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 ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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. ... Read More »
Those voices, and those songs. Well, I had the most wonderful time preparing these shows, listening to this wonderful music from these talented artists, composers and lyricists. There were so many beautiful songs that I made this show into Part I and Part II. Now is a good time to tell you, the listeners, about the DMCA rules. These rules ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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 ... Read More »
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