New York Sheet MusNicewSsloectiteetr y VOLUME 29, NUMBERS1 INCwwwE.NYS1MS.o9rg 80 OCTOBER 2007 DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION OF CLASSIC RAINBOWS, RAINBOWS, AND MORE RAINBOWS!!!

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Our season ended on a high note on By Lynn DiMenna “Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead” and “If I Saturday, June 9th with a presentation by Only Had A Brain” sung with great the Yip Harburg Foundation called “The Necessity of enthusiasm and charm by the talented company. Rainbows…The Lyrics of Yip Harburg.” Conceived The second section focused on the from and produced by Deena Rosenberg, the wife of Yip’s Harburg’s other greatest musical, with music by son Ernie, and with reminiscences and opening Burton Lane, “Finian’s Rainbow” (1947). Once again, remarks by Ernie himself, the show featured the a video clip of Yip singing the famed “Look To the talented members of The Rainbow Troupe, including Rainbow” was a highlight of the afternoon. Other Ben Harburg, Yip’s grandson (center of photo above). highlights included NYU Grad student, Genevieve The other cast members included John Case, Koch’s and Fordham University student, John Case’s Gabrielle Georgescu, Libbie Jacobson, Genevieve rendition of “How Are Things in Glocca Morra” and Koch, Emma Moran and Anthony Ortiz. Jonathan Ben Harburg’s “When I’m Not Near the Girl That I Hadley and David Brunetti are to be congratulated Love.” respectively, for “putting it together” artistically, The program concluded with a definitive version musically and in a highly entertaining way. of “Look To the Rainbow” by the two “stars in the The program was broken down into two sections: making,” Genevieve Koch and John Case, and a the first, focusing on The Wizard of Oz (1939) opened finale of “Over The Rainbow” by Emma Moran, as with a video of Yip Harburg himself, singing his most adorable a “Dorothy” as you will ever hear! Members memorable , “Over the Rainbow.” Ernie then told of the cast and The New York Sheet Music Society several stories from a book he’s written, which were only too happy to join in on a song which has answered the question, “Who Put the Rainbow in the rightfully been named the “#1 Song of the 20th Wizard of Oz?” He spoke of his father’s fascination Century by the National Endowment for the Arts. As with rainbows and what’s on the other side, and he set you might expect, the audience knew EVERY word! up a sequence of “OZ” songs, i.e. “Munchkinland,” PAGE 2 NEW YORK SHEET MUSIC SOCIETY OCTOBER, 2007 New York Sheet Music Society President’s Message... A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION OFFICERS

PRESIDENT: It is hard to believe that summer is over and a new season of the New Linda Amiel Burns York Sheet Music Society is beginning on October 13th. It all went by so quickly... The Singing Experience had a wonderful summer show, Fun and 1st VICE PRESIDENTS: Fancy Free , at The Triad, and I even managed to take a delightful cruise to Lynn DiMenna & Sam Teicher Alaska, leaving from Vancouver, BC - something I’ve wanted to do for 2nd VICE PRESIDENTS: many years. I hope you all had a great summer! Robert Kimball & Sandy Marrone

We have a terrific 2007-2008 season planned, so remember to rejoin and TREASURER: tell your friends about the Society. We need new members to keep going. Glen Charlow 56 Garrison Ave., Jersey City, NJ 07306 People tell me that this is the best bargain in NY. Where else can you find musical treasures and enjoy nine great programs and newsletters for only a MEMBERSHIP: small membership fee? And, to make things even easier, you can now join Glen Charlow & Trudi Mann online! PROGRAMS & SPECIAL EVENTS: Elliott Ames & Sandi Durell We open the season with a bang! On October 13th - Steve Ross and Elizabeth Sharland on Noel MARKETING & PUBLIC RELATIONS: Coward - details on back page of this Newsletter. On November 10th - Laura Slutsky Penny Mann on composer David Mann . David and Penny met in the Brill Building and, of course, Penny knew my dad, who owned both The WEBSITE: Debi Smith Turf and Jack Dempsey’s restaurants. She wrote me once that he was the http://www.NYSMS.org working girl’s best friend, often picking up the check, breaking the bread sticks into the salad and giving good advice. Around holiday time he often NEWSLETTER EDITOR & PUBLISHER: presented a bottle of French perfume. Penny’s words brought back a lot of Jerry Laird memories of those great Tin Pan Alley days. [email protected] 214 Highland Ave., Norwalk, CT 06853

I would like to dedicate this season to John Wallowitch , who passed ASSISTANT EDITOR: away last month. He was a devoted member of the Society and a unique Joan Adams talent. I am so glad that we honored him with many special programs and also paid tribute to his life partner . I will miss John’s humor GRAPHIC DESIGNER: Glen Charlow and sparkle. I directed several acts with him as Musical Director - he was a [email protected] treasured friend and will be sorely missed. Rest in peace, my dear friend - in our minds you will always be 27! We welcome your comments. Information about performance dates, and other items you feel our readers will be interested in. Please be brief, & send Looking forward to seeing you all on October 13th at Local 802. it to the Editor at the address above.

Best wishes, Now you can Linda join or renew your membership ONLINE! October is It’s all right there, spelled out for you, in 3 easy steps! membership renewal time . Go to w w w . N Y S M S . o r g www.NYSMS.org to renew!! and follow the NEW link in the maroon bar. OCTOBER, 2007 NEW YORK SHEET MUSIC SOCIETY PAGE 3 Rachel Stone sent us information about the Community Cabaret that shows you how to see all 5 of their shows for only $30. To get the complete Member News... picture, contact Rachel on her website: [email protected] or call her 718 472 0472 . Where else can you see a show for only $6? She’s booked great talent: Camille Savitz, Michael Simeone, Jane Condon, Elizabeth Sharland will be one of the headliners at Charles Bloom …and those are just a few of her stars! The theater is located our October meeting, featuring her new book about Noel at the Community Church of New York – Unitarian Universalist, downstairs, Coward: Blue Harbour Revisited...A Gift from Noel Coward . 40 East 35th St., Doors open at 6:30 and shows begin promptly at 7. We The book is a sequel to her novel The Best Actress ...about an may have missed the first show on Sept 28th. The others are Nov 9, Jan 11, Oscar winning actress whose private life falls apart the night she wins the 2008, March 14, and May 16th. Sounds like a good deal. Oscar. She and a group of theatre people go on a holiday to stay at Noel Coward’s house, “Blue Harbour ”, in Jamaica .. Sharland went to stay there Scott Barbarino has a website www.CabaretExchange.com with features last year and was assigned Coward’s old bedroom. Her stay there stimulated and articles. her to write this novel. She includes a vivid description of the house and Coward’s life there. The place is now a Guest House and Coward’s things are still there, his books, pictures, photos etc.....but it is up for sale. So Lynn DiMenna will be doing a special concert at JASA on Oct 21st, and the anyone who wants to go there should go! At $100 a day with three meals DiMennaMania will be at the Laurie Beechman Theater on Nov 18th . included , it is a bargain.

Lynn DiMenna and Jeffrey C. Williams have resumed their weekly live Saint Peter’s Midtown Jazz at noon. Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church radio broadcasts, At The Ritz , on WVOF 88.5 FM from 3 to 5 pm on Fridays. Wednesdays at 1 PM Hosted by Ronny Whyte 54th & Lex Suggested Better still, here’s how to hear their show anytime you want: go to Donation: $5. http://www.attheritz.org/ and click on 24/7 It’s great any time!

Sept 5th : Barbara Carroll - Pianist / Singer, Jay Leonhart – Bass Joe Franklin and Steve Garrin have re-opened the Joe Franklin Comedy (http://perso.orange.fr/abakashi/Barbara_Carroll.htm)….Sept 12th : Bill Club at 761 7th Ave. (50th St.) Call 212 541-6592 for the schedule. Mays & The Inventions Tri Marvin Stamm on ˆ Flugelhorn, Alisa Horn on Cello (www.billmays.net) …Sept 19th : Christopher Gines - Singer (Our Sinatra & Singing Astaire co-creator & star) David Berk is at Tutto Bene Restaurant, 102-15 Metropolitan Ave., Forest (www.myspace.com/vocaliste2) …Sept 26th : Jed Feuer Trumpet Hills, Fridays and Saturdays at 7 pm. For reservations, call 718-375-3331 andFlugelhorn , Craig Swanson Piano or 718-520-9598.

Mel Miller offers five musicals for less than the price of one Broadway At our last board meeting Ronny White was named to the Sheet Music ticket, with his “Musicals Tonight.” Actually, this is a LOT less than some Society’s Advisory Board. And, he will be or was playing on Oct 2nd at 8 of the prices now!!! Call 212-468-4444 for information. & 9:30 at Sweet Rhythm , 887 th Ave S (at Bleecker St) with Ellen Starr singing with Ronny. On Bass: Boots Maleson ;. On guiar, John Hart ; On The Singing Experience Cable TV Show on MNN - Time Warner: Channel Drums: Alvester Garnett . 56 or RCN: Channel 111 Broadcasts are every other Sunday at 5:00PM.

Sheet Music Magazine always has wonderful tributes to The Great Trudi Mann’s Open Mic is now at the Butterfield Eight Restaurant, 5 East American Songbook. It includes sheet music for over a dozen songs. 38th Street:. 212-679-0646) from 1 to 5. If you’re gonna sing, bring two NYSMS member Ed Shanaphy (Publisher & Editor-In-Chief) makes sure copies of your muic. Sign in starts around noon. No cover, but the “hat’ is that each and every issue is equally wonderful. If you aren’t subscribing, passed on behalf of the . There is a minimum of $16. you should be. It’s $14.95 for each one-year subscription, Send to: Sheet Music PO Box 58629 Boulder, CO 80323-8629 Linda Amiel Burns’ Singing Experience for this fall, “Autumn Serenade” will be performing at the Triad on October 16th at 7:30 with Jon Delfin as Sheet Music Plus is the Internet’s biggest sheet music seller, with hundreds Musical Director. of thousands of titles to choose from. You can check the site outfor yourself at: www.SheetMusicPlus.com/store/tellfriendsite.html

Anthony DeFlorio e-mailed me to say he is listening to ’s new Martini Lounge Radio 1340 AM. This fabulous music has been away from BIG SHEET MUSIC SALE - If you want to be surrounded by a LOT of the Philadelphia radio dial far too long! Please help me spread the word sheet music, mark your calendars for SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5th and about this exciting new station. Tell your friends about our blend of classics attend the Allentown Paper Show, in Allentown, Pa. NYSMS member from , and Peggy Lee as well as terrific new Sandy Marrone will be set up at this show, offering thousands of sheets for artists Michael Buble’, Harry Connick Jr and Diana Krall. (scroll down). I sale. Besides Sandy, there will be over 170 other dealers in paper received this as e-mail and was asked to forward it to 10 friends in the area memorabilia, postcards and ephemera, many of them selling sheet music as and ask them to forward to 10 friends. So, if you happen to live in the well. You’ll be in sheet music heaven! If you’d like to attend, contact Sandy Philadelphia area, why not invite the whole City of Brotherly Love to listen for details: [email protected] or call 856-829-6104. to the NEW Martini Lounge Radio 1340 AM!

Paulette Attie received a great honor this past summer. She’s listed along with Hillary Clinton, Justice Ruth Ginsberg, Elizabeth Taylor, and Maya Angelou, among “America’s One Hundred Outstanding Women” in Maximillien de Lafayette’s best selling book, and the World Face to Face . She also received the ASCAP Plus Award (her seventh in a row !! !) and is busy completing her first book, Seven Keys to Live a Masterful Life .

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Laird’s Lair John Wallowitch dies at 27 Some people think that John was 81 when he died, but those of us who really knew him, know that that is a mistake. He was 27. Just 27. Others may have been “long of tooth,” and showed other So much has happened in the three months since my last signs of aging, but not John. Well, maybe John column that I don’t know where to start. So, I’ll start with the best. Julie Wilson and showed a few signs of aging, but not so anyone I went back to Omaha in June for our 65th High School reunion. We also went to would notice. Elves, leprechauns and imps don’t grade school together (Walnut Hill) and first year of college (University of Omaha , age. I first met John when he and Bertram Ross which is now part of Nebraska University) as well as Benson High. So did Katie Coric’s mother, and Nick Nolte, but they weren’t in our class.) Another member of were performing at Lucille Lortel’s White Barn in the class of ’42 was Jack Fierman who was an arranger, conductor and performer with Connecticut. I spoke to him, and it was as if I had Frank Sinatra, and FS Junior, and Steve & Edye…and others. As my friend and co- known him all my life. One of my wife’s member of the board of the NYSMS Lynn DiMenna says: “There must be something comments after talking to him that day, and after in the water in Omaha!” as there are a few others who were born or grew up in hearing his act, was “I’ll bet he was taught by Omaha: Fred Astaire (why not start at the top - or tap !), Johnny Carson, Henry and nuns when he went to school,” as she was. He the rest of the Fondas, Harold Lloyd (watch old movies), Tom Brokaw, Shirley Ross, was the perfect gentleman in an age when perfect Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Ruth Etting…and I’m sure I’ve left someone out. gentlemen were extinct. And, of course, it turned out that he was taught by nuns, and in Back to the reunion. Our friend Fierman played in his uncle’s band at the Paxton Philadelphia . Hotel in Omaha, and Julie (then Mary Lou) Wilson, sang with them. I think they were 13 or 14 years old. Remember: it was the Depression, and everyone worked if they could. There’s nothing like having a dream when you’re young of what you John had a unique ability to be funny and sad, want to be , and sticking with it. more or less at the same time - at least, in the same song. And when he was funny, he was very, Like every other season, not everything this summer was joyful. Unfortunately, very funny. And when he was sad, it was very, death is a major part of life. Two close friends and NYSMS members died: Eric very touching. He could write a song about Anderson and John Wallowitch. anything, or everything, or nothing. One of my friends is named Laura Slutsky, and when John Eric’s service was held at the Episcopal met her and heard her sing, said “Oh, my God! Church n Woodbury, Ct, which is (according to Quest), one hour and ten minutes from my With a name like that you’ve got to be a star!” house in Rowayton, Ct. And, it was. The And so he wrote a song called (you’ve guessed!) service was exactly what a funeral should be: a “Laura Slutsky,” with that line about being a star tribute to Eric’s life, not his death. One could in it. If I had to pick my favorite Wallowitch feel his presence in each fantastic eulogy. No song, I couldn’t. One of my favorites, however, - more than that: With each conversation I had is “There used to Be…” which talks about the loss with the citizens of Woodbury (I think they of things that we used to have, like love and were ALL there! What a community!) , Eric music, and which concludes with the fact that that truly was there. just can’t be true: they will never be just “used to be.” One thing I knew about Eric was that he was very, very proud of his family: his parents, his siblings, and his cousins. After hearing them during the ceremony, and meeting many Some say he was 81. Some say he’s gone. I of them, the feeling was mutual. Lots of remembrances about Eric were don’t choose to believe either of these things. shared…funny, touching, memorable…One outstanding thing I remember about him was that whenever he met someone, he would proudly add, after saying his name, “…my father wrote ‘Sleigh Ride,’ Leroy Anderson.” If you knew Eric, you knew he knew more about jazz and swing recordings than most of the people who were performing on the discs of the late Twenties through the Fifties. So, appropriately, the Funky But Jazz band performed before, during and after the ceremony. Another thing about Eric is that he had a tendency to over -explain things. His anecdotes never ended: one would just have to find an appropriate exit line and walk away. I wish there were an appropriate exit line now.

(Next year will mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Eric’s father, Leroy Anderson. In the Spring, we hope to present a Leroy Anderson meeting that will be produced and performed by his family and friends.) OCTOBER, 2007 NEW YORK SHEET MUSIC SOCIETY PAGE 5

ERIC ANDERSON 1947 - 2007 WOODBURY, CT - Eric Russell Anderson, 60, died unexpectedly July 2 , 2007, at home at 33 Grassy Hill Road, Woodbury. For the past 25 years, he had lived with diabetes and its complications. He was the son of Mrs. Eleanor Anderson, with whom he lived, and the late Leroy Anderson. Eric was born June 29, 1947 , in Brooklyn, NY, and came with his parents to Woodbury, CT, to live permanently in 1949. They first lived on Painter Hill Road and then moved to 33 Grassy Hill Road in 1953. He attended Mitchell Elementary School through 4th grade, but because Eric needed special education, then not available at Woodbury public schools, he attended the Woods Schools in Langhorne, PA. After moving back to Woodbury, he worked at various jobs in nearby towns. In the early 1970’s , he worked for several years as a custodian at Nonnewaug High School, then at Mitchell Elementary School. Despite his lack of formal education and failing eyesight in recent years, Eric was an avid reader of newspapers and a self-educated expert in the era of Big Band and Dixieland Jazz music. He could identify who played which instrument in whose band on which track and name the recording label as well. His passion for music led him to build an extensive collection of LP ’s and 78’s. He was an active member of Eric and his mother, Eleanor and important contributor to a record collectors’ research group that met in and the New York Anderson. Sheet Music Society, whose monthly meetings he attended regularly. For many years he worked at the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Fair in Woodbury in the music section where he sold records and audio tapes. A devoted son, Eric often introduced himself to strangers as the son of Leroy Anderson, the composer of “Sleigh Ride.” In recent summers Eric traveled alone to stay at the Manisses Hotel on Block Island, RI, where he enjoyed the unique small-town flavor, general ambiance and restaurants , and where he viewed almost everyone as a friend. He had been looking forward to a return trip to Block Island later this summer. In addition to his mother, Eric leaves a sister and brother-in-law, Jane and Peter Vercelli of Block Island, RI; a brother and sister-in-law, Rolf and Sharon Anderson of Montgomery Center, VT; a brother and nephew , Kurt Anderson and Ivan Anderson of Roxbury, CT ; two nephews, Anders Vercelli of Boston, MA, and Lars Vercelli of New York, NY, and two first cousins Mark Anderson and David Anderson, both of Woodbury, CT. A memorial service was held Sunday, July 15 , 2007, at 3 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Woodbury, CT. Music was performed by Connecticut State Troubadour Pierce Campbell and the Funky Butt Jazz Band whose style of music Eric especially liked. Burial at the New North Cemetery, Woodbury, was private. Memorial contributions may be made to the Block Island Medical Center or the Mary D Fund.

JOHN WALLOWITCH 1926 - 2007 By STEPHEN HOLDEN Published: August 16, 2007 New York Times John Wallowitch, a cabaret singer and prolific songwriter who was a colorful figure in the New York cabaret world for more than 40 years, died August 15th in the Bronx. He was 81. His death was confirmed by his sister, Anna Mae, who said he had been suffering from bone cancer. He died in hospice care at Calvary Hospital. The composer of more than 2,700 songs (by his own count, the majority unpublished), Mr. Wallowitch was a familiar face on New York television, beginning John Wallowitch, right, and his partner, in 1980 with his cable-access show, “John’s Cabaret,” in which he played piano, Bertram Ross, in 2002 sang and joked. With his owlish face, oversize glasses, bow tie and sly Cheshire cat grin, he was the dandified embodiment of a traditional piano man and seemed to know every obscure show tune ever written. He specialized in little-known songs. In 1984 he created a cabaret act with his partner, Bertram Ross, a former star dancer for Martha Graham, that told their combined life stories in a breezy, nostalgic mixture of song, storytelling and banter. It became the centerpiece of a 1999 documentary film about their shared lives, “Wallowitch and Ross: This Moment,” directed by Richard Morris. As a composer and lyricist, Mr. Wallowitch belonged to the Noël Coward-Cole Porter school of songwriting that reveled in word play and barbed social observation. One of his most famous songs, “Bruce,” popularized by , offers facetious tips to a clueless drag queen, including “Don’t ever wear puce, Bruce,” “You have to reduce, Bruce” and “Wear something loose, Bruce.” But he also wrote touching songs of friendship and late-night introspection, including “Come a Little Closer” and “This Moment,” both staples in the repertory of his close friend Dixie Carter. To hear Ms. Carter sing those ballads in a nightclub with Mr. Wallowitch at the piano was to be transported into an early-60s Manhattan, aglow with wistful, candlelit sophistication. Other artists who recorded and performed his work included Tony Bennett, Shirley Horn, Karen Akers, Morgana King, Joyce Breach, Marlene VerPlanck, Eric Comstock, Joanne Beretta and Lynn Lobban. Mr. Wallowitch grew up in an industrial area of , attended Temple University and moved to New York to study classical piano at the Juilliard School while supporting himself as a rehearsal pianist and vocal coach. After touring Europe for the State Department as a classical pianist, he gave up the concert stage to became a nightclub performer and then worked regularly in small Manhattan clubs including the Duplex, the Ballroom and Danny’s Skylight Room. He began songwriting in earnest in 1960 with his satire of the music business, “Cheap Decadent Drivel.” After Mr. Ross’s death in 2003, Mr. Wallowitch continued to perform and to write amusing songs on virtually any subject that tickled his fancy. Besides his sister, Anna Mae, he is survived by his brother, Paul. His albums include “Back on the Town” (DRG), “Wallowitch and Ross” (Original Cast Records) and “My Manhattan” (DRG). PAGE 6 NEW YORK SHEET MUSIC SOCIETY OCTOBER, 2007 Singer’s Singers...

CD Reviews by Dan Singer

Mae West Kathy Jenkins “Come Up And See Me Some Time” “Swing Madness” Living Era 5604 www.Sanctuary.com NLO 2003 www.nlorecords.com

There are 18 soundtracks from her six Within Kathy Jenkins powerful eleven- films supplemented with an additional song program led by her most talented dozen in studio recordings from 1947 husband’s big band Nick Levinovsky and 1954 making this rewarding there’s an additional wildly progressive collection a cornucopia of many musical 7-minute scat sung vocal called “Swing sounds. All that’s missing is her visual censurable pre-code Madness Medley”. It’s a blazing red-hot tribute to the never shenanigans. She was the original and left little to your forgotten bands of Ellington and Basie. Kathy mesmerizes on imagination. When you play this cd make sure there’s a fire “That Old Black Magic” (Arlen/Mercer). She’s on top of it with extinguisher handy. Many other saucy songbirds have Mae to her dramatic reading of this classic. The Gershwins’ “Someone thank for their success. Interestingly you can hear her being To Watch Over Me” receives a tender tranquil reading by supported by the great orchestra of Duke Ellington from Kathy and it’s alluring. Kathy ever so carefully and 1934’s “Belle Of The Nineties” as well as Xavier Cugat from wondrously sings Ray Noble’s “The Very Thought Of You”. The 1936’s “Go West Young Man”. Oh yes the extensive liner notes benefit of big band singing nowadays is unfortunately, due to are very well researched and written by our Editor/Publisher its cost, something rather extinct. But not here! Together Gerry Stonestreet. Kathy and her husband make it all happen.

Caterina Valente Nelson Riddle “Live 1968” “Sing A Song With Riddle” Eraki 6003 www.eraki.com DRG 19097 www.drgrecords.com

Time stands still for this charmer. As a first for this all vocal/standards Caterina outshines in this classy classic column I would love to expose you to a one-of-a-kind performance. The word live most special 12 song non-vocal reissue. often conveys less than it’s true This is an extraordinary collection of definition. Here in supersonic fidelity standards to be sure, however one thing you are front row center for a concert of a lifetime. There’s a is missing and that is YOU. Yes this is your chance to say, I remarkable scat vocal on Benny Goodman’s “Air Mail sang with the genius behind Sinatra, Cole, and Garland. Special”which will have you almost out of breath. Jobim’s “One Imagine having the skillful Nelson Riddle accompany you. Just Note Samba” is treated as a monumental impressive work of put that in your resume. Not bad huh? I no longer have to open art. It’s an unforgettable respectful crucial performance. She my refrigerator for a spotlight to do 20 minutes accapella. As sings out “Falling In Love”(Rodgers/Hart) in a thundering take an inducement, not that one is needed, DRG has added in it’s no prisoners rendition that you just won’t believe. Her hits initial first time release ever a vigorous 12 song Nelson Riddle “Malaguena” (Banks/Lecuona) and “Breeze and I” release from the Capitol Vaults. It’s called “Hey Diddle Riddle” (Stillman/Lecuona) are sung even more impressively than and it’s also from 1959. Nelson splendidly and energetically when she sung them in 1955 and 1956 on the Decca label. covers children nursery rhymes and songs. Caterina easily goes up and down the scales surpassing most other fine divas. I’d love to see Morgana King, Cleo Laine, and Caterina go at it from the same stage at the same time. That Next month - Reviews on Danny Kaye, Bob would be a true music spectacular. Until then there’s this very Stewart, Maurice Hines & Ann Hampton Callaway lively live 1968 performance for us to treasure.

From our president ... Linda Amiel Burns : Special Theater Discounts for NYSMS Members! We know that you love a good deal, so in association with Marna Mintzer and MGM Consulting, NYSMS members are being offered Broadway & Off Broadway theatre ticket discounts of approximately 48% or more off retail, plus arts event ticket discounts ranging from 30-50% off. For show updates and ordering information, call 212-935-2664 to hear what is available and please mention your special Membership code # A1. Offerings change frequently so phone the Hotline and listen carefully to the many choices currently available . OCTOBER, 2007 NEW YORK SHEET MUSIC SOCIETY PAGE 7

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