STAMFORD "Songbook Cabaret: You Made Me Love You," Great American Songbook 100-year celebration led by Jennifer Sheehan.
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Another great entry in Disney's songbook of memorable villain tunes.
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Maybe something from the Great American Songbook this time around?
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Blues & Ballads (A Folksinger's Songbook: Volumes I & II) — Luther Dickinson
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Also, Trump appears to be singing from the same songbook.
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And if the American Songbook is everything, is it anything?
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The ultimate writer of the American songbook is Stephen Sondheim.
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And, for a brief moment, part of its songbook, too.
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"When one thinks of the American Songbook, one thinks immediately first of Lorne Michaels, because his contributions to the American Songbook have been just awful," Martin said, invoking an uproar of laughter from the audience.
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You're doing songs from Bob Dylan's songbook for this residency, right?
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Kendrick Lamar)"The Great American Songbook" by Nancy Wilson (full album)
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The Tony-winning Foster is currently part of the American Songbook roster.
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Critic's Notebook What the heck is the American Songbook at this point?
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Hey, maybe that American Songbook concept is not so scattered after all.
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Coats has also shown a tendency to veer from the Trump songbook.
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Since the 1980s, various musicians have dipped into Ono's big songbook, too.
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They adored classic movies and knew all the lyrics to the American songbook.
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Lyrics in the songbook joke about the extermination of Jews in gas chambers.
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At the home, the organist opened the dog-eared pages of a songbook.
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At the home, the organist opened the dog-eared pages of a songbook.
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WANTAGH "Tennessee Walt's The Other Great American Songbook," country music concert and lecture.
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WANTAGH "Tennessee Walt's the Other Great American Songbook," country music concert and lecture.
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This Trump budget comes from a songbook written for the top one percent.
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The songbook rolls deep, the nightly MC is a dead ringer for Det.
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But who's coming to see "Motown" for anything other than the fabulous songbook?
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Her repertoire consists mostly of great American songbook standards and bossa nova tunes.
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The images were first presented in real time on Tumblr, later printed on newsprint in a self-published zine format, and eventually turned into the more formal Songbook publication (accompanied by lyrics, in reference to the "Great American Songbook" tradition).
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This was her songbook in Rome when she met Mr Salvini, another reformed Leaver.
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"Jim Altamore Sings Sinatra and Standards," popular standards from the Great American Songbook. Feb.
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NETCONG Jews and the American Songbook, featuring the New York Times critic Jody Rosen.
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My father would invariably request one of his favorites from the Great American Songbook.
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But he's also turning out American Songbook-style tunes in a folk-rock age.
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You must have something in the American Songbook that you find valuable, even uplifting.
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Mark Sebastian, songwriter I recently found the songbook I wrote it in, in pencil.
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And then she released three albums of songbook standards with the Nelson Riddle orchestra.
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Scene City 36 Photos View Slide Show ' The American Songbook Gala was held Feb.
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In memory of the late jazz singer Nancy Wilson, the entire "Great American Songbook" album.
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BOHEMIA "Jim Altamore Sings Sinatra and Standards," popular standards from the Great American Songbook. Feb.
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In other words: The Great American Songbook is alive and well and living on YouTube.
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ELMONT "Tennessee Walt: The Other Great American Songbook," concert and lecture of classic country music.
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Musicians gathered on street corners to play through his voluminous songbook, drawing crowds of strangers.
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A devotee of the American songbook, Ms. Carroll seemingly knew every popular standard ever written.
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The Orchestra will present a brand new Songbook series at the Rose Theater on Oct.
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For four years, he served as the artistic director of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series.
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And Gio Russonello listened through the first complete solo covers of the complete Thelonious Monk songbook.
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In "Swingin' With the Season," he will sing Christmas classics and standards from the American Songbook.
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If you want to play the piano, you sit at the bench and open your songbook.
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And what, exactly, was he thinking in slighting Bettye LaVette's dive into the Bob Dylan songbook?
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"Unapologetically Black: The African-American Songbook Remixed," which comes to the Apollo Theater on Saturday, Feb.
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I think in one of the fake American Songbook songs Titus sings, there is an s-word.
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"I have no memory of it," Bergen said at the American Songbook Gala in New York City.
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Instead, Thile sees the great possibility of "Prairie Home" as presenting a vital and evolving American songbook.
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This album flips the script by breaking out an obscure songbook rather than reimagining a famous one.
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The music will also reach into Ms. Myers's songbook, and the black spirituals of the slavery era.
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The program will focus on its composer, Harold Arlen, and his many contributions to the American songbook.
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He led groups large and small, and penned enough memorable tunes to fill more than one songbook.
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The songbook also came with a with a notebook and two pencils - precious for children who had nothing.
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Even after he accepted a teaching position at Princeton, he remained a lifelong connoisseur of the American songbook.
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What the Nobel committee said of Dylan, that he's bringing poeticism to the American songbook, is absolutely true.
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Our particular favorite ... Jeffrey Baron, via YouTube, whose verse sounds like it's from Bob Dylan's songbook or something.
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Maslon, now the artistic director and writer of "Yes I Can: The Sammy Davis Jr. Songbook," running Feb.
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Bing Crosby, who died in 1977, is considered a titan of the American songbook and a national treasure.
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Bob Dylan has spent the last few years copying out Frank Sinatra's songbook in his own intricate handwriting.
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Prior to Dylan's arrival on the scene, pop music lyrics were very much influenced by the Great American Songbook.
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And with each new release, a couple more would get added to Petty's version of the Great American Songbook.
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Jesus, that's to the tune of the alphabet song, and Twinkle Twinkle... what a horrifying contribution to the songbook.
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I've just been in conversation with him and he wants to know if you would design Clash: Second Songbook.
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HELLER Let's wrap up on a related note: Suggest the songbook you'd love to see used for a musical.
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Today her songbook encompasses Chilean folk, aqueous original compositions, Afro-Cuban classics and modern jazz tunes by her contemporaries.
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I folded my songbook up and headed out for some fresh air before the show, which was sold-out.
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Having recently paid homage to one of her many famous collaborators with "The Streisand Songbook," Ann Hampton Callaway will celebrate another familiar voice with the world premiere of "The Linda Ronstadt Songbook," digging into an eclectic catalog that should provide an ideal showcase for the earthiness and polish of Ms. Callaway's own singing.
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She recorded ten albums of jazzy standards from the American Songbook before being signed by Jerry Wexler to Atlantic Records.
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Young audiences are using PMJ, Puddles, and their peers to find their way back to the original Great American Songbook.
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He resigned over having been in a fraternity that previously published a songbook with lyrics making light of the Holocaust.
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Or listen to Jessica Molaskey and John Pizzarelli on their "Radio Deluxe" show, talking about food in the American songbook.
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But while Willie's musical insight and compassionate interpretation of the Great American Songbook are immeasurably valuable, they are not endless.
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Unfortunately, Selina is forced to spend some quality time with the McGraw songbook this episode, but more on that later.
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The dancing began with the "Modern American Songbook," a judicious sampler of dancers and styles showcasing the company's varied skills.
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He wanted to pay dutiful tribute, while also using the Monk songbook to expand his own approach to the guitar.
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Her voice, at once husky and effervescent, accompanies some of the most beloved and popular songs in the samba songbook.
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The show weaves songs from Bob Dylan's songbook with Mr. McPherson's script to create a haunting tale of desperate lives.
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The jukebox musical based on the Jimmy Buffett songbook will close July 1, after 29 previews and 124 regular performances.
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As I huddled near the songbook, I felt the singular anxiety of being in a foreign bar, alone and purposeless.
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Since then he's been far less of an M.C. than a crooner, focusing on elegant interpretations of the American songbook.
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Bruce Springsteen's songbook did not help "Blinded by the Light" (Warner Bros.), which went down in flames over the weekend.
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Still, this is Great American Songbook territory, and he does a lot of George Gershwin and Porter and Harold Arlen.
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And for the cover of "The Bernstein Songbook," he photographed Bernstein at the piano in a state of near rapture.
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Bruce Springsteen's songbook did not help "Blinded by the Light" (Warner Bros.), which went down in flames over the weekend.
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He had a reverence for the music that is such an important part of American pop and the [Great] American Songbook.
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First, there's "Mine," a loungey Cole Porter-ish affair, where the band try to create their own Great American Songbook entry.
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For more than a decade, Mr. Postilio lived by the Great American Songbook, singing on cruise ships and with symphony orchestras.
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We need an ear that teases that understanding out of the old songbook, that builds human connections through space and time.
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But to fans of jazz and "The Great American Songbook" living in Las Vegas, he is also known as a singer.
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So if she rerecords her old songbook with Republic Records, she will own the copyright to all of the new recordings.
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Over the past few years, small groups have occasionally tackled Monk's complete songbook, the most referenced body of work in jazz.
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Some of the proceeds of the sale will benefit the Great American Songbook Foundation which aims to preserve America's musical legacy.
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His agreeably slight new release, "Summertime," is a songbook album, a stroll through some of George and Ira Gershwin's best-loved songs.
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Foster shared the happy news to the audience at her Lincoln Center's American Songbook performance at Alice Tully Hall on Friday night.
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" That process of reinvention and reinterpretation actually defined the early 20th-century era of music-making known as "the Great American Songbook.
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And he was far from the only one singing from that songbook -- which Trump promptly ripped up in his interview with Holt.
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It wasn't so long ago that he was the new kid on the block, determined to celebrate and nurture the American Songbook.
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Reporters got their hands on the secretive fraternity's songbook, which featured lyrics celebrating the Holocaust and calling for the murder of Jews.
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For example: He recorded his third American songbook album, a three-disk set covering the likes of Irving Berlin and Frank Sinatra.
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In their own way, the shows explored not so much what makes the songbook — is that another way to say the canon?
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But I agree that the core of the jukebox musical challenge is: How does Broadway deal with the rock-era American Songbook?
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Last year, the group released a disc interrogating the songbook of Miles Davis, and at Jazz Standard, it focused on those arrangements.
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" 22017 - Joins forces with Barry Manilow for the first time since the 1970s to record "Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook.
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Also, Republicans are singing from the same songbook on this effort; during the health-care debates, they couldn't even locate the tune.
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Nicole Kidman, left, smooches her husband Keith Urban at the Lincoln Center's American Songbook Gala at Alice Tully Hall in New York City.
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Thursday's program, "Unforgettable: The Nat King Cole Songbook," will feature Cole's brother Freddy Cole and, on tenor saxophone, his longtime associate Houston Person.
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Just as bands are reimagining the music of the Grateful Dead, the Dead themselves turned to traditional music to create their own songbook.
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And her naturally bubbly personality and comic flair should make her concerts more than just a string of American songbook standards expertly sung.
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He immediately envisioned filling the nooks and crannies of the building with musicians on guitar singing from the patriarchal songbook in a loop.
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She and her husband (who is now appearing on Broadway in "Pretty Woman") often performed together, creating two-handers from the American songbook.
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In 1944, W.C. Handy, sometimes called the father of the blues, edited a songbook, "Unsung Americans Sung," that included a song about her.
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Kelly Clarkson, the covers queen, added some new renditions to her vast songbook this week with her latest appearance on The Tonight Show.
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In playing with Thompson, they were learning to play with one another, and in reading his human songbook they established their own repertoire.
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Mr. Lowe brought the American songbook to generations of listeners on radio stations including WCBS, WNBC and, for more than two decades, WNEW.
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Luke Combs is taking a page out of Luke Bryan's songbook and living life to the fullest by huntin', fishin' and lovin' every day.
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In its review of "Egypt Station", Mr McCartney's latest record, Rolling Stone marvelled at his capacity to keep "adding new gems to his songbook".
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From a jazz historical perspective, Mr. Weinstein is an heir of Stephane Grappelli and Joe Venuti with a sensibility rooted in the American songbook.
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Perhaps the biggest hit of the era, "The Girl from Ipanema" has become an inescapable part of the American songbook—jazz, pop, or otherwise.
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But they also had a song book—and this is true story—and Tom Watson would make the employees sing from Tom Watson's songbook.
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Next caller, Gloria in Woodstock, N.Y. Sing out, Gloria, what song would you like to see eradicated from the so-called Great American Songbook?
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The entertainer, who could very well be the last of a dying breed, has devoted himself to the Great American Songbook since the 254s.
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This weekend, Jazz at Lincoln Center presents a celebration of the pianist's influential songbook with a cast of musicians from across nations and generations.
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Smith is the movie's ostensible subject, along with Thomas A. Dorsey, a gospel founding father and composer of a major portion of its songbook.
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As part of its continuing American Songbook series, Lincoln Center is giving established artists a chance to perform their material in an intimate setting.
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Embellished by postmodern riffs characteristic of the author's style, this pop-punk confection of a novel borrows heavily from the teen-age-dropout songbook.
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Mr. Mestel, whose first job was working for Mr. Blackwell at Island, declined to offer any specifics about his plans for the Marley songbook.
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We'll always have the Misfits' songbook, and The Cramps, Alice Cooper, The Damned, and other artists have gifted their goth sensibilities to our Halloween playlists.
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"In honor of one of the great jazz singers of all time, who died this year, a classic album: The Great American Songbook," he wrote.
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Yagoda's tome suggests the Great American Songbook era was defined by two features: Great melodies—songs propelled more by musicians than machines—and great singers.
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Some orchestras devoted to pops, including the New York Pops and Cincinnati Pops, continue to mix light classics with American songbook standards and film music.
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One of the most common moves in songbook-style musicals, and in American covers in general, is to interpret something "white" in a "black" way.
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Most often, she does it by combing through the expurgated pages of the Great American Songbook, singing tunes of bewildering political incorrectness, like this one.
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Regrettably, many far more egregious songs did enter the so-called Great American Songbook where, remarkably, they continued to be not merely defended but celebrated.
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The "Little Red Songbook" of workers' songs was around the house too (my father) and the Wobbly songs taught me the meters of popular hymns.
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James has draped his purling baritone across jazz standards, the Billie Holiday songbook, his own languorous funk tunes and now the compositions of Bill Withers.
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Mr. Fordin "relentlessly sought the performers who interpreted the great American songbook best," Cynthia Daniels, his engineer from 1985 until his death, said by email.
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The cover of an American minstrel show songbook, which depicts a performer dancing in costume and blackface makeup, published by Belmont Music Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1938.
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In a surprising twist, the Social Democrats (SPO) said they had expelled a member for having illustrated the same songbook after prosecutors placed him under investigation.
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At the same time, Jobim's music wasn't limited to collaborations, and his solo catalog remains an essential part of any discussion of the bossa nova songbook.
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And when it comes to emotions, Sondheim — more than any other composer from the Broadway songbook — is the one I trust to tell me the truth.
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Or perhaps you sing along to "Fairytale of New York," a Christmas duet by The Pogues that has become part of the latter-day holiday songbook.
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What started in 2007 as three choruses has blossomed into hundreds of singers ringing the District, belting out music from Broadway and the Great American Songbook.
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But Life Cycles have something different in mind: Rather than original material, they focus on the songbook of the vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, who died in 2016.
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For rock stars of a certain age, the eventual turn to the Great American Songbook can feel something like an obligation, or a graceful bow goodbye.
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Empty seats outnumbered occupied ones, and the stadium buzz was more of a murmur as the Red Bulls' supporters section valiantly rolled through its usual songbook.
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This show is dedicated to the romantic songbook of Burt Bacharach; Marcy Harriell will handle vocals, with Corcoran Holt on bass and Vinnie Sperrazza on drums.
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Delightful, delicious and potentially delovely, this concert pairs the American crooner and a 13003-piece orchestra with one of the great practitioners of the American songbook.
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And lest you think this is just another American songbook cash-grab, she tosses in a lounge version of a Metallica song, in springy waltz time.
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On his unerringly tasteful recent album "Notes From New York," Mr. Charlap, a pianist, leads his longtime trio in a springtime stroll through the American songbook.
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The play is, or is supposed to be, a love story, although it takes its title from an American Songbook classic that doesn't end so sweetly.
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Grace sings, badly, from the Sondheim songbook on "Will & Grace," and Penny's absentee father on "Happy Endings" charms her with a story about a Sondheim encounter.
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But you'll want to swat away any comparisons to "Stardust," the ageless, radiant album he released in 1978, before songbook crossover had become such a wan cliché.
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He remembers The Ledge once showing him a songbook that had "over 500 pages of songs," which The Ledge later burned fearing that someone would steal them.
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With its use of tropes like the "Nerd's First Acid Trip" and "Brazen Theater Girl," Speech & Debate is singing every song from the high school movie songbook.
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She is thought to have inspired Simon and Garfunkel's "Kathy's Song" and also appears alongside Simon on the cover of his solo album, "The Paul Simon Songbook."
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Oscar winner Nicole Kidman and Grammy winner Keith Urban, both 50, had an evening out in New York City on Tuesday to celebrate the American Songbook Gala.
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But then, is any song recital as bleak as Schubert's "Winterreise," a cycle that Mr. Goerne has compared to the "Hollywood Songbook" as a study in alienation?
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Nicanor Parra's first published book of poems was "Cancionero Sin Nombre" (Songbook Without a Name), released in 1937 while he was a student in the capital Santiago.
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"Fraternities have nothing to do with the FPÖ," said the party's leader Heinz-Christian Strache, who is also Austria's vice-chancellor, the day after the songbook surfaced.
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But a statement on its website said it condemned the Nazi-glorifying lyrics in its songbook as "disgusting" and rejected anti-Semitism or any other religious discrimination.
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But one impressive project that bears accounting is Kimbrough's new album, a six-disc collection on which he and his band cover every piece in Monk's songbook.
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There's maybe no one who better embodies the concept of the American songbook than Rhiannon Giddens, whose voice carries the traditions of blues, folk, Americana and soul.
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Exactly. I thought it would be a great chance to work out this idea I had of doing a "songbook series" of albums, the way Ella Fitzgerald did.
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The new disc is a collection of 13 jazzy gems from the Great American songbook, featuring titles made famous by Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and Bobby Darin.
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It's attached to a little vintage store and I flip through their collection of used records, coming across a vinyl of Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook.
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Over the past few years he has performed here and there with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, which plays big-band arrangements of tunes from the classic jazz songbook.
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She sang about sex and food and savages and the Devil and Hell and really exciting things you don't hear on 'Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook.
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Wesla Whitfield, a classically trained vocalist whose fresh interpretations of the Great American Songbook were anything but standard, died on Friday at her home in St. Helena, Calif.
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Their songbook includes many items from Reinhardt's repertoire, as well as originals by the group's own band members inspired by the broader field of early 20th-century jazz.
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And then, nothing to do with kohlrabi and venison, you could watch and listen to some highlights from Jackie Hoffman's performance in Lincoln Center's "American Songbook" series. Diverting!
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Only a handful of performers still make a career out of interpreting the Great American Songbook on a small stage in a smoking jacket or a sequined dress.
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Its last remaining program featuring what it calls "playlist music" will be The Saturday Show, the American-songbook successor to Mr. Schwartz's program, which plays on Saturday nights.
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And the saxophonist Maceo Parker reprised a handful of tunes from the James Brown songbook, playing whiplash funk with an eight-piece group that was locked like lattice.
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The alto saxophonist John Zorn recently completed a landmark week at the Village Vanguard, performing works from his magnum opus, the Masada songbook, with a sparkplug new quartet.
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At Dizzy's she will dip into Billie Holiday's songbook, performing with the guitarist Jeff McLaughlin, the pianist Sharp Radway, the bassist Hilliard Greene and the drummer Darrell Green.
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Obama also added a classic album, "The Great American Songbook," to honor the late artist Nancy Wilson, whom he called "one of the great jazz singers of all time."
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On Thursday, Saturday Night Live's longtime leader watched his friends and colleagues perform in his honor, focusing on music as well as comedy at Lincoln Center's American Songbook Gala.
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"Someone to Watch Over Me" This Gershwin composition is a mainstay of the Great American Songbook, but the English soulstress reclaimed it for Britain with this gorgeous rendition. 4.
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Tillet refers to "Stand by Me" as representative of the "African-American songbook," and, of course, it was first released and made famous by Ben E. King in 1961.
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The main focus was on the "Hollywood Songbook" of Hanns Eisler, a student of Schoenberg's who came to collaborate closely with Brecht when they were expatriates in wartime Hollywood.
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Her collaborations with Tony Bennett crossed pop standards and the great American songbook off her list, but she's also dabbled in country, hip-hop, and songs verging on rock.
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Clearly the American Songbook (many people qualify it as "Great") consisted of songs from Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, blessedly untouched by rock 'n' roll or singer-songwriter confessionals.
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He released moving versions of old standards, composed his own affecting additions to the contemporary-jazz songbook, and led fusion projects with R&B musicians and Afro-Cuban luminaries.
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On Soccer LIVERPOOL, England — Chelsea's fans had been working their way through the champion-in-waiting's songbook for about half an hour, ever since the first goal went in.
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Even though his own records were closer to Elvis than Ella, Mr. Lowe remained devoted to the American songbook long after many radio stations abandoned it for other formats.
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Backed by a superb trio — Carl Schroeder on piano, Walter Booker on bass, Jimmy Cobb on drums — she bends songbook standards to her will, with glacial pathos or quicksilver poise.
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Ms. McGovern, who sang a pristine, unamplified rendition of "Over the Rainbow," is a supreme exemplar of the American songbook tradition celebrated this year over four consecutive evenings through Friday.
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There is still plenty of material to draw on — "Love" presents only about a tenth of the Beatles' songbook, and by allowing mash-ups, Apple has made endless variation possible.
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That respect for the ineffable has been translated into the most imaginative and inspired use to date of a popular composer's songbook in this blighted era of the jukebox musical.
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She starred in The Pirates of Penzance on Broadway, collaborated with Nelson Riddle on an interpretation of the Great American Songbook, recorded an album of Mexican folk songs, and more.
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HELLER There's a direct line from that show to "Head Over Heels," which is one of the more adventurous recent approaches to using a pop songbook, anachronistically and self-consciously.
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But as Bruce and the cast sing "We Are Alive," we realize that, though he is dead, this great American will live on, and his songbook will tell his story.
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CARAMANICA Captured during a recent performance in the South Bronx, "Live at Pregones" spins through Los Pleneros de la 21's songbook, which is now 35 years in the making.
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She sings with a deep tone and the occasional chiming vibrato, and draws most of her tunes from jazz's standard repertoire: the Great American Songbook, blues classics and some bebop.
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In the years that followed they learned the Tinariwen songbook note for note, word for word, even though they couldn't speak a word of Tamashek, the language of the Touareg.
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Willie Nelson performs songs off his Grammy-nominated album "My Way," a collection of standards from the Great American Songbook that serves as a tribute to his friend Frank Sinatra.
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The 90-minute performance, a scholarly exploration of black history in folk songs and spirituals both traditional and contemporary, was a pinnacle of this season's American Songbook series at Lincoln Center.
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Since the mid-1980s, Ms. Cook has reigned as a kind of sibyl channeling the wisdom and humanity of the American songbook, particularly as embodied in the work of Stephen Sondheim.
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Sarah Macdonald, Nelly Furtado Finally Tends to The Quiet Needs of Her Soul Bob Dylan has spent the last few years copying out Frank Sinatra's songbook in his own intricate handwriting.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO The vocalist Martina DaSilva and the bassist Dan Chmielinski are two 20-somethings with flexible chops, a gut-level creative connection and an expansive view of the Christmas songbook.
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Leaving behind the American Songbook for a while and finding just the right blend of the church and the blues, she was now celebrated as the greatest voice in popular music.
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Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Wednesday he will move to disband a controversial student fraternity linked to a lawmaker from his government's coalition partner, whose songbook contained lyrics celebrating the Holocaust.
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Landbauer said that while he'd belonged to the fraternity for 18 years, he had only seen the songbook, which was printed in 11, with ripped-out pages and blacked-out passages.
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Landbauer said that while he'd belonged to the fraternity for 18 years, he had only seen the songbook, which was printed in 1997, with ripped-out pages and blacked-out passages.
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Using decayed, century-old wax cylinder recordings of Wolastoqiyik traditionals as his songbook, Dutcher's titanic orchestral arrangements and towering vocal performances send these nearly-forgotten folk songs to the heavens and beyond.
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Grammy and Tony winner Billy Porter is infusing his soulful style into the songbook of one of America's most iconic composers — and he's invited some very special friends along for the journey.
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They play songbook standards ("Glad to Be Unhappy," by Rodgers and Hart) as well as spikier fare ("Snare, Girl," by Sonic Youth) in careful arrangements that balance hazy atmospherics against lush detail.
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His favorite part, he says, was Friday evening's "Bon Iver Presents John Prine and the American Songbook" set, because his daughter and son were on stage singing alongside the country-folk legend.
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Nodding to Lincoln Center's American Songbook project, Mr. Manahan led the radiant, stylish soprano Mikaela Bennett and the orchestra in a selection of songs by Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen and George Gershwin.
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Mr. Chapin, seeking to start his tenure as the Lyrics & Lyricists producer with a bit of excitement, recruited Mr. Groff to kick off the series, which explores the American songbook, in January.
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Threatened with sinking into casino-act irrelevance over the next two decades, and at one point struggling with drug and alcohol problems, he sharpened his artistic focus, concentrating on American Songbook standards.
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Created by Austin Winsberg -- whose father died of the rare disease featured in the show -- "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist" is drawing from a reasonably familiar songbook, including Broadway's recent fondness for jukebox musicals.
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"All I Want for Christmas Is You," first released in 220, was an instant classic, and remains one of the only post-'13s releases to make it into the holiday songbook canon.
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Her first attempt to grapple with the songbook of Bob Dylan — in the short-lived 2006 Broadway musical "The Times They Are A-Changin'" — earned her some of her most withering reviews.
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It is a song that everyone has heard and is part of America's songbook—the ones that seem to step outside of a single genre's fanbase and appeal to a much broader audience.
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She is now hoping to raise funds for a third edition of the songbook and teachers' guide, possibly with a collection of Afghan folktales, which she said were also disappearing from the culture.
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Bill Charlap Trio (Tuesday through June 4) On his unerringly tasteful new album, "Notes From New York," Mr. Charlap, a pianist, leads his longtime trio in a springtime stroll through the American songbook.
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Yet Dorough, especially late in life, knew what really rang bells with the people who attended his live gigs, and he never failed to give them a taste from the "Schoolhouse Rock" songbook.
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Then there is the fact that while he keeps putting his foot in his mouth Giuliani is, in the main, still singing from the Trump songbook: No collusion, witch hunt, Mueller's got nothing.
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She has since come around — so much so that the museum recently opened "Sugar Hill Songbook: Select Work by Faith Ringgold," a show of her quilts, soft sculpture, illustrations and works on paper.
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On Saturday nights year-round, Mr. Endico, 60, wears a pocket square and plays American songbook standards on an upright Steinway piano in a dining room whose hue can be described as blushing.
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It's a bad-faith reading of the tweet to assume that she's unaware of the music of Woody Guthrie or Nina Simone or Johnny Cash and virtually everyone else in the American songbook.
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This year's festival began Thursday and will run through Tuesday, when the Liberation Music Orchestra, led by a guest pianist, Geri Allen, draws from its stately songbook of resistance at Le Poisson Rouge.
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" Clues: a record of Slow Jams; a CD titled Cancelled; a score of Brahms' lullaby; a Music For Animals songbook; a scoreboard; "I came here initially so my cubs would think I'm cool.
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Ms. VerPlanck began as a big-band singer and later became well known on the cabaret circuit, especially in New York, bringing a clear and disciplined voice to jazz and the American songbook.
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He grew up with the verbose sophistication of the Great American Songbook and the belief that the mark of a true songwriter was a penchant for words, for entertaining a radio audience through imagination.
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The games show you how to chord a few notes and then start playing simple songs while the songbook lets you follow along, strumming violently with each tick of the Guitar Hero-esque interface.
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We bought the "Allsang" songbook and sang along enthusiastically and phonetically to a tune called "Trettifyran," which we learned was a Swedish version of "This Ole House," recorded by Rosemary Clooney in the 1950s.
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Back then, the singer was doing one of his Judy Garland tribute shows in New York, and Mr. Kors, known for his love of Broadway and "The Great American Songbook," came to see it.
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But it was Sondheim's score, inflected with regional accents of the American songbook through the ages, that gave the show its radiant chill, as its dispossessed characters sang longingly of a hunger for glory.
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" Ben Brantley, our other co-chief theater critic, wrote, "when it comes to emotions, Sondheim — more than any other composer from the Broadway songbook — is the one I trust to tell me the truth.
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And more than any of the (oh so many) pop-songbook shows that have befallen Broadway since the Abba-spouting behemoth "Mamma Mia!" opened in 2001, "Ain't Too Proud" is a story of attrition.
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I'm friends on the platform with the composer Anthony Cheung, who this week posted a link to the guitarist and composer Miles Okazaki's surprise new recording, for guitar solo, of the Thelonious Monk songbook.
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The final night, six brass musicians affiliated with the trombonist Roswell Rudd — a champion of Nichols's songbook who died last year — will play in a horns-only outfit led by the trumpeter Steven Bernstein.thestonenyc.
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The songbook scandal has also put pressure on Kurz, whose conservative Austrian People's Party formed a coalition agreement with the Freedom Party in December, handing them responsibility for the interior, foreign and defense portfolios.
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Her love of the American songbook and of the black-and-white movie musicals starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers that used to air on BBC 4 are interests she shares with her novel's narrator.
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The above are all selections from Soth's series Songbook, shot during seven different trips between 2012 and 2015 that he took with friend and writer Brad Zeller, together emulating the lives of small-town newspapermen.
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Landbauer, a 21759-year-old candidate for Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) in state elections, protested that he had only ever seen copies of the songbook with pages torn and certain passages blacked out.
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Landbauer, a 31-year-old candidate for Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) in state elections, protested that he had only ever seen copies of the songbook with pages torn and certain passages blacked out.
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And last month, the songbook scandal returned to haunt the party, when it emerged that a staffer for an FPÖ minister was the head of a separate fraternity that sang the same anti-Semitic song.
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Jack tries to get his parents (Sanjeev Bhaskar and Meera Syal) interested in "his" music, but they prove to be the only people on earth impervious to the appeal of the Lennon-McCartney-Harrison songbook.
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At Nublu 151, Mr. Allen celebrates the release of "Love Stone" — nine ballads, mostly sourced from the back pages of the great American songbook — joined by the bassist Gregg August and the drummer Rudy Royston.nublu.
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Joined by bassist Bryce Clark and drummer Chris Jordan (another Gates alum), Simon leaves his former band's fire and fantasy behind, instead populating his new songbook with tales of very human pain, suffering, and grief.
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For the better part of a century, this decorated singer from Astoria, Queens, has championed the great American songbook, bewitching audiences with renditions of pop and jazz standards by Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and others.
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The Disney songbook has sufficiently permeated the culture that most of these tunes should sound vaguely familiar even to those who haven't watched many Disney movies ("A Spoonful of Sugar", "I Wanna Be Like You").
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The New York City chapter of reproductive rights nonprofit National Organization for Women (NOW-NYC) recently released the Nasty Women's Choir Songbook, an online collection of cheeky anti-Trump carols set to the tune of classics.
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Eighty years ago this month, Woody Guthrie penned his most enduring contribution to the American songbook: "This Land Is Your Land," an ode of complicated patriotism whose indictment of economic inequality remains as resonant as ever.
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" On his way to winning the most influential prize for a rising jazz musician, Mr. Pobozhiy covered two songs from the back pages of jazz's standard songbook: Jimmy Rowles's "502 Blues" and Steve Swallow's "Falling Grace.
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At Zankel Hall, the klezmer clarinetist and mandolinist Andy Statman will lead his trio on March 14, and Michael Feinstein will perform "The Great American Jewish Songbook: Kern, Berlin, Arlen, Rodgers and More" on March 27.
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Pepper's is often praised for its savvy yet tender songwriting, and there's no doubt that classics like "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "When I'm Sixty-Four" are timeless entries in the songbook of history.
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The show lightly seeded this idea a few episodes ago, when Rebecca tried to find happiness by joining a community theater troupe, only to realize that she couldn't stand the misogyny of the classic American songbook.
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Kurz has denounced the songbook as "racist, anti-Semitic, and absolutely repugnant," and said there should be political repercussions over the issue, but that he is leaving it to the Freedom Party to determine the consequences.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Wednesday the government planned to disband a fraternity over its anti-Semitic songbook, amid calls for a far-right politician to resign for having been the group's deputy leader.
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According to the suit, Guthrie first published "This Land" in a handmade songbook in 1945, but by failing to file for renewal and publishing lyrics without appropriate notice, Guthrie and his publisher forfeited the copyright long ago.
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The New York Theater Workshop's Off Broadway production of this David Bowie-Enda Walsh musical was a loose sequel to the singer's 1976 movie, "The Man Who Fell to Earth," and filled with selections from his songbook.
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The most chilling option of all is this engagement on Sunday and Tuesday by Diamanda Galas, the avant-garde queen of darkness, whose recent album "All the Way" is a fantastically eerie take on the American songbook.
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As music's attitude and center have frantically shifted from decade to decade, one of the few constants has been Tony Bennett — since 1950 he has been relentless in his charm, gravitas and commitment to the American Songbook.
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And coming up are labs for stage adaptations of the films "Almost Famous" and "August Rush," as well as for an untitled Michael Jackson jukebox musical and "Heart of Rock & Roll," which uses the Huey Lewis songbook.
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So, that's what I did night after night, planting myself at the edge of the cathedral's tourist-choked parvis and parlaying an eight-song repertoire from the Liberal Arts College Songbook into a not-insignificant revenue stream.
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It had been a remarkable journey from a broken home in Atlanta to national renown as a singer who never learned to read music but became one of the finest emotive interpreters of the Great American Songbook.
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The suit included developments like the last-minute discovery of a yellowed songbook from 1922, which the plaintiffs' lawyers called "a proverbial smoking gun" because it included a version of the popular birthday song without proper copyright notice.
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It's hard to imagine his sounding much better than he does here on "Dream Dancing" and "Love Like Ours," sashaying ballads from two different songbook eras, each also a platform for the cruising eloquence of his rhythm section.
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ENIGMA, which debuted on Dec 28, takes fans on an adventure built around her biggest pop hits, while Lady Gaga JAZZ & PIANO takes stripped-down versions of her songs, as well as music from The Great American Songbook.
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"Escape to Margaritaville," drawn from the Jimmy Buffett songbook, arrives this season; shows based on the music of Donna Summer and the Temptations are having productions this fall in California, and a Cher musical is not far behind.
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Along with a songbook that references not just World War II, but the I.R.A. and the Pope, there is an evident strain of Islamophobia in some of the far-right organizations that have taken root among their number.
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Friedman, who co-founded the documentary theater troupe The Civilians and wrote the music for "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson," composed quickly and nimbly in a dizzying variety of styles: pop, rock, operetta, doo-wop, American songbook, bossa nova.
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But the ensemble has remained intact, allowing Mr. Klein to compile a songbook unlike any other in contemporary music: a travelogue as much as a repertoire, influenced by old and new tango, American jazz, modernism and indie rock.
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He survived flops — "The Mooney Shapiro Songbook," a one-performance bomb in 1981 — and moments of intense gladness, like the comedy "Legends" by "Chorus Line" author James Kirkwood starring two real-life theater legends, Mary Martin and Carol Channing.
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The lovebirds, who have been married since 2006, couldn&apost seem to keep their hands to themselves on Tuesday night, packing on intense PDA at Lincoln Center&aposs American Songbook Gala at Alice Tully Hall in New York City.
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In her 90-minute concert on Wednesday evening at the Appel Room, which opened Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, the persona she projected was a hard-working, self-possessed entertainer with a clear perspective on her show business lineage.
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On Saturday, March 30, following a performance by Little, pianist Michael Feinstein will play favorites from the American Songbook, followed by a second auction to benefit the Doris Day Animal Foundation, featuring artwork painted and signed by Tony Bennett.
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Metamorphosis: Everything is changing into something else in the music of Grace McLean, the phenomenal young singer, songwriter and actress, who closed this season of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series on Friday evening with a concert of pure joy.
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Anger over the songbook drew up to 10,000 protesters to gather outside a formal ball in Vienna Friday night that has become known as a major event on the social calendar for the Freedom Party and associated nationalist fraternities.
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After going on the run in Broken Manual, Soth rejoins society in Songbook, a black-and-white series for which he posed as a local newspaper photojournalist, traveling around the country to take pictures at beauty pageants, proms, and prisons.
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With a help of an Afghan musician, Pascale put together a new version of the songbook, 5,000 copies of which were ready to be sent to schools and orphanages in Afghanistan in 2007, together with a CD and cassette tape.
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For those who aren't super familiar with the classic American theater songbook, you'll likely be surprised how many of the Cole Porter songs from this 1948 show (which won the very first Tony for Best New Musical) you already know.
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Rap music has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but you really know the genre is a solid staple of the American songbook when new rappers like Chance the Rapper start doing covers of your favorites.
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Kidman and Urban are no strangers to showing off their love on social media, from cozying up on the way to the TIME 100 gala in New York City in April to getting glam to celebrate the American Songbook Gala.
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You can add Ms. McLean to the lengthening list of major talents (the jazz singer Cecile McLorin Salvant and the composer Lin-Manuel Miranda come to mind) showcased by American Songbook just as they are about to burst into full flower.
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Loper's go-tos are Soul Asylum's "Somebody To Shove," The Misfits' "Hybrid Moments" and LL Cool J's "Momma Said Knock You Out"; there was a time Feldman didn't make it up to mic because he fell asleep on the songbook.
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Placed alongside the other originals, a songbook standard ("A Cockeyed Optimist"), a Beatles tune ("For No One") and one by Thelonious Monk ("We See"), it becomes part of a representative picture of Mr. Hersch's nightclub set on a good night.
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He joked that the Hall of Fame had blackballed Diamond for collaborating with Barbra Streisand on "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," a divorce ballad that ought to be played "slowly and freely" according to instructions in The Neil Diamond Songbook.
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Punks at the time typically condemned the rock royalty of yesteryear, but when Shelley first picked up a guitar at age 21978, his instinct was to learn the Beatles' songbook—and that inspiration beamed brightly from Buzzcocks' teen-angst anthems.
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Its top candidate in regional elections in Lower Austria held last Sunday had been fending off a scandal after a newspaper revealed that a fraternity that he used to help lead had distributed a songbook that joked about killing Jews.
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It may be unfair to compare the new movie's songs to the originals, which were written by the brothers Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, whose words and music for "Mary Poppins" are among the greatest in the Hollywood songbook.
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The raid on the country's own intelligence service in February 2018 took place after it had emerged that a far-right fraternity, co-run by one of the party's rising stars, was using a songbook with brutally anti-Semitic lyrics.
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The trio played a mix of Herbie Hancock's 1970s songbook, J. Dilla beats, Glasper originals and jazz standards, which he tended to render in their full form on the electric piano while the bass and drums held a stubborn pulse below.
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I found Brigett's Last Laugh in northern Phoenix, a sort-of sports bar with pretty good Buffalo wings where the songbook was laden with songs you might not remember but were overplayed on the radio during the past five years.
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But in the American songbook, even our best-known songs about climactic disasters — from Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl ballads to the blues songs about rivers rising and levees breaking — have tended to be less about storms, per se, than about water.
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As a record producer and executive, Mr. Fordin, working in an era when the business was increasingly geared toward youth, made sure that music from the great American songbook and from stage and movie musicals had a chance to be heard.
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As Ms. Ian, now 64 and white-haired, performed "At Seventeen" on Friday at the Appel Room as part of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, the song's pain and anger still felt as raw as though it had been written last week.
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While the photographer takes a passive role in the observation of his subjects in Mississipi, Niagara, and Songbook, he seems to be playing a game of hide-and-seek with the anonymous, unshaven men that appear — and sometimes don't — in Broken Manual.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Louise Pascale, an American music teacher, pulled a three-decade-old Afghan children's songbook from her bookcase, she realized she was likely holding a treasure lost to Afghan children following a music ban imposed by the Taliban.
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The Manhattan Transfer, who in 1981 became the first act to win Grammy awards in the pop and jazz categories in the same year, collaborated with five-time Grammy winner Mervyn Warren for their latest album, which follows 2009's Chick Corea Songbook.
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According to a press release, Lady Gaga Enigma will take fans on an adventure built around her biggest pop hits, while Lady Gaga Jazz & Piano will feature stripped-down versions of her songs, as well as music from The Great American Songbook.
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By covering Amy Grant and the Neighborhood as reverentially as the usual batch of early 20th-century chestnuts, they demonstrate that the so-called Great American Songbook lives, and that the rosy past we all long for extends into the present age.
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He certainly demonstrates an Avedon-esque virtuosity with black-and-white values; selections from Soth's Songbook series, shot with a Hasselblad camera with a digital back, are so hyper-detailed that they almost pull details out of life that aren't normally there.
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The music they play is inherently a relic of the past, but these artists are doing what they can to keep this spirit alive, approaching the songbook in their own uniquely creative way and birthing a new folk form in the process.
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Landbauer has said he did not know of the anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi content of the songbook, since it was published in 1997, well before he joined, and he had only seen copies with those passages redacted or pages torn out.
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And the following evening, Tanglewood will host one of its many celebrations of Leonard Bernstein's centennial taking place this summer: selections from the Bernstein songbook as well as his one-act opera "Trouble in Tahiti," all overseen by the composer's daughter, Jamie Bernstein.
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But a Freedom Party politician quit in February in a scandal over an anti-Semitic songbook used by his old university fraternity, and Facebook followers of the party's leader, Heinz-Christian Strache, recently criticized him for speaking about Austria's complicity in Nazi rule.
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Still, you can make an argument that the best of those covers helped some of the greatest rock bands find their sound; listening to the Beatles plow through his songbook in their early days is like watching a puppy discover the beach.
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S.H. When Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal premiered songs from their upcoming musical based on "Norma Rae" in the American Songbook series, the excitement was palpable: Finally, a film-inspired show that targets adults, and with a pro-union message to boot.
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Against the muted tones of their beige and mauve clothing, the various hues of their brown complexions, the complexity of their hairstyles (ranging from twists to cornrows to straightened hair) and their expert use of the African-American songbook stood out even more.
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Prompted, perhaps, by the publication, in the early seventies, of Alec Wilder's groundbreaking study, " American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900-1950 ," the old songwriters have come to have a new presence, and their songs even a collective brand name: the American Songbook.
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Del Rey has always been a great imagist—crafting tangible visions of dirt roads and sparkling mansions—but here, she moves into the territory of timelessness, ripping compositions out of the great American songbook and refracting them through her unmistakable point of view.
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Ty Cobb isn't singing from the Trump songbook anymore Cobb, once part of the legal team tasked with dealing with special counsel Robert Mueller on behalf of the President, doesn't believe his old boss is right about the nature of the Mueller investigation.
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In "Listening for America: Inside the Great American Songbook From Gershwin to Sondheim," Kapilow has set himself the formidable task of demonstrating how and why standards from "I Got Rhythm" to "Send In the Clowns" have become irresistible earworms for generations of listeners.
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Lifted from the songbook of everybody's favourite stone-fruit-fucker, Call Me By Your Name's Elio Perlman, the song sees Troye compare nights with his lover to "the ripest peach or pear", before admitting that "even the sweetest plum has only got so long".
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His most recent album of his own songs was "Tempest," back in 2012; since then he has been paying tribute to the so-called Great American Songbook of pre-rock pop, like "Shadows in the Night," his 2015 album of songs Frank Sinatra had sung.
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Here is a video sampler of material from their growing songbook: WHAT IT IS A song cycle that Mr. Pasek and Mr. Paul wrote during their sophomore year at the University of Michigan, exploring the experience of adolescents and young adults coming-of-age.
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One is called 'Al Bernstein Pays Tribute To The Champions…Of The Great American Songbook' and the other is called 'Going The Distance With Al Bernstein,' which is going to be a combination of video from my career along with songs that fit the narrative.
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The lyrics of their songbook boomed around the stadium: the ones that crowed over past triumphs, the ones that reminded United of the way power has switched not just in Manchester, but in English soccer as a whole over the last decade or so.
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One spin of "Levels," an iconic entry in the EDM songbook by Swedish producer Avicii, could transform any wrecked underage festival crowd or a dismal high school house party into a slurring, memorable celebration of a screeching synth and four-to-the-floor beat.
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Bob Dylan's protean career has created many entry points for a diverse audience: You may know him as a folk activist or an electric trickster, a country-western outlaw or a born-again preacher, an American Songbook interpreter or a Nobel Prize-winning poet.
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He found the perfect quiet, unmannered funk for Bill Withers's debut, "Just As I Am," and reinvented both the Great American Songbook and Willie Nelson's career as the producer and arranger of "Stardust," a shock hit record of big band-era standards released in 1978.
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Lady Gaga's residency alternates between the pop fantasia Enigma and the stripped-down Jazz and Piano, a move that requires the stage crew to fully break down the former's expansive planetarium-esque set and replace it with the midcentury swank of the songbook standard-driven show.
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A high-ranking local party official, who helped lead a far-right fraternity which distributed a songbook that joked about killing Jews, resigned under pressure in February, and a close staff member of Austria's FPO transport minister got involved in another anti-Semitism scandal shortly afterwards.
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Mr. Blake has made a specialty of mining the classic American songbook for scores to musicals — he also wrote the book for, and co-produced, "Irving Berlin's White Christmas," which ran on Broadway over the Thanksgiving to New Year's holiday periods of 2008-2009 and 2009-2010.
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For Rodgers and Hammerstein, who wrote the songbook of old-fashioned American values (with a wink), it's a place, as portrayed in their 233 musical ''State Fair,'' where housewives derive their self-worth from prizewinning mincemeat, and restless young farm folk seek romance with worldly strangers.
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On Monday, joined by the competition's house combo of Rodney Whitaker on bass and Carl Allen on drums, he performed renditions of "Just One of Those Things," a Cole Porter standard, and "Just as Though You Were Here," a less-cited entry in the jazz songbook.
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This 10-night stand marks the third consecutive year that Dylan has concluded in residence at the landmark Manhattan theater, where fans can bank on hearing the hits of his early career, the American songbook standards he's taken to recording in recent years and everything in between.
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The family of three was given a few gifts from Archbishop Tutu following the outing, including poignant photos of Archie's late grandmother Princess Diana and children's books (Children of God Storybook Bible and Desmond and the Mean Word, both penned by the Archbishop, and a children's songbook).
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Kass may pair the lyrics of Stephen Sondheim or tunes from the Great American Songbook with the painting styles of such artists as Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, Jackson Pollock, or Frank Stella to create works celebrating the rise of pop culture and fine art in the last century.
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The director Phyllida Lloyd and a creative team that includes many of Ms. Lloyd's colleagues from the ABBA-scored musical smash "Mamma Mia!" have folded Ms. Turner's formidable songbook into a briskly efficient, if often formulaic, survey of her life — or, at least, a sizable chunk of it.
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Opening with a bona fide classic of the American songbook in "We're in the Money", the film climaxes with one of the few musical numbers of the era with real ambitions towards social commentary ("Remember My Forgotten Man", whose title echoes an address given by Roosevelt in 1932).
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So, here's an instant standard for the great American songbook, a reminder that a better world begins with gathering around the dinner table, with spreading the love we want to see, with giving our friends and family a place to come home to even when they wander astray.
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Among the numerous experimental presentations throughout the week, the interdisciplinary performance by Alice Glass and an orchestral reconstruction of DVSN's songbook asserted how valuable it is for artists to indulge the opportunity to experiment, and why binding an evolving musician to their past projects prevents them from thriving.
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The nostalgia-trip trend took fire with the stage version of "42nd Street" (already revived once) and includes the Gershwin songbook musicals "Crazy for You" and "Nice Work if You Can Get It"; the Astaire-Rogers takeoff "Never Gonna Dance"; and last season's Gershwin fest, "An American in Paris," among others.
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It was a collaboration so mutually fruitful that Bennett recruited Gaga for a full record of Great American Songbook duets (Cheek to Cheek, released in 2014), in the process lending this lifelong showy theatre rat a level of musical legitimacy that set her in a new league in the public consciousness.
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That constant upwelling of emotion is largely the fault of its soaring songbook, much of which was written by the now-famed Hamilton librettist, along with veteran Hollywood composer Mark Mancina and Opetaia Foa'i, the New Zealand-based Pacific music singer-songwriter (for whom Moana is his first IMDB credit).
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Reciting faithfully from what has become his midterm songbook, he touted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation and issued yet another ominous -- and almost entirely fact-free -- warning about a group of migrants, hundreds of miles and weeks away in Mexico, headed for the US border in search of asylum.
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"Even in 2008, there was this sense that we were playing from a very old songbook in terms of how the economy works: If you focus on productivity, everything will be fine, and the role of government is to help markets work and get out of the way," said Boushey.
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Still, I'm honored to toss a song into the ring (because I agree: If I had a nickel for every time I have heard "At Last" at a wedding, I would be well on my way to a quarter.) Let's stick with the Great American Songbook in honor of your fiancé.
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Then follow three winners from the Cincinnati songbook and the insufficiently legendary 2013 Berneice Huff mixtape—Jenny Mae's "Runaway," also all Lisa, followed by Chuck Cleaver's pensive take on the Seedy Seeds' "Nomenclature" and pained remake of the Afghan Whigs' punky old college-radio hit "Retard" with Lisa adding screamo to the refrain.
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One of the few things we know about him is that he mentored, and passed his internal songbook on to, a man named John Arch Thompson, who lived in various rural pockets of the Piedmont: Cedar Grove and Cheeks (both in Orange County) and, finally, in Mebane (pronounced " meh -bun"), north of Greensboro.
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Like Yes, I'm A Witch (Astralwerks, 245), its predecessor from several years ago, this new batch of remixes features an assorted line-up of musicians and producers who have dipped into Ono's songbook, a wide-ranging collection that includes everything from avant-garde sound collages and feminist anthems to driving rockers and haunting ballads.
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While the chorus rehearsed, the featured act of the evening, the trio Brother Sun, conducted a sound check in the church's Asbury Hall, running through bits and pieces of an eclectic songbook of traditional and original tunes, which drew on Appalachian airs and their Irish antecedents; the music of the church, and the blues.
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The artist also designed album artwork for 19813s English rock act The Pretty Things, played tennis with the band's lead singer Phil May, and tutored a young Joe Strummer before collaborating with The Clash on 1979's CLASH: 2nd Songbook, a collection of drawings and paintings released in conjunction with the group's sophomore album Give 'Em Enough Rope.
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And it's not the American songbook — though every now and again I might play "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries" or "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" — but I tell a lot of stories and it's gotten to the point where I mostly just play with my guitar and me singing, and the Carlyle is the perfect place for that.
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You may not know his name, but for nearly four decades he has bent and shaped the dimensions of almost-popular music, working with performers as disparate as Lou Reed and the Armadillo String Quartet in extravagant, cross-genre tributes to the music of Thelonious Monk or Kurt Weill, the Disney songbook or the poetry of Allen Ginsberg.
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His favorite movies of the year tend to be critical favorites, often interested in race (Black Panther, If Beale Street Could Talk), and his favorite music of the year includes — amid a slew of new releases from Cardi B, Janelle Monáe, and more — The Great American Songbook in tribute to Nancy Wilson, who died this year.
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She is perhaps now most widely associated with Baroque and bel canto opera — her skookum approach to the aria "Tanti affetti" from Rossini's "La Donna del Lago," with its dizzying runs and leaps up and down the staff, has made her rendition a cult favorite — but she is no less at ease with the gentle lines of the American songbook.
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But as I wove through the exhibit's four large display rooms — each dedicated to a single collection: Sleeping by the Mississippi (22014), Niagara (22012), Broken Manual (22014), and Songbook (20133) — it began to make more sense: Soth's photographs show him in the role of social scientist, and his subjects — a heterogeneous group of ordinary and sometimes extraordinary people — are case studies of American life.
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Kendrick Lamar (Columbia Records/Parkwood Entertainment) Outstanding Jazz Album: Latin American Songbook – Edward Simon (Sunnyside) Outstanding Gospel Album (Traditional or Contemporary): One Way – Tamela Mann (Tillymann, Inc.) Outstanding Music Video: "Formation" – Beyoncé (Columbia Records/ParkwoodEntertainment) Outstanding Song – Traditional: "I See A Victory" – Kim Burrell and Pharrell Williams (I Am Other/Columbia Records) Outstanding Album: Lemonade – Beyoncé (Columbia Records/ParkwoodEntertainment) Outstanding Song – Contemporary: "Freedom" – Beyoncé feat.
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Since the early 19803s, under the name "ONO," many of Ms. Ono's back-catalog songs have been remixed into dance-club hits, and in March, Manimal Records released "Yes, I'm a Witch, Too," the second compilation featuring contemporary musicians and D.J.-producers reworking selections from Ms. Ono's wide-ranging songbook, a collection that includes avant-garde experiments, feminist anthems, driving rockers and confessional ballads.
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" This Is My Town is Manilow's first album he's released since undergoing emergency oral surgery in February of 2016; the surgery was successful, and a week later the modern Great American Songbook contributor performed at Clive Davis' 40th pre-Grammy party in L.A.. As it happens, Manilow was the inspiration for the annual fête, which was launched to celebrate the nomination of his breakout hit "Mandy.
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"Beat Bugs," a cartoon series on Netflix that makes heavy use of Beatles songs, along with two planned shows early in their development — "Time Out of Mind," a Bob Dylan-themed drama for Amazon, and another Netflix cartoon that draws on the Motown songbook — all came about because of licensing deals that let the producers of the shows make unusually extensive use of valuable song catalogs.
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At least to the point that he'd choose "Bring Your Daughter to the Slaughter" at a Lower East Side karaoke bar at 3 AM. Everyone else picks Frank Sinatra or Blink 182, but not Fallon, who leans on the bar with a glass of sake in his left hand, thumbing through to the letter "I' in the songbook, muttering to himself like a mischievous schoolchild: "Iron Maiden… hahahahahaha. Yeah.
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With a set list incorporating P.M. Dawn's funky "Shake," Ruth Brown's bawdy "If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sittin' on It" and the classic George Jones weepie "He Stopped Loving Her Today," Nancy and Beth's poker-faced, very funny vaudeville — the act is choreographed, too — bridges the plush cabarets of the traditional American Songbook and a downtown scene where recontextualized interpretations of hits old and new flourish.
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