All the Way: The Music of Jimmy Van Heusen & Friends
Sixteen year old disc jockey, Edward Chester Babcock (1913-1990), unhappy with his given name, was inspired to change it to Van Heusen when [...]
The Mabel Mercer Foundation
Mabel’s Babies – An American Songbook Competition
Background Adela and Larry Elow, long banner-carrying supporters of American Songbook in the put-your-money-where-your-heart-is vein *, [...]
Marilyn Maye with Will Friedwald and Harvey Granat – Sparkling
In what we can only hope will turn into a series, raconteur/historians Will Friedwald and Harvey Granat, both of whom have their own [...]
Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of Cabaret
Dedicated to “The First Lady of The American Keyboard” Barbara Carroll (1925-2017) This Third night of Mabel Mercer Foundation’s 28th [...]
Opening Night: The 28th New York Cabaret Convention
Who better to open The Mabel Mercer Foundation’s annual New York Cabaret Convention than the woman Artistic Director KT Sullivan can [...]
That’s Entertainment: Dietz & Schwartz and Friends
The Mabel Mercer Foundation’s annual summer concert celebrated composer Howard Dietz (1896-1983) and lyricist Arthur Schwartz [...]
Saluting Sylvia Syms
“She lifted the art of life and sang to the height of excellence…” Rex Reed Helmed by journalist/author Rex Reed, her intimate [...]
The 27th New York Cabaret Convention: Opening Night
And so they gather once again like migrated birds instinctively drawn to the annual Cabaret Convention, the smorgasbord of an art still [...]
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