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    Feb 1, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Influences: Michael Feinstein, interpreter of the Great American Songbook

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    One of the premier interpreters of the Great American Songbook, Michael Feinstein will appear Saturday at Walt Disney Concert Hall, where he will perform a program of classic American songs and jazz numbers with a focus on film music by......
    2. Nov 23, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Connie Wald dies at 96; Hollywood wife known for low-key parties

    Connie Wald, an elegant matriarch of old Hollywood known for the low-key dinner parties she held for friends like Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn, died of natural causes Nov. 10 at her Beverly Hills home. She was 96.
    Connie Wald, an elegant matriarch of old Hollywood known for the low-key dinner parties she held for friends like Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn, died of natural causes Nov. 10 at her Beverly Hills home. She was 96. Her...

    Tags: Key Largo, Gene Kelly, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, The New York Times

    3. Jan 4, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. Rhapsody in Gershwin: BSO salutes George and Ira

    Another pops program devoted to George Gershwin? Why not? This weekend's Gershwin feast being presented on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's SuperPops series will hardly be the last.
    Another pops program devoted to George Gershwin? Why not? This weekend's Gershwin feast being presented on the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's SuperPops series will hardly be the last. Nearly 75 years after his death at the age of 39, the composer's...

    Tags: Music Industry, Culture, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Porgy and Bess (movie), Mamma Mia! (movie)

    4. Mar 9, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Comden & Green (and now add Beane)

    WHEN I was a young writer and wore a pencil behind my ear without a hint of irony, I swore a great many things. One was that I would never adapt anything. My ideas would spring anew from my dramatic imagination and the world would rejoice -- though never quite as loudly as I would. I assumed that the desire to adapt came to older writers in a moment of intellectual bankruptcy. When the well runs dry, let's look at ole Aristophanes.
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    WHEN I was a young writer and wore a pencil behind my ear without a hint of irony, I swore a great many things. One was that I would never adapt anything. My ideas would spring anew from my dramatic imagination and the world would rejoice -- though...

    Tags: Julie Newmar, Music Industry, Olivia Newton-John, Leonard Bernstein, Phyllis Newman

    5. Mar 31, 2011 |Story| Aberdeen News

  5. Aberdeen University/Civic Symphony presents 'Music at the Movies' Saturday night

    The Aberdeen University/Civic Symphony will conclude its 91st season with a Spring Pops Concert on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Johnson Fine Arts Center. The orchestra, under the direction of Robert Vodnoy, will present a program titled “Music at the...

    Tags: Champaign (Champaign, Illinois), Music Industry, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Gene Kelly, Carnegie Hall

    6. May 1, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Critic's Notebook: Who really owns Gershwin?

    "Who says that only Americans know how to play Gershwin?" asks Gramophone magazine this month as it hails a new Gershwin CD from the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the German orchestra that calls itself the world's oldest. "By this time possibly nobody," the British record guide answers its rhetorical self.
    "Who says that only Americans know how to play Gershwin?" asks Gramophone magazine this month as it hails a new Gershwin CD from the Leipzig Gewandhaus, the German orchestra that calls itself the world's oldest. "By this time possibly nobody," the British...

    Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), James Levine, Sarah Vaughan, Music Industry, Los Angeles

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