Are you ready to take a flight with me to Neverland courtesy of John Williams? On Sunday, December 4th Movies Broadway Singers and Beyond will take flight to Neverland. Some of my all-time favorites are on this show. Defending Your Life by Michael Gore was the music from Albert Brooks’ movie Defending Your Life. For people who have never seen ... Read More »
Category Archives: Movies
Sherry’s Cherries: Heart and Soul
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
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 – A Class Act
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 ... Read More »
The High and the Mighty: Sherry’s Cherries – Action, Adventure and Suspense
From the opening bars of music from the film, Jaws, you know the shark is nearby and there is very little time left. Many of my friends have husbands who love action and adventure films. Sometimes the guys would go to these movies as a group and the women would go to the “chick-flicks”. I love movie soundtracks. On our ... Read More »
Sherry’s Cherries: From Cherry Blossom to Neverland
When my daughter was a baby, I used to put melodic music on each night when I tucked her in. She absolutely loved bedtime. Today she plays three instruments and is in two orchestras. The music on my next Sherry’s Cherries pays tribute to “the melody.” Beautiful melodies can be calming, peaceful, or lift the spirit. As a child my ... Read More »
Sherry’s Cherries: Pure Imagination
My next show will showcase songs from movies. Not soundtracks, but songs like Moon River, Charade, A Summer Place and several dozen others that perhaps you haven’t heard. Pay special attention to Magic Mona from The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. It’s a wonderful song sung by an extraordinary singer, Phyllis Hyman. Truly one of my favorites. Another song I love, ... Read More »
Sherry’s Cherries – Movie Soundtracks
Movies, Anyone? I have been listening to this music in my art room all of my life. I’ve been collecting it since childhood. Sharing the music with you is one of my greatest joys. Thank you. This week I will be debuting a new show, Sherry’s Cherries, and the first show will feature some of my favorite movie soundtracks. These ... Read More »
Eddie and the Cruisers: Tender Years
When I was young and my daughter, Brandy, was three years old, I had a lovely young woman work for me who helped me care for Brandy and the work in the house. One day she came to work and said she saw this wonderful movie and that she had seen it several times. In the span of a few ... Read More »
Errol Flynn: One of a Kind
For those of you who are fans of Errol Flynn please check out our new Captain Blood movie review by Brandy Isadora on our sister website, Femmes Fatales and Fantasies Movie Poster Museum. I have been a fan of Errol’s since childhood. To me, he was the greatest swashbuckler of all time. When we opened our movie poster museum we collected ... Read More »