The Songbook Sundays series, created and hosted by Deborah Grace Winer, continues November 20 at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club with an evening celebrating the songs of the late American composer Irving Berlin.
Entitled Always Irving Berlin, the 5 PM and 7:30 PM performances feature Obie winner Darius de Haas (Rent, Carousel, Running Man), Grammy winner Debby Boone, and Ana茂s Reno. Attendees can expect to hear such Berlin classics as "Cheek to Cheek," "There鈥檚 No Business Like Show Business," "Let鈥檚 Face the Music," "Let Yourself Go," and more.
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Music director Joe
Davidian leads a band that features Jay Leonhart
on bass, Jerome Jennings on
drums, and Abdias Armenteros on tenor saxophone.
Winer said in an earlier statement, 鈥淲e鈥檙e thrilled that our new Songbook Sundays shows have immediately become so wildly popular. The world now is such a giant 'Yikes'鈥攂ringing musicians, vocalists, and audiences together at Dizzy鈥檚 for the pure joy of it is a happy, healing balm, and we couldn鈥檛 have imagined how much fun we鈥檇 have making this new community. We鈥檙e so happy Songbook Sundays will continue in 2023. It鈥檒l be a blast.鈥�
Best known for contributing the songs to the Golden Age musical Annie Get Your Gun, Berlin was an iconic fixture in the Great American Songbook, responsible for such standards as "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Easter Parade," "Puttin' on the Ritz," "Cheek to Cheek," "White Christmas," "There's No Business Like Show Business," and "God Bless America." More recently on Broadway, Berlin's music has been heard in stage adaptations of the films Holiday Inn and White Christmas, both including songs written for those films along with other songs from the Berlin catalogue.
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