Singers

When I was very young and watched the Academy Awards, I would always root for my favorite. When Elizabeth Taylor won in 1966 for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, my friends and I were cheering in my dorm room at NYU. I hoped Richard Burton would win also. I believed he needed it more than Elizabeth. I think she felt …

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, …

When I’m asked what my favorite song is, I can never answer. I have favorites in pop music, Broadway, and movies. My recently retired husband, Mark, who is now listening to all of the music he bought in our 55 years together, recently said that our radio station reminds him of Ed Sullivan. Ed Sullivan?  Then he said that Ed …

Please join us for a new tribute to lite rock. As a teenager, in the age of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, I was caught in a time warp. I was hooked on the music of Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hart and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, and others. But through the years, I did …

What do Josh Groban, Steve Lawrence, Sarah Vaughan, K.D. Lang and Engelbert Humperdinck all have in common? They are all wonderful singers with distinctive voices who created beautiful music.  Please join Movies Broadway Singers and Beyond as we pay tribute to these many wonderful performers. Also included will be Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Doris Day, Eydie Gorme and …

Cole Porter was a genius. He wrote the words and composed the music to some of the most beautiful songs of his era. On our next Sherry’s Cherries, you will hear some of my favorite songs from Cole Porter and other masters of their game. I have 38 versions of Cole Porter’s Night and Day. So many singers have sung …

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 …

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 …

During the month of August, Movies Broadway Singers and Beyond will pay tribute to many artists and musicians from the 60s and the 70s.  The music of this time was the music of The Beach Boys, The Beatles, and all the way through disco. It was also the time of women singers and writers like Joni Mitchell and Carole King. …