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What's The Greatest Holiday Song Of All Time?

Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Dean Martin, Holiday Songs, Phil Spector, Christmas Songs, Irving Berlin, The Ronettes, Frank Sinatra, Frosty the Snowman, Fifty News

Try as you might to delay the stresses of holiday shopping and planning, the season is upon us, and that means holiday music -- everywhere. In shoppin...

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Theater: "White Christmas" Early Present For Holidays

Michael Giltz | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Broadway, Lorna-Luft, Musicals, Paper Mill Playhouse, Irving Berlin, Video, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

IRVING BERLIN'S WHITE CHRISTMAS *** out of **** PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE Almost any Christmas-themed property you can name is being turned into a musical...

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Father's Day at Citi Field

Alan Singer | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Iraq War, New York Mets, Baseball, God Bless America, Irving Berlin, Citi Field, Woody Guthrie, Father's Day, September 11th, National Anthem, Afghanistan War, New York News
Alan Singer

I spent Father's Day afternoon with a friend at Citi Field in Queens catching the Mets versus the Angels in inter-league play. It was a beautiful day;...

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First Nighter: Cy Coleman's Best is Yet to Come is Here Now at 59E59 Theaters

David Finkle | Posted 07.27.2011

Read More: Rachel York, City of Angels, Douglas W. Schmidt, Frank Loesser, Ira Gershwin, Dorothy Fields, Betty Comden, Stephen Sondheim, Napoleon and Josephine, Lorin Lattarro, Joe A. McCarthy, Lillias White, Sally Mayes, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Jerome Kern, Like Jazz, Cy Coleman, Irving Berlin, Marilyn and Alan Bergman, Oscar Hammerstein II, George Gershwin, Jonathan Burke, Tony Bennett, Little Me, Michael Stewart, Carolyn Leigh, Mabel Mercer, The Best Is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman, Adolph Green, Michael Gilliam, David Zippel, The Great American Songbook, Downstairs at the Upstairs, Howard McGillin, Billy Stritch, Cole Porter, Ava Gardner, Frank Sinatra, Ira Gasman, Richard Rodgers, Sweet Charity, 59E59 Theaters, David Burnham, Arts News
David Finkle

The best is yet to come? Not this time. It's already here as it deliciously unfolds by way of singers Sally Mayes, Lillias White and Rachel York.

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Dog Ears Music: Born in May Playlist

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Engelbert Humperdinck, Blind Willie McTell, Sonny Payne, Joey Ramone, Tammy Wynette, Don Rickles, Steve Winwood (Traffic), Kate Smith, John Lewis, Sid Vicious, Mary Lou Williams, Danielle Evin, Music, Max Steiner, mp3s, Randy Travis, Irving Berlin, Phil Ramone, Roberta Peters, Maynard Ferguson, Jimmy Ruffin, Rita Coolidge (With Kris Kristofferson), Ian McCulloch (Echo & the Bunnymen), Burt Bacharach, Dog Ears, Audrey Hepburn & Fred Astaire, Sidney Joseph Bechet (& Noble Sissle?S Swingsters), Entertainment News
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week, we feature music by Sid Vicious, Randy Travis, Audrey Hepburn & Fred Astaire, and more.

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The Music and Its Message: Songs of Protest and Cultural Identity

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune, Phil Ochs, One Voice, King Kamehameha III, Christopher Hitchens, Betty Comden, Pete Seeger, San Francisco Asian America International Film Festival, Kumu Hulas, Sean Penn, Herbert Mahelona, Joan Baez, Stephen Sondheim, Hawaiian Language, Frederick Loewe, Irving Berlin, Jule Styne, Yiddish Book Center, Peter Yarrow, Fred Ebb, John Kander, Bob Dylan, Lisette Marie Flanary, Hallelujah Baby!, Cole Porter, Punana Leo, Glee Club, Tom Hayden, Ka Hinano O Puna, Aaron Lansky, Richard Rodgers, Victor Jara, Arts News
George Heymont

2011-03-22-ochs.jpg Two thrilling new musical documentaries place great emphasis on the importance of a song's lyrics while paying homage to their creators.

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Sondheim's Lyrics: Rhymes, Reasons and Religion

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oscar Hammerstein, Ira Gershwin, Stevie Wonder, Lorenz Hart, Lyrics, Irving Berlin, Noel Coward, Alan Jay Lerner, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Carl Sigman, Great American Songbook, Saturday Night, Sunday in the Park With George, Company, West Side Story, Follies, Arts News
Michael Sigman

Though I grew up in an agnostic household, I was rarely in doubt that a spiritual force was afoot. Music, specifically what's come to be called "The Great American Songbook," was our religion.

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Four Horns, One Siren: Black Bear Combo and the Rebecca Sullivan Quintet

Robert Rodi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rob Pleshar, John Tate, Sub T Lounge, Blossom Dearie, Jazz Showcase, Gerald Bailey, St. Vincent, Thelonious Monk, Rhinoceros Theater Festival, Matt Ferguson, Rebecca Sullivan, Black Bear Combo, Wicker Park, Doug Abram, Boygirlboygirl, Irving Berlin, Josh Moshier, Jeremy Cunningham, Joe & Wayne Segal, Mike Allemana, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dersu Burrows, Andrew Zelm, Ehsan Ghoreishi, Chicago News
Robert Rodi

On a frigid December night I squeezed into the Sub T Lounge in Wicker Park to warm up beneath the undulating Balkan rhythms of Black Bear Combo.

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Soprano Deborah Voigt Launches a Rich New Season of Firsts

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Francesca Zambello, Washington National Opera, Deborah Voigt, Glimmerglass Festival, Rod Gilfry, Irving Berlin, Arts News
Susan Dormady Eisenberg

Not many divas can move easily between the lofty heights of opera and the gleeful climes of musical theater, but Deborah Voigt hopes to conquer both during the next ten months.

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Big Brother 12: Tongue Digging

Tallulah Morehead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Texas, Chemistry, The Ten Commandments, Reality TV, Big Brother 12 Episode 9, Julie Chen, Irving Berlin, Mensa-Society, Big Brother 12 Episode 8, Cbs, Orthodox Judaism, Big Brother, Big Brother 12, Big Brother 12 Episode 10, Entertainment News
Tallulah Morehead

The producers of Big Brother, left with egg all over their faces by the spectacular fizzle-out of their Saboteur twist, are trying to resurrect it by asking America to vote for one of the houseguests to become the new saboteur.

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The Real Tyne Daly Stands Up at Manhattan's Feinstein's at Loews Regency

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cabaret, Frank Loesser, Night Clubs, The New York Times, Stephen Holden, Betty Boop, Jerry Herman, Cagney and Lacey, David Galligan, Marilyn Keith Bergman, Wee Bonnie Baker, Dear World, Tyne Daly, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, Bessie Smith, 80's Television Series, Rudy Vallee, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Irving Berlin, Jean Anouilh, Lew Spence, Sophie Tucker, John McDaniel, Yvette Baruch, Stardust, Guys and Dolls, Adelaide's Lament, New York News
David Finkle

Tyne Daly has been acting for 49 years. She relays the astonishing fact during her current and irresistible cabaret act at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.

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The Perfect Semitic Storm: Five Reasons Everybody Should Buy the New Christmas Albums by Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan And Barry Manilow This Season

David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neil Diamond, Phil Spector, Irving Berlin, Christmas Gifts, Christmas, Barry Manilow, Bob Dylan, Chanukah, Music and Religion, Entertainment News
David Wild

Don't crucify me, but sometimes it takes a Jew to make truly great Christmas music. Irving Berlin wrote "White Christmas" poolside at the Arizona Biltmore.

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"Hanukkah Rocks": My Only Slightly Guilty Playlist for This Year's Festival of Lights

David Wild | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Neil Diamond, Dreidel Song, White Christmas, Peter, Chanukah, Sha Na Na, Don McLean, Sarah Silverman, Don Byron, Marc Cohn, They Might Be Giants, Irving Berlin, Hannukah, Barenaked Ladies, Adam Sandler, Paul & Mary, David Broza, Chanukah Music, Peter Himmelman, South Park, Healthy Living News
David Wild

Here are some songs that will go down easy for just about anybody along with a few latkes and an extra serving of holiday spirit.

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An Interview with Herb Alpert & Lani Hall

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Laura Nyro, Carmen McRae, Crosby Stills & Nash, Music Business, Nancy Wilson, Sergio Mendes, Barbra Streisand, Sam Cooke, Stan Getz, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Judy Garland, Herb Alpert, A & M Records, Miles Davis, Concord Records, Lambert Hendricks & Ross, Cannonball Adderley, Irving Berlin, The Beatles, Michael Shapiro, June Christy, Hal Gaba, Joao Gilberto, Joni Mitchell, Ruth Olay, Frank Sinatra, Lani Hall, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jerry Moss, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

Last Herb and Lani re-emerged, hitting the road for a series of low-key shows which were recorded for the newly-released Anything Goes -- the first time they've ever collaborated musically.

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Come to the Cabaret Two by Two

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hendricks & Ross, Martin Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Norman Gimbel, Brian Koonin, Irving Berlin, Larry Fuller, Stephen Schwartz, John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey, Antoine Silverman, Tony Tedesco, Adam Guettel, Mary Ann McSweeney, Ted Sperling, Goodman and Jane Ace, Charles Fox, Cafe Carlyle, The Vicki & Ted Show, George Harrison, Stephen Sondheim, Cloudburst, Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Victoria Clark, Lambert, New York News
David Finkle

The best thing for light NYC entertainment with a hint of shadow is to storm the Café Carlyle where the John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey have a show called "Lost and Found."

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11 Years After His Death, "New" Music From Frank Sinatra

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Music Business, Warner Bros., Bono, Paul Anka, Reprise Records, Glen Campbell, Las Vegas, Record Stores, Don Costa, Music Retail, Concord Records, Frank Sinatra Enterprises, New Jersey, Music Downloads, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, Capitol/EMI, John Denver, New York Times, Capitol Records, Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jimmy Webb, Warner Reprise, Atlantic City, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

Three new releases, Live At The Meadowlands, My Way, and Classic Sinatra II should please hardcore fans and newbies alike.

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America Beyond Compare?

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Dalai Lama, America, Garrison Keillor, Irving Berlin, Randy Newman, Bhutan, Mohammed Ali, Laurel Canyon, Healthy Living News
Michael Sigman

Why does everything American have to be better than everything else? Candidates for public office constantly embarrass themselves by insisting that Americans are the best.

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An American Tune

Anne Hill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Patriotism, Election Reaction, Irving Berlin, Paul Simon, Woody Guthrie, Idealism, National Anthem, Star-Spangled Banner, God Bless America, Steven Colbert Paul Simon, American Tunes, Patriotic Songs, This Land Is Your Land, American Dream, American Songs, American Loyalty, Colbert Report, The Colbert Report, Video, Entertainment News
Anne Hill

It's one of those weird things, the patriotic hymns of your youth still live in your heart somewhere, despite all the things you learn in the meantime.

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Forget Hockey: Where Does Sarah Palin Stand on Baseball?

Karen Stabiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Westbrook Pegler, Baseball, Chicago Cubs, Sarah Palin, Irving Berlin, Yankee Stadium, Newspaper Columnists, Intolerance, Anti-Semite, Ballpark, God Bless America, Israel Baline, Conservative, Anti-Semitic, Politics News
Karen Stabiner

If Westbrook Pegler were alive today, would he join in when we sing "God Bless America" in a ballpark, or would he mutter nasty asides about the religious beliefs of its esteemed composer?

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