Beyond

I’m often asked what my favorite song is. Oh my! Would that be Broadway, movie soundtracks or pop music. I actually have hundreds of favorites.  Sherry’s Cherries new show will present some of these personal favs. When I was 17 and a student at NYU, I bought my first Carmen McRae album, Second to None. To this day I cherish …

Classical music is timeless. Many films have used classical music to enhance their storytelling. Whenever people remember 2001: A Space Odyssey, one immediately thinks of Richard Strauss’ Sprach Zarathustra. Producer of Gone with the Wind, David O. Selznick used two of Claude Debussy’s pieces, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn, and The Girl With the Flaxen Hair in the …

I was 19 years old and a student at New York University. One day while walking on 8th Street, I came across a record store (remember those?). That’s when I discovered Carmen McRae and I fell in love with her music. When I was older and CDs came out, I tried to buy a CD of Carmen’s album, Second to …

My generation was the one of the Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, Moody Blues, etc. I love that music and have a lot of it, but my heart belongs to the generation that came before me. I love the movie musicals from the 1930s and I also love the big band era. When I think of this music I …

Moonlight always feels right to me because I am a night person. When the sun goes down, I go up. The best part of my day is night. In my art room, my spirits soar while listening to this music. So, on the next Sherry’s Cherries, we are going a little “beyond” into the world of light rock of the …

Way back . . . when I was a child I fell in love with TV themes. Wagon Train was on every Wednesday night and I so looked forward to the show and the theme song. Robert Horton, who played Flint McCullough, was the lookout for the wagon train and I remember thinking “golly, he’s cute”, and I was only …

Witches, goblins and Jack-o’-lanterns bright!  On October 31st, Movies Broadway Singers and Beyond will pay tribute to Halloween! Monday, October 31st 1pm Eastern / 10am Pacific Time & 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific Time We will play some movie soundtracks that are definitely scary and we will play a lot of music from the extraordinary engineer, song writer, musician and …

Some people are gifted with long, happy lives.  Some are just gifted with long lives, the happiness being questionable.  Some people are given short lives, but with the kinds of gifts that are given to very few.  Such was the life of George Gershwin.  When I was 10 years old, I was asked to do a report on one of …

Music and art.  Art and music.  For me, the two are closely intertwined. Right now, as I write this, I am listening to the sound track to Defending Your Life. In the 1950’s and early 1960’s, divorce wasn’t as common as it is today. I grew up an only child of a divorced single mother. I would always hear whispers, …

What do Basia and Swing Out Sister have in common?  They both have made some of the most beautiful music in the world.  Basia is a singer, song writer and record producer.  Her Latin flavored jazz music was so successful that she was also able to cross over into the pop music world.  Basia’s vocal range spans three octaves and …