by Amy Burton | Jul 17, 2017 | Song of the Day
As many of you know, I’m a big Francophile. So, it may not surprise you that three of the five songs I’ve chosen to feature here are from, or pay homage to, France. And what better time is there to celebrate than the week of her birthday (July 14), otherwise known...
by Steven Blier | Jul 14, 2017 | Song of the Day
When I was planning the FSH gala with Amanda Bottoms and Dimitri Katotakis, they both mentioned that they’d recently sung “Too Many Mornings” from Sondheim’s Follies. For some reason, I initially resisted. Too hackneyed? off-topic? I don’t know. About two weeks later...
by Steven Blier | Jul 13, 2017 | Song of the Day
I know of two perfect songs: Fauré’s “En sourdine,” and Hoagy Carmichael’s “Skylark.” Paul Verlaine was the poet for the first of them, and Johnny Mercer the lyricist for the second. Please don’t ask me to explain what makes them perfect, or even why I think they...
by Steven Blier | Jul 12, 2017 | Song of the Day
Art, like medical research, thrives on creative, talented people. But it also thrives on open-hearted patrons, some of whom can be as visionary (in their own way) as their beneficiaries. For this week’s FSH Dystrophy fundraiser, I grabbed a recent song by Stephen...
by Steven Blier | Jul 11, 2017 | Song of the Day
To close the benefit program this week I grabbed a song Amanda Bottoms offered: “Sing Happy,” from the 1965 Flora the Red Menace. The musical is famous for a few things: it marked the first collaboration of composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, who would soon go...
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