| 单词 | songbook |
| 例句 | Arcadelt’s first book of madrigals was the most widely reprinted songbook in Europe in the second half of the sixteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He made Mrs. Little tear from the nursery songbook the page about the “Three Blind Mice, See How They Run.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z “By the second verse her face was red as the songbook,” Miss Effie Belle said proudly. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Unlike his school, where they only had a songbook full of stupid happy songs. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z She slinks off the stage, holding her songbook to her chest. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Piano lessons became epic and trying, largely due to my refusal to follow the prescribed method and Robbie’s refusal to see anything good in my freewheeling approach to her songbook. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Then, without warning, it changes again, turbulent chords circling back into something familiar—the Elton John songbook. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z "He swapped Grand Theft Auto for the Charlie Parker songbook," Maushart wrote. What happens when mom unplugs teens for 6 months? 2011-01-18T17:01:22Z Then Leiber and Stoller turned around and masterminded the lushest, most romantic and inventive music that rock had yet heard: the Drifters' songbook. Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z It’s probably no accident that Mr. Cullum, a British musician weaned on rock and hip-hop, envisions an American songbook that includes “Don’t You Know.” Releases From Jamie Cullum and Charlie Wilson 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z And his songbook has been revived in a widely produced stage show, "Tomfoolery." Local shows of note: 'Antony and Cleopatra,' Tom Lehrer tunes, Mexico City troupe 2012-11-02T14:31:04Z Mr. Young never published his songbook, and “Go Away You Bomb” slipped through the cracks. Two Dylan Songs You Probably Never Heard Of, but You Can Buy Them 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z The songbook, Mr. Ahrendtsen said, “represents our tradition, our culture and history, the taste of the people.” Denmark Has a National Songbook. Should It Mention Ramadan? 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z His music leapt over genre divisions and, ultimately, helped stake out new terrain in the concert hall for Broadway and the American songbook. Perspective | Does Leonard Bernstein have any heirs? 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z The Beyoncé songbook is jammed with female empowerment anthems, but this 2011 single might be the most straightforward of them all. The many ways pop culture warned us about the 2016 election 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z He chooses a songbook by Ronstadt from the piano bench storage, correctly assuming the book is Bill's. It's been a "Long, Long Time" for Linda Ronstadt, whose hit song transforms "The Last of Us" 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Joining her on the bill across two nights at SummerStage will be Lucy Dacus, another young talent with a literary, confessional songbook. Afropunk and 8 Other Outdoor Concerts to Put on the Calendar 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z In a Portuguese songbook, written around 1600, images along the margins look like Australian aboriginals and possibly a kangaroo. Antiques: ‘Art Interrupted’ Exhibition Ends Tour in Georgia 2014-01-23T22:58:12Z The record will include Sinatra songbook standards like "I'm a Fool to Want You" and "Some Enchanted Evening." Bob Dylan to release Sinatra covers album 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Porter, Tin Pan Alley's showiest wordsmith, has long been the leading light for Muldoon as he infiltrates the American songbook. Songs and Sonnets by Paul Muldoon – review 2013-01-11T20:00:01Z Enveloped in the moving lyricism of Bob Dylan’s songbook, the show is akin to a poem of uplift — an ode to fellowship forged in adversity. Review | Listen up, Bob Dylan fans: You’ll want to journey to Broadway’s ‘North Country’ 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Innocent little children aren't sung the "Wizard of Oz" songbook at the dinner table because Mommy is searching for something new to complain about instead. "Real Housewives of D.C.": Meet the new frenemies 2010-07-31T23:01:00Z She writes like a devoted but conversational fan of music history — talking back to the modern songbook and to many of her favorite artists, guided by popular song to her own personal epiphanies. Lana Del Rey Talks Back to the Songbook 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z So much of Veloso’s songbook lives at that contact point between human intimacy and societal shift. Caetano Veloso’s exquisite protest music has always rejected the idea of despair 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z There are a couple of songbook standards and a glowing ballad called “I Never Knew,” featuring Mr. Marsalis on tenor saxophone. New Music From the Mountain Goats, Joey Calderazzo, Becca Stevens Band and More 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z Since then he’s been far less of an M.C. than a crooner, focusing on elegant interpretations of the American songbook. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Bobby Kennedy for President’ and ‘Vice’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z On Sunday, he’ll be the first rapper to receive the Kennedy Center Honors, and he’ll be recognized not just for the magnetism of his songbook but for helping code the DNA of rap itself. As a rap phenom, LL Cool J needed love. As a rap legend, he’s finally getting it. 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z On Sunday, Playbill Pride Spectacular, a benefit concert for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will mine the musical-theater songbook for numbers about the L.G.B.T.Q. experience. 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z But the main event is a deliriously sharp rendering of "Dr. Horrible's" story and songbook, based on characters whose chiaroscuro inner lives undercut easy stereotyping as hero or villain. Review: There's a lot to love in Balagan Theatre's poignant, fun 'Dr. Horrible' 2010-08-27T21:11:00Z “The Wobblies were so about culture creation,” he said, with songbooks, newspapers and a long history of street-theatrics and satirical cartoons. In the key of blood: Concert marks centennial of Everett Massacre 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z The radio personality and songbook authority Jonathan Schwartz will serve as host. Jazz Listings for Feb. 13-19 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z 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. Review: Barbara Cook, a Lioness Who Still Has Some Bite Left 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The lovely, creamy-voiced Kelli O’Hara continues her march through the Rogers & Hammerstein songbook, starring in a revival of the team’s beloved 1951 show about a British schoolteacher and the King of Siam. Broadway’s Second Season: 10 Shows to Watch For 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z I really wanted to let Bessie speak for herself, so I started with her songbook. Queen Latifah, Mo'Nique and Dee Rees sing 'Bessie' praises 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z But does his contribution to the American songbook qualify as literature? Bob Dylan Gave a Very Deep Lecture About His Nobel Prize 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z He immediately envisioned filling the nooks and crannies of the building with musicians on guitar singing from the patriarchal songbook in a loop. Looking at Songs That No Longer Seem Quite So Romantic 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z He wrote music for documentary films, published songbooks and hosted the children’s television shows “The First Look” and “Spirit of ’76” as well as, from 1963 to 1967, the Canadian television series “Let’s Sing Out.” Oscar Brand, Folk Singer Whose Radio Show Twanged for Decades, Dies at 96 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z The Ghost Train Orchestra, a midsize ensemble, explores the music of that period, dipping into both the Dixieland and swing-era songbooks, and offering some nostalgic compositions of its own. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z BBC4 Hank Williams was 29 when he died in 1953, having created the songbook against which country will be forever measured. BBC Proms 2010 2010-07-16T05:44:00Z A lone songbook standard, “Days of Wine and Roses,” builds on a similar frame of reference, with sparse elegance. Review: Michael Bates’s ‘Northern Spy’ Features Nods to Jazz Legacies 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Various additional ditties from the grand Berlin songbook—”Blue Skies,” “Let Yourself Go,” “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm”—were added for extra spice. 'White Christmas' has plenty of snow, not enough emotion 2010-12-17T23:58:33Z 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. Jonathan Groff to Sing Bobby Darin for Songbook Series 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z And in deference to Ms. Harry, here were some forays into an original songbook, with tunes that flattered her composure as a smoky chanteuse. Music Review: Not Exactly Your Top 40 ?Reunited? 2010-10-01T23:00:00Z Now, a McMaster University engineering students’ group has been suspended for using a songbook the school’s provost and vice-president David Wilkinson calls “highly repugnant.” College group suspended for offensive “S&M” chant 2014-01-24T20:30:00Z Advertisement Ella Fitzgerald also contributed to that preservation with her monumental “songbook” albums, but with a couple of exceptions, they pale beside the power and authority of Sinatra’s best work. Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Don’t be surprised if she pulls from that whimsical songbook in concert. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Aug. 8-14 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z “A lot of my heart and passion is in the American songbook, and that includes musical theater,” Frazier said earlier this week. Perfectly in tune, onstage and in the pit 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z This summer concert series, programmed by the pianist Bill Charlap, takes a fondly nostalgic view of jazz and American songbook traditions. Times Critics’ Guide: What to Do This Week 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The legacy of Jazz in July, which extends well beyond piano colloquy, has a lot to do with the exaltation of the American songbook. Jazz in July Celebrates 30th Season at 92nd Street Y 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Eventually, documentation, rare acetate discs and other resources resulted in a complete songbook, but an album with only 17 tracks. ‘Lost’ songs from Woody Guthrie’s time in the PNW found, rolled into double album 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z The remaining nine contestants will return next week for performances culled from the Lennon-McCartney songbook. "American Idol" road to fame ends for Didi Benami 2010-04-01T02:59:00Z Although his songbook seemed a tad obscure for the Bowl audience, the band delivered the jams regardless. A lot of chitchat — and some music — at Playboy Jazz Festival 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z They’ll draw from their second compelling duo album — “Aurora,” recorded live in Ms. Serpa’s hometown, Lisbon — with a frame of reference that includes songbook standards, film noir and Portuguese fado. Jazz Listings for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z She joined Zoom jams with other players, and bought two ukuleles and two songbooks. ‘A better time than any’: Finding joy in music lessons, jams 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z As a tot of 3 he took to singing "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas" to his stuffed animals out of a Christmas songbook, mom said. 6 geezers laying? Holidays bring on song botches 2013-12-11T14:48:03Z And it showcases him in the ideal circumstances found here: alone at the piano, singing songbook ballads at a honey drip and unveiling originals both boppish and searching, approaching the mystical. Jazz Listings for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-06T23:46:32Z However, for all the fret-shredding riffola, classics from the Cryptic Writings and Rust in Peace albums produce a crowd singsong as effectively as anything in the Take That songbook. Megadeth – review 2013-06-04T13:15:56Z In an era of production bombast and fleeting popularity, a couple of sexagenarian singer-songwriters with classic songbooks put together a warm and intimate show and ended up with the surprise hit tour of the summer. Taylor-King tour hits right note for fans and business 2010-07-17T03:51:00Z The problem with “Head Over Heels” is precisely the opposite of what has doomed so many pop and rock songbook musicals. Review: In ‘Head Over Heels,’ Jukebox Musical Meets Elizabethan Romance 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The music will also reach into Ms. Myers’s songbook, and the black spirituals of the slavery era. Amina Claudine Myers, a Singer Who Still Needs No Words 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Porgy and Bess, Guys and Dolls and others – a rich and varied songbook that paved the way for Sondheim's intellectually dazzling innovations. Why Americans beat the British at musicals 2011-02-23T12:25:04Z Park thrashes through the “Hedwig” songbook with aplomb; high points include the headbanger “Angry Inch,” the aching anthem “Wicked Little Town” and “Wig in a Box,” a tour-de-force tune of self-discovery. Review | Mason Alexander Park brings star power to Olney’s ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z And while there’s very little percussion on “Vestapol,” that doesn’t mean it’s a songbook without thump. Hiss Golden Messenger’s radiant rhythms 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z This may explain why the Bond songbook is not overstuffed with examples of subtlety. Bond tunes are commercials, but often they’re very good ones. How Does Adele's 'Skyfall' Stack Up Against the Best and Worst James Bond Theme Songs? 2012-10-08T12:00:17Z She then became a fixture at the Oak Room in the Algonquin Hotel, where she reached a pinnacle of critical acclaim performing the songbooks of major theater composers with the pianist William Roy. Julie Wilson, Sultry Cabaret Legend and Actress, Dies at 90 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z The “Transparent” swan song, its “Musicale Finale” episode, incorporates a smidge of each kind of farewell tune in its songbook. The "Transparent Musicale Finale" is a fitting eulogy for a wacky, messy series 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z None of the seven finalists proved a particularly good fit for the Jackson songbook, though one, the teenager Drew, at least made things interesting by turning “Billie Jean” into a sort of ballad. ArtsBeat Blog: 'X Factor' Watch: It's Michael Jackson Week. Oh Dear. 2011-12-01T13:14:42Z Hurley leafed through songbooks, learning what he could without understanding tuning. Michael Hurley, an Original Folk Iconoclast, Turns 80 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Talk about a waste – not just of a wonderful outfit but of a wonderful songbook. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z Her repertoire consists mostly of great American songbook standards and bossa nova tunes. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z These included, as he put it, “expanding and updating the songbook.” Laurence Hobgood, a man of medleys at Arts Club of Washington 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The resulting score became a cherished chapter in the Disney songbook. How Do You Stage Disney’s ‘Hercules’? Invite Everyone 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z And then she released three albums of songbook standards with the Nelson Riddle orchestra. ‘Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice’ Review: And What a Voice It Is 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z He dropped out of studying music technology at his local college when he found a Beatles songbook in the library and concluded he'd rather learn some songs than go to classes. Jake Bugg: 'I'd never do a talent show. It doesn't seem genuine' 2012-05-26T23:05:34Z The new season of Glee is beginning with a two-episode salute to the Beatles’ songbook. Glee Season Debut Has Brief Reminder of Monteith 2013-09-27T03:40:28Z His musical brilliance and the vastness of his songbook have gotten lost in a sea of pudgy impersonators and tacky collectibles on eBay. Who Is Austin Butler and What Does He Want? 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Dipping into the American songbook with renditions of “Learnin’ the Blues,” “Lilac Wine” and “Blues in the Night,” she also showed a facility for light pop-jazz nostalgia. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Ray LaMontagne, Katie Melua and J J Grey 2010-08-22T22:55:00Z Its score contains an astonishing number of songs — “Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” “I Got Plenty o’ Nothin’ ” and at least a half-dozen more — that are at the very heart of the American popular songbook. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z 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. Review: New York Cabaret Convention Slips In Modern Flourishes 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The show weaves songs from Bob Dylan’s songbook with Mr. McPherson’s script to create a haunting tale of desperate lives. 72 Plays and Musicals to See This Fall and Beyond 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z His stepfather, a crackerjack guitarist, taught him the bluegrass songbook and Black Sabbath anthems. How Billy Strings Picked His Way to the Other Side 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z The original, which was recorded in 1931, is maybe the best example in the American songbook of a lone and lonesome troubadour externalizing unfathomable sorrow. Postscript: Gregg Allman, 1947-2017 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Casual listeners might consequently file him as a very superior supper-club interpreter of the American songbook. Fred Hersch 2012-10-05T16:57:57Z McDonald, who appeared at Walt Disney Concert Hall last year, will sing Broadway and American songbook classics at the Bowl on Sept. 3, sharing the stage with the American Ballet Theatre. Hollywood Bowl's 2015 season strives to offer something for everyone 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z I'm very happy to play my songbook as long as I'm paid for it. Huey Lewis explores "Soulsville" on new album 2010-10-15T23:04:00Z A guitarist by turns meditative and acerbic, Harrison recently released “Angel Band,” the third in a series of albums devoted to works from the American folk and country songbooks. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Where was Tony Bennett, the patriarch of the American songbook and Sinatra’s greatest champion? Review: Stars Pay Tribute to Frank Sinatra 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z “Leave the Night On” might be sitting pretty at the top of the charts, but it’s the lightest bauble on “Montevallo,” a songbook crammed with laughter and bruises. Another country: Sam Hunt maps out Nashville’s bold new future Her most recent album is a set of duets with Tony Bennett, drawn from the American songbook. Lady Gaga's Performance at the Oscars Could Redefine Her Career 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z One tune from that Coltrane album, the songbook ballad “Violets for Your Furs,” also appears on Mr. Heath’s new release, “Tootie’s Tempo.” New Music: Big Sean and Albert Heath and Friends Release Albums 2013-08-26T21:58:51Z “Women like us, we strengthen most,” she sang on “Pleasure Is All Mine” from 2004’s “Medulla,” nodding to the latent maternal grace that girds so much of her songbook. All is full of love: Listening for Bjork’s radical humanity 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Ads showed on a screen: Aztec Two-Step plays the Simon & Garfunkel songbook; the Weight, a Band tribute band, featuring members of the Band. Listen to Sinéad O’Connor 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z What happens to it next is still apparently up in the air, as it is not, despite a remarkable Dylan songbook spanning more than 40 years, one of those easy-to-transfer projects. Perspective | Why ‘Girl From the North Country,’ with Dylan songbook, is the best musical of 2018 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Their appeal is broadened too by a love of the songbooks of English left-fielders such as Robert Wyatt and Nick Drake. The Unthanks 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z “I find holy redemption when I put this car in drive,” Morris sings, later citing the salvation offered in the songbooks of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. Maren Morris stands out on a stacked country bill at Fillmore Silver Spring 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The Imperial will now go to “Nice Work if You Can Get It,” a Gershwin songbook show whose producers had been vying with “Funny Girl” for the theater. Producer Explains the Scrapping of ?Funny Girl? 2011-11-04T22:41:46Z And then there’s Twyla Tharp’s “Come Fly Away,” which like “Fela!” and “American Idiot” relied exclusively on old music, specifically the songbook of Frank Sinatra. Tony Nominations Prove the Musical Has Lost Its Voice 2010-06-11T04:31:00Z 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. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Ella Fitzgerald codified the songbook; but Sinatra intuited it first. The Pure Artistry of Frank Sinatra 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z For “Abbey Sings Abbey” Ms. Lincoln revisited her own songbook exclusively, performing in an acoustic roots-music setting that emphasized her affinities with singer-songwriters like Mr. Dylan. Abbey Lincoln, Jazz Singer and Writer, Dies at 80 2010-08-14T19:25:00Z And with its exquisite songbook — “If I Loved You,” “Mister Snow,” “A Real Nice Clambake” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone” among the glories — the musical is one heart-melting moment after another. A ride on a ‘Carousel’ is just the ticket right now 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z His music will endure in the Mexican songbook. Vicente Fernández, the King of Machos and Heartbreak 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z It’s a songbook of tremendous range — including but hardly limited to thunderous pronouncements, shining hymns, gentle ballads and vaudeville-style “character” tunes. Music Review: Brooklyn Art Song Society at Galapagos Art Space - Review 2012-01-15T23:12:38Z Mr. Sinatra was on tour, singing his father’s classic music from the great American songbook. Frank Sinatra Jr., who lived in the shadow of his famous father, dies at 72 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z “Go Away You Bomb” was also written in response to a request by Mr. Young, this time for a contribution to an antinuclear bomb songbook. Two Dylan Songs You Probably Never Heard Of, but You Can Buy Them 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z When the producers of a new musical with a Britney Spears songbook, “Once Upon a One More Time,” went on a similar search, they homed in on the same city. Perspective | With three new musicals this fall, D.C. is reasserting its status as a premier Broadway tryout town 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Six months after lung surgery, Mr. Prine was back on the road, singing his distinctive American songbook: “Angel From Montgomery,” “Hello in There,” “Lake Marie,” “Souvenirs” and so many more. John Prine Endures, With a Half-Smile and a Song 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z Here is a video sampler of material from their growing songbook: A Pasek and Paul Primer 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z This sequel/prequel set to ABBA’s songbook is like bad celebrity karaoke. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z According to his songbook, time takes everything away — your innocence, your job down at the factory — until it finally takes you. Perspective | From Broadway to Netflix, Bruce Springsteen might be a renewable resource 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z On the surface, this was a pretty unimpeachable gig that visited various chapters of the band’s songbook. Sleater-Kinney still sounds fierce, but something seemed off at 9:30 Club 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z As I huddled near the songbook, I felt the singular anxiety of being in a foreign bar, alone and purposeless. Karaoke Coast to Coast 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Mosci, an appealing vocalist, said he focuses on the American songbook, including Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. A Quiet Drink: Music, Cocktails and ‘Madeline’ at Bemelmans Bar 2013-07-25T22:59:00Z Because her shows are ceremonial rites in which she channels the shades of show business past, Ms. Marcovicci might be described as the high priestess of the American songbook. Music Review: Keeping Torch Songs Ablaze 2010-11-21T22:34:00Z "As soon as he became big enough to record the biggest songs, he started recording the American songbook Rogers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, the Gershwins and Irving Berlin." Ray Charles' copyrights a lucrative business 2010-05-31T05:19:00Z Filling out their story is a narrative inspired by Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking “The Feminine Mystique,” Spears’s songbook, the choreography of a pair of hip-hop-savvy directors — and “American Idol” runner-up Justin Guarini as Prince Charming. What’s next for Britney Spears fans? A Shakespeare Theatre musical that may be headed to Broadway. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Under the aegis of its artistic director, KT Sullivan, the Mabel Mercer Foundation, which produces the convention, is pushing hard to modernize the cabaret tradition without breaking its ties to the American songbook. Male Performers Dominate New York Cabaret Convention 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Which is why the connections she made between so-called jazz and contemporary classical, beats and electronic music, rappers and dancers, standards and the hard-core songbook, were completely organic, and always fascinating.” Jaimie Branch, Trumpeter Who Crossed Genre Lines, Dies at 39 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z And with one, so with many: Sinatra made the songbook happen. The Pure Artistry of Frank Sinatra 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z In addition to elegant originals like “Throw It Away” and “When I’m Called Home,” the albums featured Ms. Lincoln’s striking interpretations of material ranging from songbook standards to Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man.” Abbey Lincoln, Jazz Singer and Writer, Dies at 80 2010-08-14T19:25:00Z Violence, revenge, and jealousy, three main themes of Mexico’s traditional ranchero music, are nowhere to be found in Juan Gabriel’s songbook. Postscript: The Festive Genius of Juan Gabriel, 1950-2016 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z That’s why his new show, “A Gershwin Holiday” at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency, has a focused emotional intensity not usually associated with this traditional crooner, pianist, musical archivist and outspoken champion of the American songbook. Music Review: ‘A Gershwin Holiday’ at Feinstein’s 2012-12-04T20:20:07Z Can a 21st-century pop career float on a story line instead of a songbook? What we talk about when we talk about Nicki Minaj, ‘The Pinkprint’ and pop music as conversation fuel 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Although the show is amply stocked with selections from the songbook of Stephen Sondheim, for example, Mr. Patinkin doesn’t offer anything from his celebrated turn in “Sunday.” | 'An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin': ?An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin? - Review 2011-11-22T03:01:03Z Instead "Million Dollar Quartet" leaves you with a crowd-pleasing encore that gets the audience up, cheering and singing along on tunes now forever embedded in the American songbook. 'Million Dollar Quartet' brings rock icons to life 2012-05-16T20:22:04Z She described the set list as “a really mixed bag: stuff from ‘Smash,’ stuff from musicals I’ve done and some stuff from the American songbook.” A party becomes a serendipitous encounter for a young composer 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z To him, our American songbook, in all its sprawling messiness, unites more than it divides. Review | How American music became both a reflection and an instrument of social change 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Russell and company will underscore the lasting character and strength of the Hunter/Garcia compositions as part of the American songbook. Eclectic bunch to bring Grateful Dead's music back to life 2012-03-02T23:25:04Z “I categorize myself as a soul singer who loves the great American songbook, but loves writing pop songs. It’s a very strange place to live.” Michael Bublé Always Finds a Way 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z In “Hard Times,” Mr. Kirwan has not only delivered a knockout entertainment, he’s done a public service, reacquainting us with the Foster songbook and the striving, teeming America for which it was written. Theater Review: ‘Hard Times: An American Musical’ at the Cell Theater 2012-09-21T00:54:23Z But Lambert showed he could handle the rockier passages in the Queen songbook, and he got the huge crowd jazzed by belting out “Tie Your Mother Down” and “I Want It All.” Adam Lambert leads a cross-generational Queen through the hits at Merriweather Produced by the Mabel Mercer Foundation, these performances celebrate the American songbook as interpreted by artists dedicated to its perpetuation. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Even after he accepted a teaching position at Princeton, he remained a lifelong connoisseur of the American songbook. Making Milton Babbitt’s Legacy Less Fearsome 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z During an engagement at the Plugged Nickel in Chicago later that year, his tenor solos were marvels of invention, turning even a songbook standard like “On Green Dolphin Street” into a portal for shadowy intrigue. Wayne Shorter, Intrepid Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 89 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Her new show at Birdland is a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald’s songbook albums that includes many of the same standards sung in a style only distantly related to Fitzgerald. Review: Jane Monheit, at Birdland, Alternates Latin Textures With a Moaning Cry 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The ultimate writer of the American songbook is Stephen Sondheim. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Mayor of New Orleans on Rethinking Southern History 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z But the hard-sell tone and repetitive choreography make you long for Tharp's more eloquent, variegated homage to the songbook of Billy Joel, "Movin' Out." A Broadway update, on the eve of the Tonys 2010-06-13T13:39:00Z If the comparison seems blasphemous, let’s recall the central role of the songbook in this nation’s culture. A Brief Tussle with the Great American Songbook 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z A sculptural representation of a bookworm — 140 feet of scripts and songbooks, twisted along a steel skeleton — corkscrews across the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan. How Lin-Manuel Miranda and Friends Made an Old Bookstore New 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z "I felt that I was just reinterpreting the next edition of the great American songbook," she said. U2, Linda Ronstadt among 25 albums to be preserved 2014-04-02T14:05:53Z We’ve enjoyed a glorious pileup of lusty car songs in Berry’s wake — from Prince’s “Little Red Corvette,” to Bruce Springsteen’s “Pink Cadillac,” to the traffic jam of luxury cars that populate the great rap songbook. Perspective | Chuck Berry helped build rock-and-roll. Then he took it for a ride. 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z “Cabaret Classics,” the evening portion of the marathon, begins at 8, and is devoted to artists who define the tradition and focuses on the American songbook. Spare Times for May 2-8 2014-05-01T22:36:00Z “Prove it All Night” set the tone, followed by a ferocious “My Love Will Not Let You Down” – one of the hidden gems in Springsteen’s songbook, especially because of Max Weinberg’s atomic drum fills. Concert review: Bruce Springsteen at Wrigley Field 2012-09-08T12:25:00Z 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. Where to Catch Music and Comedy on New Year’s Eve 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Unlike, say, the Abba songbook, there isn’t much sonic variety or weirdness to distinguish one peppy dance number from the next, and too much Go-Go’s can blend into one enervating beat. “Head Over Heels,” Reviewed: A Trans-Positive Spin on a Sixteenth-Century Romance, with Help from the Go-Go’s 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z The earliest albums are nominally jazz, with songbook standards in genteel combo settings. Playlist: Look Back at a Legend, Then Revisit Disco 2011-04-01T21:50:45Z Now, with a little help from their friends at the Seattle Men's Chorus, the Fab Four's songbook is getting the full choral treatment in the concert "Come Together." Seattle Men's Chorus salutes the Beatles in weekend shows 2012-03-30T00:08:04Z Q: Woody, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan wrote protest songs that are a big part of the American songbook. The Guthrie family brings the spirit of song and protest to Kent 2010-04-30T00:01:00Z Partly through his example in the late 1950s and early ’60s, jazz became less beholden to the rules of harmony and rhythm, and gained more distance from the American songbook repertoire. Ornette Coleman, Jazz Innovator, Dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z It’s an original composition based on familiar chord changes — for a songbook standard, “How Deep Is the Ocean?” Review: John Raymond, Uncovering the Possibilities of the Familiar 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z He recorded his third American songbook album, a three-disk set covering the likes of Irving Berlin and Frank Sinatra. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Among the most admired of her 21 albums were the songbook albums she recorded for DRG Records. Julie Wilson, Sultry Cabaret Legend and Actress, Dies at 90 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z In fact, even a brief scan through Stock's songbook reveals all kinds of sordid grubbiness. Ban this filth! 2010-08-12T12:52:00Z Haley Lady Gaga served as mentor in round two and said she wanted to inspire the quartet on the Leiber-Stoller songbook. 'American Idol': Lady Gaga gives microphone advice 2011-05-12T02:06:53Z The veteran stage and screen performer Leslie Uggams will sing several classics from the American songbook, including Horne’s signature tune, “Stormy Weather.” Weekend Miser: Brooklyn Philharmonic and Yasiin Bey in Bedford-Stuyvesant 2012-06-07T23:05:10Z Ella showed what polished gems they were; and she even, I later learned, organized them into handy "songbooks" that highlighted the glories of Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin and others. Who could ask for anything more? 'Michael Feinstein's American Songbook' on TV 2010-09-29T21:18:00Z Clanton and Davies have parlayed playing Joplin into gigs touring her songbook through Europe, fronting a revived version of Joplin's first band, Big Brother and the Holding Company. Capturing Janis Joplin's intensity onstage takes teamwork — and strong tea 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z With the possible exception of Liza Minnelli, Ms. Rivera is the ultimate interpreter of the Kander and Ebb songbook, in which the brassier side of show business and life’s struggles are synonymous. Pop Picks for New Year’s Eve in New York 2013-12-26T23:11:43Z Bruce Springsteen's a master of such vast shows, with a songbook awash in rousing communal choruses, and a gift to conjure powerful, intimate moments on a grand scale. Hard Rock Calling – review 2012-07-15T17:45:01Z Over all the music, including the traditional ballad “Dink’s Song,” is drawn from the songbook of the early 1960s. Joel Coen on ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ 2013-01-27T22:56:44Z 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. Newport Jazz Festival Begins a New Era, With History as a Guide 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z While adopting a vernacular vocal style, with minimal vibrato along with a somewhat eccentric conversational phrasing, she still treated the American songbook as a species of art song. Review: Jessye Norman’s Salute to the Love Song at Carnegie Hall 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z The judges complimented James' delicate interpretation of "Don't!" and Lynche's soulful rendition of "It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing" on the evening of tunes from mentor Twain's songbook. Glass-blower Magnus, 20, cut from 'American Idol' 2010-04-29T02:18:00Z His stories inspired endless adaptations, extensions and tributes, including hundreds of spinoff products: Dickens-themed hats, pens, cigars, songbooks, joke books, figurines, sheet music, ladles. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z The bluegrass jam, held in the back of the bar, is fairly relaxed; improvisation is encouraged, and the songbook is flexible. From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds 2011-02-24T21:28:59Z Taking inspiration from that effort, Gregg Belisle-Chi has released his own collection of arrangements for solo guitar from the Berne songbook album. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z And from the worst type of disappointment to the best: Another chapter of wisdom from the Bill Withers' songbook shows us the way. Readers recommend: songs about disappointment – results 2013-03-14T14:00:00Z Delightful, delicious and potentially delovely, this concert pairs the American crooner and a 25-piece orchestra with one of the great practitioners of the American songbook. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z 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. What’s Lost When Pops Orchestras Tap Pop Culture 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z 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. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z The audience at the Iraqi National Theater were on their feet, overcome with emotion as Shamma played a night of classics from the Iraqi songbook and modern compositions. Iconic musician seeks to rebuild Iraq through music 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z The Beatles’ new song, the final entry in their extraordinary songbook to be released in November, is a thing of beauty. "Now and Then": The history of the Beatles' final song and how it's getting released 46 years later 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z That he and his group are supreme exponents of the American songbook was a given. Music Review: Tony Bennett at the Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-09-19T22:54:03Z The consummate songbook insider, Mr. Charlap has never hesitated to put a personal spin on his programming at the Y: his maiden voyage, in 2005, included a piano-vocal duet with his mother, Sandy Stewart. Music Review: Four Pianists, Teaming and Competing 2011-07-22T23:35:20Z To take another page from the left-wing songbook, he wants bread and roses, too. ‘Dancing the Twist in Bamako’ Review: Youth in Revolt 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z He sticks to baritone saxophone on a pair of songbook standards, each a jazz-historical tribute. Review: Brian Landrus Trio’s ‘The Deep Below’ Is All About the Bass End 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z 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. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z Then he began a murky, unsettled, slow-rumbling prelude, only gradually recognizable as the songbook ballad “Body and Soul.” Music Review: Vijay Iyer, Alone and With Others, at Zankel Hall 2013-04-29T21:19:37Z Her grandparents cherished opera; her mother loved the American songbook and taught her children those comically bloody lullabies. Linda Ronstadt’s Borderland 2013-12-27T17:32:15Z His hits have always felt as vast as life itself, but now the Michael Jackson songbook suddenly feels even wider, more lifelike in the saddest way. Perspective | Every Michael Jackson song sounds different today 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z But it nonetheless retains a pleasing retro flavor and is a model from which many later songbook confections could learn a thing or two. Theater Review: ‘Marry Me a Little,’ Sondheim Songs, at Clurman Theater 2012-10-04T20:43:21Z Sinatra never wavered in his undying loyalty to the pre-rock American songbook, and most of his attempts to sing contemporary songs on his 1980 album, “Trilogy: Past Present Future,” sounded naïve. Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z "Long Long Time" takes its title from Ronstadt's lonesome 1970 single, which Frank finds in a songbook he digs out of Bill's piano bench, insisting on singing for his supper. In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z 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. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Dance Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Lawrence and Gorme helped keep alive the legacy of the American Broadway songbook at a time when rock became dominant. Singer Steve Lawrence says he has Alzheimer’s disease 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z The body "honours those whose work represents a spectrum of the most beloved songs from the world's popular music songbook". 2010-02-17T09:44:00Z There is always a Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook on the coffee table and impromptu games of musical theater “Jeopardy.” Review | Actress Alexandra Silber reflects on loss and solace in ‘White Hot Grief Parade’ 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z He loved the thought of workshy stoner bands, sleeping in until 12, hitting the beach and stumbling across songbook classics like shells in the sand. Feels like Devon 2011-04-01T23:01:00Z For the last decade or so he’s been gamely homogenizing the great American songbook, his voice a human computer effect, sapping pop-music history of its passion, its sweat, its ache. New Music 2011-06-13T22:00:32Z Instead, it speaks to the aching pain binding the heart of that season with a catchy songbook perfect for live sing-a-longs. Once more, with feeling: “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” turns 20, but her ability to resonate is timeless 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z This songbook app offers piano sheet music for 12 songs from the famous musical, with backing tracks to help. Apps rush: Phantom Of The Opera, RCRD LBL, Cond? Nast Traveler and more 2011-08-02T07:21:00Z Last year, the group released a disc interrogating the songbook of Miles Davis, and at Jazz Standard, it focused on those arrangements. Live Jazz: 5 April Standouts, From Andrew Cyrille to Linda May Han Oh 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z And the links between singer-songwriters and the traditional American songbook as a whole are not explored. | 'Troubadours': Recalling the Reign of Taylor and King 2011-02-01T23:08:01Z McPherson uses the Nobel Prize winner’s songbook to soulfully embroider a multi-character Depression-era story, set in a boardinghouse in Duluth, the Minnesota city of Dylan’s birth. Best of theater 2018: Sensations that crossed borders 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Today her songbook encompasses Chilean folk, aqueous original compositions, Afro-Cuban classics and modern jazz tunes by her contemporaries. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z That’s the kind of lyric that sends you scrambling back through an artist’s songbook, searching for everything you missed the first time around. ‘Faith’ proved George Michael was a superstar. ‘Patience’ proved he was a great. 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z But the kiosk also includes titles directly considered part of the Vietnam songbook. Songs of protest, songs of war 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Royston is a more forward drummer than usual for Mr. Frisell, and his busy swagger brought out something tough even during “Tea for Two” and “Honeysuckle Rose,” songbook chestnuts subjected to a slow reveal. Music Review: Floating Along on the Rhythm While Staying Anchored to the Beat 2011-04-20T21:48:56Z 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. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z He wanted to pay dutiful tribute, while also using the Monk songbook to expand his own approach to the guitar. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z “Typically my serenading songbook is more Celtic and ancient,” he explained. Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater: A Midsummer Night’s Couple 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z “To me, Feinstein’s is not only about the American songbook; in some ways, it’s become a sensibility, a lifestyle brand,” he said. Broadway’s Beloved Basement Club, Feinstein’s/54 Below, Turns 10 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z At the last minute, Robson decided to bring a Beatles songbook. Man seeks pals he once persuaded to ship him around the world in a crate 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z But treasures such as Nick Cave’s songbooks and the typewriter used by Ray Lawler to write the Summer of the Seventeenth Doll are locked in near-perpetual gloom. Geoffrey Rush: 'Art doesn’t do well in the dark. But that’s where we’ve put it' 2013-07-15T05:13:00Z What rescues this from irrelevance is the fable-like milieu of the musical and, on this occasion, Rhodes’s extraordinary grasp of how to translate the show’s powerhouse songbook into three exciting dimensions. Review | The best of the Kennedy Center’s Broadway series? Game over, it’s ‘Tommy’! 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z What “Woody Sez” does with both vigor and charm is remind us of the passions driving such now-anthemic chapters from the American songbook as “This Land Is Your Land” and “Down by the Riverside.” Theater Review: 'Faith Healer' Casts Its Spell Again 2011-02-22T13:30:04Z Who was the person who took Julie Andrews' songbook and made it alive again? Letters to the Calendar section 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z This time, as we usually do in our song parody contests, we’ll let you loose on the entire songbook. Style Invitational Week 1357: It’s parody time! 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The selection of songs from the George and Ira Gershwin songbook will be familiar to anyone over 50. Take note of these four musicals for a Tony, then vote for 'Fun Home' 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z He was a dedicated representative of the movement that fashioned its own language, owing little to the great American songbook, or any songbook. Bill Dixon obituary 2010-07-22T17:15:00Z Thirty or so of Marley’s melodies, performed by a nine-member band and a cast of 32, provide a broad survey of the artist’s songbook. ‘Marley’ at Baltimore’s Center Stage offers up the music but not the man 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Many such musicals use the songbooks to tell the life stories of the artists that made them famous. The Pop Musical: Go Big (and Loud) or Go Home 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z Money for new musicals based on popular movies or pop songbooks will always be available, as commercial producers search for the next show with legs as long as “Mamma Mia!” Second Stage Hopes $58 Million Plan Aids American Playwrights 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z "Shaken Not Stirred" offers American songbook standards, smooth dance routines, a comedy sketch or two — "and, for dessert, just a bit of burlesque." Review: Mark Siano shifts gears for El Gaucho show 2010-04-08T20:19:00Z Set in the Jim Crow South, the show features gems from the American songbook that moms and dads might recognize, including “How Are Things in Glocca Morra?” and “Old Devil Moon.” 6 Family Shows to See if You’re in New York for Thanksgiving 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Whatever the political machinations behind the reunion, it was a stirring journey through a great songbook, in part because it didn’t just focus on the hits. Beach Boys mix nostalgia, surf, melancholy at Chicago Theatre 2012-05-22T06:54:00Z Almost single-handedly, he canonized the American songbook, a body of work created mostly for Broadway and the movies that looms much larger than it might have had he not given it his passionate, sustained attention. Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Thursday night at Wolf Trap felt like the latter, with Crosby, Stills & Nash delivering some of the sturdiest harmonies in the American songbook. Music Review: Crosby, Stills & Nash’s vocal friendship transcends specter of mortality 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. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Wisely, he slipped a pair of songbook ballads into the set—“P.S. 2010-01-08T03:51:00Z He led groups large and small, and penned enough memorable tunes to fill more than one songbook. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z But nothing in Mustard’s mammoth songbook eclipsed his contributions to “My Krazy Life,” the taut, vivid album he helped produce for the Compton rapper YG. The best music of 2014: Young Thug, Aphex Twin, Charli XCX and more Some of the year’s finest singing — in any genre — could be found on Ashley Monroe’s “The Blade,” a rich and sturdy songbook where Monroe handles her most devastating lines with her most delicate touch. The best music of 2015: Young Thug, Ellie Goulding and Kelela shine 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z And while that’s disappointing in one sense, it was encouraging on Monday night to see Swift doubling down on the most recent entries in her songbook. A sleek, poised Taylor Swift breaks from boy-crazy narrative at Nats Park 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z “North Country” is a breakthrough for the songbook form, in the way “Springsteen on Broadway” has redefined the rock concert as personal, theatrical song cycle. Review | With Dylan songbook, ‘Girl From North Country’ is a triumph 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Opera Orchestra, enhancing the grandeur of this journey through the American musical theater songbook. Audra McDonald soars in her stirring tour through the American musical 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z In one sense “Instincts” is a continuation of “Living Standards,” Ms. Mulder’s last show, in which she proposed new candidates for an expanded American songbook. Review: Marissa Mulder Trusts Her Intuition at the Metropolitan Room 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z So the songbook is pretty extensive, and Prince had no shortage of amazing songs. Prince’s genius, through the Revolution’s ears: “He took the best bits of Beethoven, the Beatles and James Brown” 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Under a brief sprinkling of rain, the president’s 16-minute inaugural address was another refrain from his campaign songbook, a vociferous ode to his tribe of Forgotten and Fed-Up Americans. As TV goes, the inauguration was perfunctory and unimpressive, but it had moments 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Here Ms. Monheit sticks almost exclusively to the standard songbook, swinging gaily on some tunes and burning a low flame on others. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-26T21:57:00Z The songbook of U2, whose roots go back to Dublin in the mid-1970s, is more than long and stout enough to survive taking any single album out of the mix. Review | No bells and whistles, no biggest hits, but U2 is still one of the best big rock bands in the world 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The last decade of programming at Jazz in July has validated that hunch, with a steady, sensible diet of songbook elucidation and jazz-historical homage, along with that signature emphasis on pianism. Jazz in July Celebrates 30th Season at 92nd Street Y 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z Taken together, these artists' work suggests something encouraging about the durability — and also the adaptability — of the classic songbook. Jazz singers bring new life to old standards Looking back at the greater Beach House songbook, one complaint is that it’s just a perpetual gust of low-stakes prettiness. Review | The Beach House concert that time forgot 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z His nightclub act is a polished, carefully balanced program that weaves his theatrical signature songs, Top 40 hits, standards from the American songbook and ’70s pop classics into a thoughtful self-portrait. Music Review: Aaron Tveit at 54 Below 2013-05-12T20:06:45Z We watched a clip on YouTube last night of Gamble and Huff saying that, apart from James Brown, theirs is the most-sampled songbook of them all. New band of the day ? No 940: Star Slinger 2011-01-06T17:18:25Z He will be inducted posthumously, as will Mr. Garcia, whose collaborations with Mr. Hunter represent some of the best-loved entries in the Grateful Dead songbook. Songwriters Hall of Fame to Honor Toby Keith, Cyndi Lauper, Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Still to arrive in the spring are the Disney vehicle “Newsies,” the Gershwin songbook musical “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” and the movies-turned-musiçals “Ghost” and “Rebecca.” ArtsBeat Blog: Even Before Off-Broadway Opening, 'Once' Announces a Move To Broadway 2011-12-07T00:17:19Z But she said that she is familiar with the Ellington songbook. ArtsBeat: K.D. Lang to Make Debut on Broadway 2013-09-12T19:07:40Z Or self-involved divas who get their comeuppance, then mournfully peruse the Barbra Streisand songbook for succor? Riff: How Football Players Got Trounced by ?Glee? 2011-06-03T12:00:00Z For all its hip cynicism, “You’re the Worst” may be done in by yet another refrain from a more popular songbook: the power of love. ‘Married’ and ‘You’re the Worst’: Pushing boundaries on the dark side of sex and relationships Pop’s nuclear songbook is surprisingly thick, but its tensile strength has always been tested by the weight of our fears — fears that can feel dumb and irrational until smart, rational people start feeling them, too. Perspective | Can a pop song prepare us for the end of the world? 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z 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. Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The theme tonight is country music, with the singers choosing songs from the songbook. Spoiler alert! We're live-blogging tonight's Top 6 'American Idol' performances 2010-04-28T00:31:00Z Pulling from the extended Cole songbook, the album also includes a song in Portuguese, and two additional tracks -- "Mona Lisa" and "Stardust" -- will be available as digital extras. Cuban singer revives Nat "King" Cole's Latin numbers 2010-08-21T02:46:00Z 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. ‘Say Amen, Somebody’ Will Make You Want to Sing Out 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Distler was discussing the latest and most ambitious recording of his career: a full-on reckoning, alone at the piano, with the monumental songbook of Thelonious Monk, roughly 70 pieces in all. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z “Until 2006, every time the songbook changed, the new songs were already being sung,” he said. Denmark Has a National Songbook. Should It Mention Ramadan? 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Sinatra did not merely interpret the American songbook. The Pure Artistry of Frank Sinatra 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z He moved beyond the American songbook, in which even the most brilliant players, like Charlie Parker, often found their source material. Ornette Coleman and a Joyful Funeral 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z The event is presented by the Washington Square Association, which will also distribute songbooks. Spare Times for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Each song slowly emerged out of a rumbling chromatic dissonance: Billy Strayhorn’s “Chelsea Bridge,” Mr. Shorter’s “Nefertiti,” the songbook standard “Body and Soul.” Vijay Iyer and Mark Turner Help Open the Met Breuer 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Rock, Sanneh writes, “seems to have become repertory music, a new great American songbook for Americans who don’t much care for the old great American songbook.” ‘Major Labels’ Wraps Popular Music — All of It — in a Warm Embrace 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z “When these young artists perform songs from the American songbook for their peers, they all get excited,” Sullivan said. Meet the Next Generation of Cabaret Showstoppers 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Welcome to Sing Sing, our beloved karaoke den on Avenue A. This is our favorite spot because it has everything you want in a karaoke place: great songbook, private rooms, surly bartenders, cheap drinks. Exclusive: An Excerpt from the Sequel to Rob Sheffield’s Love is a Mix Tape 2013-05-29T15:56:47Z 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. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Masada, which he began in the early 1990s, was an attempt to explore his own roots and expand the idea of Jewish music through a “songbook” that linked the language of klezmer and jazz. Turning 60, John Zorn Sees His Eclecticism as a Musical Norm 2013-07-10T12:00:01Z 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. Now You Know: A Critic’s Guide to Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z Here critics and editors at The Times suggest songs that could further expand the notion of the songbook. American Songbook Series Reshapes the Canon 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z "An American in Paris," recycling the George and Ira Gershwin songbook, was a breathtakingly staged exercise in baby boomer nostalgia. Tony Awards show a new maturity in theater scene 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z "American Idol" news and links for Tuesday, April 6 Nina Pardo This week on American Idol, the Top 9 will try out tunes from the Lennon and McCartney songbook. "American Idol" news and links for Tuesday, April 6 2010-04-06T19:58:00Z Maxwell and Mary J. Blige proved this idea at Verizon Center on Sunday night, gliding and roaring through their respective songbooks, both of which now span more than two decades. American soul survivors: Maxwell and Mary J. Blige in concert 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Even stone sober, it’s easy to fall under the spell of Future’s dizzy-deep songbook. Soft, smooth and steady: How Xanax turned American music into pill-pop 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z Various additional ditties from the grand Berlin songbook -- "Blue Skies," "Let Yourself Go," "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" -- were added for extra spice. 'White Christmas' has plenty of snow, not enough emotion 2010-12-17T06:00:00Z 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. In Las Vegas, All You Need Is ‘Love’ and Eight Million Beatles Fans 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z 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. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The Duke Ellington songbook has been tapped for the shows “Sophisticated Ladies” and “Play On!” On and Off Broadway, doing more with less 2013-12-04T22:00:07Z He is an extraordinary exemplar of a generation that made the American songbook what it is. Tony Bennett and his wife awarded GWU’s highest honor 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z 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. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon With Protest at Its Heart 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Over the past few years, small groups have occasionally tackled Monk’s complete songbook, the most referenced body of work in jazz. For the First Time, Thelonious Monk’s Songbook Swings Solo 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z The state choir's songbook includes Monteverdi, Puccini and Bach, but the Creole Choir is Chavez's attempt to honour her own family traditions. The Creole Choir of Cuba: the a cappella aid agency 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z Sinatra agreed: “I really feel like everybody’s singing from the same songbook. When you think about where we’re at in the world, it kind of makes sense.” Normally a study in contrasts, paint companies’ 2022 colors of the year are pretty much the same 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Fully original musicals — those not based on books or movies or pop songbooks — are increasingly rare on Broadway, and “Flying Over Sunset,” on paper, was certainly original. Up, Up and Away: The Trippy Tales Behind ‘Flying Over Sunset’ 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z Also weird: how she is cheered for being so uncompromising while her songbook is so rotten with compromises. Is a Rihanna album without hits still a Rihanna album? 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z It’s a battle that reaches absurdist heights as they break into different fragments of songbook standards, like “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” sung in aggressive counterpoint. Review: ‘Old Times,’ Where the Past Is a Dangerous Place 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “His influence in our lives goes way beyond his contributions to the American songbook,” Clinton said. The Kennedy Center Honors: How sweet it is to be loved by the nation 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Since then he has gone from strength to strength, with a songbook that includes 24 number one hits. Songwriting honour for Steinman 2012-02-22T16:01:31Z Scott became known as a "singer's singer" who was revered by music figures such as Reed, Quincy Jones and Madonna for rendering standards from the American songbook in his distinctive high register. Jimmy Scott, angel-voiced jazz singer, dies at 88 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z This is a dip into the songbook from an assertively gay male perspective, embracing many Sondheim tunes originally sung by women. Where to Celebrate Sondheim in New York 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z 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. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z This timidity is but one example of the ways in which the show comes up short, both as a feminist text and as a tribute to Spears’s songbook — and, yes, her life. ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ Review: Cinderella, Liberated (Again) 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Haran, 58, is known for her celebrations of the American songbook, especially the work of Rodgers and Hart, Harry Warren, and the music of Doris Day. ArtsBeat: Mary Cleere Haran Injured in Florida 2011-02-04T18:18:40Z New musicals on Broadway today are mostly audience-pleasing machines manufactured from cultural spare parts: a movie screenplay, a rock songbook, the self-conscious attitudinizing of late-night comedy. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z That an assembly line has formed to manufacture popular rock songbooks into jukebox shows doesn’t necessarily mean the road to Broadway success is a breeze. Perspective | Will ‘Ain’t Too Proud’ be better than other jukebox musicals? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z “Which is to say, engaged, engaging and full of fire. Where Winehouse nervously goes through the motions, Jones swaggers and stomps through her songbook.” Sharon Jones, powerful soul singer with throwback style, dies at 60 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z The composer and lyricist would be Bob Dylan — decades before he proffered his songbook to Twyla Tharp for 2006’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and to Conor McPherson for “Girl From the North Country.” Bob Dylan’s First Musical Had a Devil of a Time 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z "American Idol" tackled the Carole King songbook tonight, and I felt the earth move once. James Durbin makes earth move on 'Idol' 2011-04-28T02:21:00Z Here’s a sweet-salty project that will charm Santa or any cookie lovers at your house: sugar cookie “angels” with mini pretzel wings and almond hands/songbooks. These angel cookies can’t help being good 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z But in the studio, his new record label, Impulse, wanted easygoing songbook albums that would win over reviewers and buyers. ‘Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album’ Review: Sitting in the Studio With Coltrane 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z And it confirms the status of Kelli O’Hara, its Tony-winning leading lady, as one of our most incisive and translucent interpreters of the great Broadway songbook. The Best Theater of 2015 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z 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. From ‘South Park’ to ‘Knives Out,’ Pop Culture Is Steeped With Sondheim 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z The hallmark boom of Chuck D’s voice added a new richness to the detonative force of the Rage Against the Machine songbook, even if he struggled to fall into the pocket from time to time. Prophets of Rage and the trouble with fighting today’s wars using yesterday’s weapons 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z And it does so with a songbook so saturated with memories for many who have grown up in France that there is joy — and occasionally melancholy — in simply mouthing along to the lyrics. France Cheers for a Musical It Loves but Hasn’t Watched 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The Top 9 will be tackling the Lennon McCartney songbook. Spoiler alert! We're live-blogging tonight's 'American Idol' Top 9 performances 2010-04-07T00:51:00Z To watch it for over an hour was to embark on an epic journey; to hear it was to witness her take on the American songbook. What’s Beyoncé’s Definitive Album? 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Even Taylor agrees it's a minor entry in her songbook: To date, she's only played it seven times in concert. Taylor Swift's 1989: The stories behind her biggest album 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Jimmy Buffett, who died on Friday at age 76, was the rare singer-songwriter who was keenly aware of the songs that comprised his core songbook. The 12 essential Jimmy Buffett songs 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z “He was a place of refuge for the American songbook,” lang told the Associated Press. Tony Bennett left his heart to generations of music fans 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z He tirelessly embraced film music, quasi-opera, symphony, jazz, ballet and the American songbook. Commentary: Look out, New York. This is what an L.A. summer week looks like for Gustavo Dudamel 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z He was the last of his kind, a master of the American songbook. 'He's irreplaceable': Tony Bennett remembered by Elton John, Billy Joel and other celebs 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Tony Bennett was the great interpreter of the American songbook. Tony Bennett obituary: The great interpreter of the American songbook 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Elizabeth Scala teaches a course on Taylor Swift’s songbook at the University of Texas at Austin as an introduction to literary studies and research methods. ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’ is here. Here’s how to reconsider Taylor Swift’s transformative album 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z For nearly three hours Saturday night, Mitchell, Brandi Carlile and friends brought alive one of the great songbooks in popular music. Blackie Onassis, drummer for ’90s rock band Urge Overkill, dies 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z The creative team could have taken a lesson from “& Juliet,” a far more enjoyably effervescent British import two blocks away, buoyed by the pop songbook of Max Martin and others. Review | Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Bad Cinderella’ gets the title it deserves 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z On the eve of ‘Songs of Surrender,’ featuring new takes on old classics, the singer and guitarist talk about reinventing their songbook and their future as a foursome. For 3-plus hours, Taylor Swift delivers a master class in pop ambition 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z He made few changes to Tony's look and the music still came from the Great American songbook, but the focus was on a new generation. Tony Bennett obituary: The great interpreter of the American songbook 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Caldwell dabbled in various jazz styles, including interpreting the great American songbook in the vein of Frank Sinatra. Bobby Caldwell, smooth 'What You Won't Do for Love' singer, dies at 71 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z The 2018 Catholic University graduate admits that she was embarrassingly unfamiliar with Sondheim until she went to college, became a musical theater major and did a deep dive into his songbook. Decoding the genius of Sondheim: Six theater pros explain his mystique 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Argentina's supporters stayed in their seats for well over an hour, going through the songbook that has been the soundtrack to their World Cup campaign, paying homage to the man they counted on. 'No-one can now deny Messi is one of game's greatest' 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z Their fans claimed huge swathes of Lusail Stadium for almost an hour after the game to go through their full songbook long after Argentina's joyous players had departed the scene. Messi shines as Argentina win chaotic Qatar classic 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z And though “A Beautiful Noise” hits on a through-line of torment in his songbook, the framing of the show as a tour of Diamond’s seeming depression is inevitably dreary. Review | On Broadway, Neil Diamond seems a drag and ‘KPOP’ needs a rethink 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z Johnny Cash exited life as an elder statesman reinterpreting the national pop songbook in a series of monumental final recordings, less a comeback than a summation of a life lived hard and well. Perspective | Brendan Fraser’s comeback says less about him than it says about us 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z He recently remarked that making the LP marked his effort to "do justice" to "the great American songbook of the '60s and '70s." Bruce Springsteen's "Only the Strong Survive" pays homage to great songwriters who came before him 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Some the book’s most passionate passages concern the songbook of Dylan’s parents’ generation, hits crooned by the vocal stars of the pre-rock era. Bob Dylan's new book is revealing, misogynistic and a special kind of bonkers 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z But because Swift loves a reliable narrative structure, she saves the best for last: a delicately percolating song titled “Mastermind” that casually throws her songbook’s guiding principles into question. Review | On ‘Midnights,’ Taylor Swift sounds wide awake 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Pasquale: And I have no previous experience with “Guys and Dolls” other than I’m an American songbook guy, so I know all of Frank Loesser’s canon. Real-life couple play make-believe lovebirds in ‘Guys and Dolls’ 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Milton Nascimento says he never planned the beautiful zigzags of his musical career, and if you trace the contours of his teeming songbook, you’ll have no choice but to believe him. Milton Nascimento says goodbye to the stage, but ‘never to the music’ 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Sheen's was the Hollywood acapella send-off; the Cardiff City Stadium crowd's the surround-sound accompaniment, the great Welsh songbook booming into the night sky with the strength of 33,000 loud speakers. Wales savour World Cup send-off in Cardiff 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z At the end of the show Biden surprised John with the National Humanities Medal, for his songbook and his long legacy of advocacy. Biden surprises Elton John with the National Humanities Medal at White House performance 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z No. We are louder than they are, and we have all of our minds and ideas and votes in the songbook from which democracy sings. Cacophony of dunces: When the Supreme Court trashed the Constitution 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z Two hits from the show, “People” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” have a permanent place in the American songbook. Review: 'Funny Girl' still belongs to Barbra Streisand, but Beanie Feldstein is easy to love 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z "His immense songbook and recordings encompass some of the most cherished and enduring songs in music history." Hitmaker Neil Diamond sells entire song catalogue to Universal 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z Later in life, he produced a series of American songbooks, in which he reimagined American pop tunes, spirituals and folks songs, especially from his native Appalachia. George Crumb, quintessential composer of the avant-garde, dies at 92 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company recently staged the world premiere of “Once Upon a One More Time,” a lighthearted feminist fairy tale with music from Britney Spears’s songbook. Perspective | How do theaters entice new audiences with Shakespeare? There’s the rub. 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z The goons who oversee the empire sing from the same Satanic songbook. The execution of Julian Assange: He exposed the crimes of empire — and that can't be tolerated 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z His illustrations of Mr. Sondheim, the most complex character portraitist in the Broadway songbook, make you understand why. Opinion | These Hirschfeld Drawings Capture Sondheim’s Shows Better Than Any Photo 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z And when the old Anfield songbook was dusted off in his honour early on, Gerrard did not move a muscle, standing drenched in a dark overcoat focussing fiercely on the action in front of him. 'Gerrard uninterested in sentimental return' 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z Miranda, deeply steeped in the Disney songbook, looked to a musical of his youth: “I was really inspired by Belle from ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ with that opening number that just lays out the town.” How Lin-Manuel Miranda became a go-to songwriter for Disney 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The public arts school has a Korean department where some of the performances are based on North Korean songbooks, but with altered lyrics. What’s in a Name? For the Koreans of Sakhalin, an Anguished History 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z “So this is where I finally said, ‘It’s time to really knuckle down and start making the songs we put together, starting to build a songbook,’ ” says Thomson. After two decades, Cairo Fred starts to build a songbook 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z It cycled through all the newest numbers in Newcastle United’s songbook: the one about being richer than Manchester City, the one questioning the identity of Paris St.-Germain, the one that just goes: “Saudi Mags.” In Newcastle, Songs Drown Out the Hard Questions 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z The estate manager hopes to put together a film about Denver’s life, as well as a documentary about his activism and a Broadway musical based on his songbook. John Denver treasured his home life when he wasn’t on stage, pal says: 'He would always miss the kids' 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z So does his official website, brucespringsteen.net, and his official songbook, “Bruce Springsteen: Songs.” 'The screen door slams, Mary's dress...' waves? Sways? An investigation into The Boss' mystery verb 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z With a songbook featuring “Fourth of July,” “King of California” and “Every Night About This Time,” the Grammy-winning Alvin is esteemed as one of the premier American songwriters and a California treasure. The night L.A. rocker Dave Alvin was an English professor 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z After some of the younger viewers started requesting Beatles songs, someone sent him a songbook of the group’s hits, and he mixes those tunes in. Former composer, wife invite viewers to ‘Stump the Maestro’ 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z After some of the younger viewers started requesting Beatles songs, someone sent him a songbook of the group’s hits, and he mixes those tunes in. Former composer, wife invite viewers to ‘Stump the Maestro’ 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z Love and heartbreak, the fight against a rotten boss, pursuit of a professional ambition: All these universal experiences get respectful treatment in her songbook and in her movies. Opinion | Dolly Parton is the superhero America needs in 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z They also found an SS songbook, 14 editions of a magazine for former members of the Waffen SS and a host of other Nazi memorabilia. As Neo-Nazis Seed Military Ranks, Germany Confronts ‘an Enemy Within’ 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z The iconography, the songbook, the pattern of the “protest” that day was familiar: It belonged to, and was borrowed from, soccer. Soccer Needs to Break This Link 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z Williams responded by ordering “Dixie,” which sometimes invited the Confederate flag to be unfurled in the stands, erased from the band’s songbook. Perspective | Roger Goodell’s apology isn’t enough. The NFL must do more to combat systemic racism. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z He assembled tribute albums, featuring a range of cults stars —and, occasionally, superstars —performing the songbooks of such heroes as Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Kurt Weill and the Italian composer Nino Rota. 10 inspired, singularly eclectic productions by Hal Willner, music's hippest curator 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z His songs — compassionate, funny, sage — make up an American songbook that would be staggeringly intimidating if it wasn’t so warm and welcoming. 7 Essential tracks from John Prine, folk music’s Mark Twain 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z Withers’ songs are some of the most beloved in the American songbook. Bill Withers, influential soul singer behind Ain't No Sunshine, dies aged 81 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s more like a songbook of fables, rendered for an anxious world that everyone, all alone, is trying to find a way out of. 33 life-affirming albums to help get you through self-quarantine, according to music experts 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Out of a set of loudspeakers on the truck, music from the Hindutva songbook poured out. How Hindu supremacists are tearing India apart 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z He knew thousands of songs from the rock-and-roll, gospel, blues, country and pop songbooks, which he drew on for marathon medleys. Sleepy LaBeef, human jukebox of rockabilly music, dies at 84 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Performing with the NSO Pops, her songbook will get the grand orchestral treatment that it deserves. 4 concerts to catch in the D.C. area over the next several days 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z The first female artist to top the pop, country and R&B charts simultaneously, Ronstadt packed arenas with a personal songbook that crossed multiple genres. What's on TV Wednesday: 'Doctor Who' New Year's special on BBC America 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z His most popular project from the nineties was “Old Songs About Important Things,” a faux-retro musical set on a Soviet collective farm, in which actors crooned tunes from the Soviet songbook. The Kremlin’s Creative Director 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z It's an uncharacteristically spare and melancholy addition to the star's songbook, and deals with the passing of a beloved friend. The real story behind Prince's Little Red Corvette 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z At the home, the organist opened the dog-eared pages of a songbook. ‘I Saw a Car Ahead of Me That Also Appeared to Be Looking for a Spot’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z This Is How is the first new music from George Michael in seven years, and features in the forthcoming rom-com Last Christmas - a movie co-written by Emma Thompson and based around the star's songbook. George Michael: Upbeat new song premieres 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z So here she worries from her place of stability what it would feel like if it all fell apart — and does so in language as vivid and specific as any in her songbook. Taylor Swift's 'Lover': All 18 songs, ranked 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z When I suggest that some quality of Crow’s songbook lends itself to duets among young women, Jordan interjects: “Sisterhood!” At home with Sheryl Crow, a widely beloved, and wildly underappreciated, rock star 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Advertisers recognize the power of the American songbook, too. In a globalized world, music fragments take unexpected roads 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z At the Disney-themed disco dance party Friday evening at San Diego’s House of Blues, however, the Roots’ Questlove drifted away from the Disney songbook. Disney, with the help of Questlove, gets its disco on at Comic Con 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z Disney’s theme tune is the studio’s equivalent of Over the Rainbow: a song from a children’s film that went beyond its intended audience and ended up part of the great American songbook. The 30 greatest Disney songs – ranked! 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Patel admits it was "surreal" and "a real joy" for them to find their own way into the band's famous songbook. Inside Boyle's world without The Beatles 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z The estate of Harold Arlen - who wrote such American songbook classics as Over The Rainbow and Get Happy - is suing some of the world's biggest tech firms. Over The Rainbow composer sues tech firms 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z Legal arguments aside, those basic building blocks - the “alphabet of music” - are responsible for producing huge chunks of the American songbook in ways far more fundamental than most listeners realize. In a globalized world, music fragments take unexpected roads 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z He released the album “Roots & Grooves” in 2007; fully half of it was from the Charles songbook. Saxophonist Maceo Parker has done it all 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z In playing with Thompson, they were learning to play with one another, and in reading his human songbook they established their own repertoire. Rhiannon Giddens and What Folk Music Means 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z But shows such as “Modern Family,” “Seinfeld” and “Friends” are now part of the great American songbook. Moms are the only things robots can never replace 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z This week proved that Musgraves has a songbook to rival those artists and could be destined for the same magnitude of success. Review: Kacey Musgraves is for lovers at post-Grammys Valentine’s Day show 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Singers flipped through the black songbooks on their laps. D.C. Labor chorus: ‘The musical arm of the resistance’ 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z What was revolutionary about “The Wiz,” first in the original Broadway production and then amplified by Jones’ work on the splashy film version, was its songbook. On its 40th anniversary, a look at how 'The Wiz' forever changed black culture - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z The concert will draw from the poetry of Machiavelli and the songbooks of courtly singers. Renaissance focus of New Hampshire museum exhibit 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z I recently found the songbook I wrote it in, in pencil. How ‘Summer in the City’ Became the Soundtrack for Every City Summer 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The busker’s songbook proved not to be as extensive as Dykstra hoped. Lenny Dykstra Has More to Say 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z It spun a beloved songbook and an insanely popular stage property into the requisite box-office gold. Review: Does ‘Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again’ improve on the original? ABBA-solutely! 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z He leafed through a Billy Joel songbook and seemed to fall into a reverie as he belted out a polished version of “New York State of Mind.” Reality TV Kingpin Mike Darnell Wants One More Hit 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z I have never heard Jonathan Schwartz, but I am told that he did a fine show, if one likes the American songbook. Harassment at WNYC Was Not ‘Systemic,’ Report Says 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z And just as growing up in Takoma Park left wild marks on Fahey’s imagination, it also left lasting marks on his songbook. John Fahey’s psychedelic legacy was born in Takoma Park. This festival is bringing it home. 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z The show: The Jimmy Buffett songbook comes to life in a show that began in La Jolla, then played New Orleans, Houston and Chicago before landing at Broadway’s Marquis Theatre. Why Broadway's hottest theater just might be on the West Coast 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The hope is that opening figure skating’s songbook will boost TV ratings and entice a wave of youngsters to try the sport, ensuring the next generation of fans and would-be gold medalists. Will the addition of lyrics have Olympic figure skating judges singing along? 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z 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. The Elegant Relic of Restaurant Row 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Austrian media recently revealed that one of the fraternity’s songbooks contained anti-Semitic lyrics. Austrian politician quits over neo-Nazi fraternity scandal 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Neither was “Midnight Love,” a sumptuous songbook that etched the curves of Marvin Gaye’s voice into the greater American psyche for good. Setting the records straight: A do-over for the Grammys’ album of the year 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Austrian fraternity investigated over Nazi lyrics: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz says prosecutors are investigating a student fraternity whose songbook contains Nazi lyrics. World Digest: Jan. 24, 2018 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Mestel, whose first job was working for Mr. Blackwell at Island, declined to offer any specifics about his plans for the Marley songbook. Buying a Piece of Bob Marley’s Song Catalog, and His Enduring Legacy 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z We provide a songbook and everyone starts singing. A conversation with the NIH director: On overseeing medical breakthroughs, making music and riding a Harley 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z He also diversified the chorus’s songbook, supplementing canonical works by Brahms and Handel with modern pieces Mr. De Cormier sometimes composed himself. Robert De Cormier, singer and arranger who bridged classical and folk, dies at 95 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The songbook for our democracy is infused with our history, the joy of our glories and the pain of our failures. An excerpt from 'What Unites Us' 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z “It’s the great new American songbook,” said Davis, 85, emphasizing the crucial word in his raspy New York accent. How Taylor Swift gave Clive Davis the idea for Johnny Mathis' 'Great New American Songbook' 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z By 2005, the Times labeled Ms. Cook “the Mother Earth of the American songbook,” and her master classes on how to interpret and perform theater songs were renowned from coast to coast. Barbara Cook, luminous singer of Broadway stage, dies at 89 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Nicks had earlier played a support slot, running through her Fleetwood Mac songbook with renditions of Dreams and Gold Dust Woman, alongside solo hits Edge of Seventeen and Landslide. Fans delirious as Stevie Nicks joins Tom Petty on stage - BBC News 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Empty seats outnumbered occupied ones, and the stadium buzz was more of a murmur as the Red Bulls’ supporters section valiantly rolled through their usual songbook. A Showcase Match Falls Flat as Two M.L.S. Linchpins Search for Answers 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z Curls mentioned how senators “need to be singing out of the same songbook” before beginning the song. Senators sing ‘Kumbaya’ to infighting chamber 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z Only 1000 copies of Mr Rotten's songbook have been published, each one signed by the "61-year-young" singer. John Lydon turns writer for release of new songbook - BBC News 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z However, this is the first movie that combines massive fandom with an internationally adored songbook. 'Books, not boys': Director Bill Condon on updating 'Beauty and the Beast' and the whole princess/prisoner deal 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In the alarmingly beige conference room of a Beverly Hills hotel, the man who helped launch six princesses, more than a dozen musical films, and a national songbook of singalongs sits down at a piano. What happens when you put Josh Gad and Luke Evans at a piano with Alan Menken? Disney magic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Chasing Dreams, a collection of songbook classics, outsold the likes of Zayn Malik and Jack Garratt... begging the question, will there be a sequel? Brits 2017: The real winners and losers - BBC News 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The sound that Miranda found for Hamilton whizzes together a short lifetime of musical enthusiasms, melding hardcore and operetta, the American songbook and the British invasion. Lin-Manuel Miranda: the bard of Broadway 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z This ambiguous meditation on spirituality, sex and song unexpectedly grew into his most timeless contribution to the collective songbook. Leonard Cohen – he knew things about life, and if you listened you could learn 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But his words have become more scripted and controlled, resembling less a Hendrix guitar solo, full of improvisation, more a jazz musician riffing off a standard tune from the songbook. Donald Trump churns out the hits for fans as 2016 tour nears its end 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z On Volume 1, Herbert Wilson dips into the songbook of Texas giant Lightin’ Hopkins with a haunting version of “Hello Central,” which was recorded at the White Swan Cafe in Helena. Man releases Arkansas blues album 40 years later 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The British Invasion borrowed heavily from Berry’s songbook as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and many others recorded his songs on their earliest albums. Chuck Berry: from enduring Jim Crow to a comeback album at age 90 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Instead, Thile sees the great possibility of “Prairie Home” as presenting a vital and evolving American songbook. What’s ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ Without Garrison Keillor? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z We advanced moms sing from a different songbook: the Battle Hymn of the Geriatric Mother. Why Older Mothers Know Best 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Musicians gathered on street corners to play through his voluminous songbook, drawing crowds of strangers. Juan Gabriel’s Death, Like His Music, Brings Mexicans Together 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Replete with arranged sheet music and old songbook covers, the book would certainly be a joy for someone on the piano. Of Thee I Read: The United States in Literature 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Two things are particularly striking about the adoption of this new songbook. A Glimmer of Hope 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Nora Guthrie disputed the assertion about the 1945 songbook, saying that it was never sold or distributed to the general public, and that copies of it remained untouched in the Guthrie household long afterward. A Fight to Make ‘We Shall Overcome’ and ‘This Land Is Your Land’ Copyright Free 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z The great punk songbook is filled with extraordinary tunes about dull stress. For Governess, parental discretion is revised 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z She later cracked a bittersweet joke at her own songbook. Watch Adele's Touching Tribute To The Orlando Shooting Victims 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z It provided a generous overview of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band’s potent songbook, a retrospective with the tone of a well-earned victory lap. The Who: 50 and still fabulous in Anaheim 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z However, Aguilera lost the game in the end when she couldn’t sing or name any of Barbra Streisand’s songbook. There Is No Diva That Christina Aguilera Cannot Impersonate 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Whereas Haggard’s songbook is lined with numbers that provided poetic glimpses into ordinary life, Simpson is much more of an abstractionist. Sturgill Simpson: country music's young outlaw shifts shape again 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Here, he might as well be flipping through a Hank Williams songbook that he’s completely disconnected from. Review: ‘I Saw the Light’ peers into Hank Williams’ demons 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Based on the teaser of Glasper's take on the "In a Silent Way" deep-cut "The Ghetto Walk," this album will not be the typical look at the Davis songbook, and that's a good thing. Beyoncé and Bob Dylan lead new albums and tours, but will Frank Ocean re-appear? 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z It’s a quiet stadium all of a sudden, though Liverpool’s travelling support are currently banging out the Johnny Cash songbook. Manchester United 1-1 Liverpool (agg 1-3): Europa League – as it happened 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z He was scheduled to perform Thursday night in St. Petersburg, Florida, in a show featuring his father’s songbook. Frank Sinatra Jr. dies of cardiac arrest while on tour 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z With an instantly recognizable voice, she's explored the intersection of country, folk, the American songbook and balladry, all the while serving as a symbol of artistic independence. Neko Case, Laura Veirs and k.d. lang unite for new album -- and a date at the Greek 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z They decided to do a songbook album honoring Jerome Kern, who Bennett says inspired George Gershwin and all the other great American songwriters who came after him. Bennett showcases his jazz artistry on Grammy-nominated CD 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z But the musician admits he has come under pressure to copy his friend Rod Stewart by putting his spin on the great American songbook. Sir Elton John: 'My album is happy because I'm happy' - BBC News 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s a quiet stadium all of a sudden, though Liverpool’s travelling support are currently banging out the Johnny Cash songbook. Manchester United 1-1 Liverpool (agg 1-3): Europa League – as it happened 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Montenegrin classical guitarist Milos Karadaglic says he felt "tingles" when he recorded tunes from the Beatles songbook at the Abbey Road Studios where they laid down the tracks 50 years ago. Recording songs by the Beatles at Abbey Road gave Milos 'tingles' 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z But there he was on Wednesday night, skipping over his own formidable songbook in favor of lovelorn 1950's ballads made famous by the Chairman of the Board. Dylan does Sinatra his way on hallowed London stage 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z You'll hear bits of the pop songbook — "got it going on" or "ground control to Major Tom" — but they sound like Lana first and the referent second. Lana Del Rey and the Weeknd bring a welcome iciness to pop 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z The “proof”: a 1922 songbook containing “Happy Birthday” but no copyright, a finding that, Nelson and her attorneys argued, undermined Warner/Chappell’s claim to ownership. ‘Happy birthday’ to all of us: Judge gives world a gift, says song belongs to everyone 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z They continued to chase the tune and lyrics through forgotten songbooks, records of the British copyright office and long-settled lawsuits. How the 'Happy Birthday' song was set free 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z They later assigned their rights to Summy Co and it was published in a songbook called Song Stories for the Kindergarten. Happy Birthday: how popular song became public property 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Judge King’s 43-page decision delved into the complex history of the song — a paper trail of copyright registrations and yellowed songbooks that goes back more than a century. ‘Happy Birthday’ Copyright Invalidated by Judge 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z He said the songbook went back 25 years and contained songs written in the 19th Century. Lib Dems face 10 year recovery, says Sir Menzies Campbell - BBC News 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z Heartwarming family movie — the first of several planned movies that will be based on lyrics from Dolly Parton’s songbook. Fall TV Preview 2015: Every new show, the schedule for every returning show, and what’s worth watching When she picked up a songbook, he made his move with a line that went something like, “If you sing, I’ll play piano.” An Inquisition on Their First Date, and Then a Slow Burn 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z The opening notes seemed to blend seamlessly from last season’s songbook. Chelsea 2-2 Swansea City | Premier League match report 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z As part of the evidence submission last week, the plaintiffs included a paper trail showing how they tracked down the songbook. An Old Songbook Could Put ‘Happy Birthday’ in the Public Domain 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The existence of a band songbook of crude parodies first came to light in July 2014 after a university-led investigation into the band’s culture. Holocaust Victims Mocked in Ohio State Band Parody Songbook 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Band members also told investigators it was during these visits with alumni that they were first introduced to various versions of the songbook. The Battle for the Ohio State Band 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The lyrics were contained in a 2012 version of an unofficial band songbook, according to an article by The Wall Street Journal. Ohio State marching band song made fun of Holocaust victims 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Newman says the plaintiffs are prepared to argue that Warner knowingly hid the songbook. 'Happy Birthday' to whom? A simple song with a complex copyright history and lawsuit 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z In an eight-page court document filed Tuesday, attorneys for Warner say the songbook does not prove the expiration of a copyright. 'Happy Birthday' song could soon be free 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z In a statement, Ohio State said the songbook reflected the sort of “shocking behavior” that the school is “committed to eradicating from its marching band program.” Holocaust Victims Mocked in Ohio State Band Parody Songbook 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z The songbook was in documents handed over by the publisher this month, which were “mistakenly” not produced during the discovery period in the case, which ended more than year ago. World's most popular song is not under copyright, according to lawsuit 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Waters said he banned the songbook when he became director but it went underground among some band members. Ohio State marching band song made fun of Holocaust victims 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Rod Stewart has found tremendous success with this model by plumbing the great American songbook for five discs of standards. Why do pop singers like Lady Gaga keep releasing jazz albums? The upsides are tremendous. 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z When Nelson was 10 or 11, he cobbled together his own cowboy songbook of 12 original lyrics. Octogenarian, pot-smoking music legend 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But a second, more in-depth investigation of the band, commissioned by the school in late 2014, mentioned that the updated songbook contained a “highly offensive song regarding Jews,” although it didn't disclose the lyrics. Holocaust Victims Mocked in Ohio State Band Parody Songbook 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z As a startled rat escapes under a side door, they make a beeline to “Cowboy” Jonathon Brown’s songbook, where they’ll pick their tunes for the night. Saving lost souls on Skid Row with karaoke songs and coffee 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z As a startled rat escapes under a side door, they make a beeline to "Cowboy" Jonathon Brown's songbook, where they'll pick their tunes for the night. Saving lost souls on Skid Row with karaoke songs and coffee 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z James performs a male-appropriate selection of nine tunes from the Holiday songbook. New albums honor Billie Holiday on centennial of her birth 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Smith said that when she was assaulted in Iraq, she didn’t come forward to report it because of the environment cultivated by these songbooks. Military sex assault lawsuit aims to remove some commanders from overseeing cases 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z He said he knew of the songbook in the 1990s when he was a member of the band but that his predecessor, Jon Woods, had banned it. Holocaust Victims Mocked in Ohio State Band Parody Songbook 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Both sides showed admirable restraint in not filling their briefs with clever turns of phrase from the Taylor Swift songbook. Taylor Swift Trademark Primer -- Dozens Of Trademarks 'Belong With Me' 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Tamarack’s Kelly Elkins says musicians will perform songs from Dickens’ songbook. Little Jimmy Dickens to be honored in W.Va. in March 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z A metaphor for the uneven and desperate vibes that waft from his songbook? Here’s why the Jingle Ball should be more like ‘The Hunger Games’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z They’re the sound of an artist looking back to move forward as Dylan reinvents and recharges himself by exploring the American songbook with his backing group, which had not yet become the Band. A review of key musical box sets 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Waters was an assistant band director when the songbook was updated. Holocaust Victims Mocked in Ohio State Band Parody Songbook 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z “We met with the Red Scarf guys and went through their songbook so we can match what they’re doing,” Gallant said. Ottawa Senators Are Welcoming an N.H.L. Crowd in Soccer’s Image 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Its songs, with a folk rock sound and simple, accessible lyrics, pervade the Christian charts and have transformed the Christian songbook. Megachurch With a Beat Lures a Young Flock 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z He deserves for people to know his role as a chief architect of the Motown Sound and bard of the American romantic songbook, while remaining a vital, inspiring voice today. Review: ‘Smokey & Friends’ duets nice, not vital 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Your latest project, a digital recipe and songbook, is an interesting combination: music and food. Jewel is grounded in Alaska purity, focused on water purity 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z He kept us spellbound night after night with tales drawn from his imagination and selections from a tattered songbook. Colbert King: A father’s labor of love But first let me sing from the songbook of Daniel Pink, who wrote the book “To Sell is Human.” Persuasion: Fascinating Study Shows How to Open a Closed Mind 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z So to sum up: the tea party and the DNC are singing from the same analytical songbook. Eric Cantor Loses His Primary and the Spin Games Begin 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z "Ultimately, ridding football of anti-Semitism needs to involve Spurs fans voluntarily dropping the Y-word from their songbook." PM says Spurs chants not hate speech 2013-09-17T17:07:52Z Yes, “Good News!” is the show that added “The Best Things in Life Are Free” to the great American songbook, along with “Lucky in Love,” “The Varsity Drag” and the title ditty. | Connecticut: A Review of ‘Good News!’ in East Haddam 2013-05-18T06:02:50Z The future of both depends on cabaret’s reinvention into something more contemporary than a museum for the American songbook. Cabaret, and a Convention, Enter New Era 2012-09-29T21:43:03Z Most recently he joined the onetime Miles Davis bandmate Lenny White, who last month led an ensemble that mined the Davis songbook at Smoke in New York City. | Westchester: A Preview of Sunset Jazz at Lyndhurst, in Tarrytown 2012-07-27T23:34:19Z Built-in cabinets hold hundreds of music books representing the American songbook, “everything ever written,” Mr. Freund said. | Upper East Side: Habitats | Downsized, With Penthouse 2012-06-23T23:57:15Z The protesters — a mix of grandparents, 20-somethings, aging hippies and blue collar professionals — blew vuvuzelas and trumpets, jangled tambourines and passed out songbooks to gawking onlookers. The Splintering Campaign to Recall Scott Walker 2012-05-21T20:35:15Z The protesters—a mix of grandparents, twenty-somethings, aging hippies and blue-collar professionals—blew vuvuzelas and trumpets, jangled tambourines and passed out songbooks to gawking onlookers. Why the Coalition Trying to Recall Scott Walker Is Splintering 2012-05-21T12:06:33Z It is still performed as a standard of the German songbook, and a gorilla remains the emblem of the zoo. Berlin Journal: Berlin Journal: In Death as in Life, Knut the Polar Bear Draws Attention 2012-01-06T04:09:08Z With Feinstein, Cook plans to sing Irving Berlin — a songbook of his work sits on her piano’s music rack — Duke Ellington, and Rodgers & Hart, as well as Broadway hits and holiday classics. At 84, Barbara Cook not slowing down, with Kennedy Center Honor, a concert series and a memoir 2011-11-29T12:16:38Z For her set, Ms. Collins, who will share a bill with Arlo Guthrie on Dec. 10, will draw on a songbook rich in signature moments. | Westchester: Judy Collins and Stephen Stills Among Singers at Tarrytown 2011-10-08T15:16:29Z In lighter moments, General Dempsey has been known to reveal a fine Irish tenor, channeling his inner American songbook on such standards as “New York, New York.” Economy to Be a Challenge for New Military Chief 2011-10-02T17:41:04Z A moody 80-minute spin through the Rodgers and Hart songbook, “Ten Cents a Dance” will run at McCarter Theater Center in Princeton from Friday through Oct. Arts New Jersey: In New Jersey, a Fall Theatrical Season Full of Collaborations 2011-09-03T02:00:25Z "The Charmer: A Collection of Songs, chiefly such as are eminent for poetical merit; among which are many originals, and others that were never before printed in a songbook." English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) 2011-08-12T02:00:17.607Z These are singers that really mean something to me, and they are dealing with the American songbook. | Jonathan Schwartz: Spinning the American Songbook 2011-07-31T00:59:20Z The quality and consistency of Lucinda Williams’s songbook can lead one to think that somebody leaked her the cheat code for how to beat the songwriting game. Lucinda Williams at the 9:30 Club, making misery sound sublime 2011-03-16T22:02:54Z And, thanks to songbooks, records and the hootenanny boom, the black Christian petition for balm and righteousness became supplanted by a campfire paean to brotherhood. On Religion: Long Road From ?Come By Here? to ?Kumbaya? 2010-11-19T21:41:00Z “The graveyards and songbooks are full of people like you,” Alec had commented, a fact she had not disputed. David Bezmozgis: “The Train of Their Departure.” 2010-08-02T04:00:00Z To hear Cable singing so eagerly from the Tory songbook was dismaying. Vince Cable is a Neoliberal Democrat 2010-06-04T10:39:00Z In the evenings "Singsongs" are arranged, and hundreds of thousands of a popular Christian songbook have been sold. With our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War So saying, he gave her a songbook which he had picked up at the Bell. The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales Let us open one of the songbooks of the time, Dowland's Second Book of Airs, published in the central year of our period, 1600, and reprinted by Mr Arber. A History of Elizabethan Literature Never mind; what does the child's songbook say— "If at once you don't succeed, Try, try, try again." Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children All have songbooks in their hands and are going to church, and all the bells are ringing. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 For a preface to the songbook I recounted my first outstanding experience with the receptivity of Westerners to the quaintly devotional airs of the East. Autobiography of a Yogi Lastly, if he make the songbook, I put the learner's hand to the lute; and if he be the guide, I am the light. English literary criticism The answer to that was easy; at that time, high-school songbooks featured a well-known piece entitled "Darius Green and His Flying Machine." The Flying Saucers are Real It sounded so genuine that a little colour struggled into Aunt Julia's face as she bent to replace in the music-stand the old leather-bound songbook that had her initials on the cover. Dubliners There's not much ROmance to that love, anyway; it's not the kind they carry on about in songbooks. 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