Come On and Hear: The Songs of Irving Berlin
No single songwriter better represents the Great American Songbook, in longevity, popularity and sheer output, than Irving Berlin.
No single songwriter better represents the Great American Songbook, in longevity, popularity and sheer output, than Irving Berlin.
One part sultry, one part girl next door, Carol J. Bufford was singing her first song—the show’s title number—as she entered 54 Below from the back of the packed house.
“I went to a marvelous party!...I couldn’t have liked it more!”
Joyce Breach, on stage in cabaret, offers a master class in performing a ballad.
Welcome a fine new performer to New York cabaret. She’s Mora Newman, who has returned to singing after decades in another field and another state.
As a little girl growing up in New Jersey, Anne Bobby would gaze eastward over the rooftops toward the bright lights of Manhattan, hoping one day to be among them as a singer on Broadway
There are very few singers who, year in and year out, sum up the best in cabaret.
“One of the most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented” of the pop songwriters in the first half of the 20th century (wrote composer Alec Wilder) was Indiana-born Howard Hoagland Carmichael – famed as “Hoagy.”
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