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We're featuring a week of musical theater tunes from music researcher and longtime NYFOS subscriber Amy Asch. This post originally ran on June 30, 2017. June 30 [well, July 24th this time around] is close enough to July 4 that I’d like to conclude this week with...
We're featuring a week of musical theater tunes from music researcher and longtime NYFOS subscriber Amy Asch. This post originally ran on June 29, 2017. It was not consciously planned, but the songs I chose to start and end this week are both idealistic. By contrast,...
We're featuring a week of musical theater tunes from music researcher and longtime NYFOS subscriber Amy Asch. This post originally ran on June 28, 2017. “April in Paris” was recorded by all the big mid-century pop singers; secondhandsongs.com lists more than...
We're featuring a week of musical theater tunes from music researcher and longtime NYFOS subscriber Amy Asch. This post originally ran on June 27, 2017. In this April 1926 recording (made in London for English Columbia), George Gershwin plays and Fred Astaire sings...
We're featuring a week of musical theater tunes from music researcher and longtime NYFOS subscriber Amy Asch. This post originally ran on June 26, 2017. I first encountered Candide in a college production that my high school’s Thespian Club attended. ...
AND Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe: A Snake in the Grass Villain songs are fun to hear and to perform. I suspect they are fun to write too. These two—minor blips in a major career—have a delicious playfulness that I hope you’ll enjoy as much as I do. “Fiasco”...