompanied himself with superb piano work.

Good news: Tim Di Pasqua is still at it, writing and singing with added maturity and expertise. The evidence: his one-evening performance in April in the same club’s intimate back room. Playing to an appreciative full house, and accompanied warmly and expertly by Matt Scharfglass on bass, Di Pasqua—happy in a new marriage, with his husband, seated up front, described by Tim as “the jackhammer to my cement”—offered 15 of his songs, in a variety of moods. Among them: the poignant blues, “The Man I Want Doesn’t Want Me Any More”; “Jigsaw Puzzle,”  likening love to a puzzle “on a card table in the living room”; “If I Were to Leave,” from his new musical, The Apartment; and his classic “One Thing”:  “leafing through the pages of my mind,” as Di Pasqua expresses it, “the one thing in this world I’d love to do, is love the rest of the world as I love you.”

Acknowledging the audience’s enthusiastic applause, he said of his songwriting, “This is what I was meant to do, and I’ll do it till I die.”  The cabaret community—and the world at large—can give thanks.