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Sherry’s Cherries: Two By Two

Sherry's Cherries Radio Show

I recently read a review of Richard Rodger’s prolific career and it indeed it was prolific. Composer Rodgers created music with Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammerstein and all alone, with his last musical, No Strings. The review said that Rodgers was a genius, which he was and that Lorenz Hart, or Larry as I think of him, was a talented amateur. ... Read More »

Sherry’s Cherries: Heart and Soul

Sherry's Cherries Radio Show

My fondness for Lorenz Hart goes back a long way. He’s one of the first people I’d hug when I cross over. (The other two are Judy Garland and Stephen Sondheim.) Our next Sherry’s Cherries pays tribute to some of the songs that I could not live without. You’ll hear voices like Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Carly Simon, Ella Fitzgerald, ... Read More »

Sherry’s Cherries – My Reverie

The Panda

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 ... Read More »

Sherry’s Cherries – Salute to Broadway Songs: I Have Dreamed

NY Skyline 1999

“Only music may span that space between the finite and the infinite…”  – Edgar Cayce.   On our next Sherry’s Cherries, Movies Broadway Singers and Beyond will pay tribute to Broadway and some of the most beautiful music from the greatest composers and lyricists. For all you soundtrack people – you might like this one. Most of these songs originated on ... Read More »

Sherry’s Cherries: Where or When

Where or When

I have always said that one of the first people I hug when I cross over will be Lorenz Hart. Larry had so much talent. He was so gifted, but all he saw were his flaws. He left the world some of the most beautiful music, which I will play for you on this show. When Larry died at a ... Read More »

Stephen Sondheim: There are Giants in the Sky… And Here on Earth

Stephen Sondheim

There are Giants in the Sky and here on earth.  Stephen Sondheim is one of them.  Stephen is embarrassed by all the accolades and awards that have been presented to him. Consider that he has received the Academy Award, eight Tony Awards, including a special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theater, eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, several Laurence ... Read More »

The Sweetest Sounds: Tribute to Rodgers & Hammerstein

Rodgers and Hammerstein

The eyes had it. Or at least in one of the later photographs of Richard Rodgers, you could see the sadness . . . the losses. Rodgers and Hammerstein changed the face of Broadway.  Their successes were phenomenal and although they wrote in the 1940s and 1950s, their work is still performed today on Broadway and in Road Shows around ... Read More »

Rodgers and Hart: Where or When

Rodgers and Hart

It seems we stood and talked like this before We looked at each other in the same way then But I can’t remember where or when The clothes you’re wearing are the clothes you wore The smile you are smiling you were smiling then But I can’t remember where or when I once blogged that one of the people I ... Read More »

Cole Porter: Night and Day He Began the Beguine

Cole Porter

With a million neon rainbows burning below me, And a million blazing taxis raising a roar, Here I sit, above the town, In my pet pailleted gown, Down in the depths On the ninetieth floor. While the crowds in all the nightclubs punish the parquet, And the bars are packed with couples calling for more, I’m deserted and depressed In ... Read More »

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