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VOLUME 38, NUMBER 1 Formerly New York Sheet Music Society www.APSSinc.org OCTOBER 2016 AARON WEINSTEIN: A PALETTE OF JAZZ AND BOW TIES By Jerry Osterberg The late writer and lyricist Gene music of all kinds, everything from Lees once wrote: “There was a time rock & roll to . They were not when popular music was good and musicians, but introduced their good music was popular.” In a youngest son to the entire spectrum similar vein, Dave Frishberg, in through recordings. He soon lamenting the absence of quality embraced jazz, teaching himself to violinists in the jazz arena, added: play the violin by listening to icons “There’s Joe Venuti, Eddie South, such as Grappelli, Venuti, and Les Stuff Smith, Stephane Grappelli, Paul. By the time he reached high followed by decades of silence…and school, he was playing well enough now there’s Aaron Weinstein.” to join the jazz band. So, it was no surprise that Aaron At the age of fifteen, Aaron was invited to close the 2015-2016 recorded a demo and sent it around season of the American Popular Song to a number of musicians, including Society, performing on June 11, John Pizzarelli, the son of guitar 2016. This was his second legend Bucky Pizzarelli. Referring to appearance at APSS, having the younger of the two, Aaron said: participated in a revue a few years “…he actually responded. He called ago. Accompanied by the ever me up and was wildly encouraging. popular Jon Weber, himself a Through John I met Bucky and sparkling virtuoso, the humorous and played my first gig with him when I clearly gifted violinist filled the room was sixteen or so.” He largely with unbridled joy and APSS learned his craft from the Pizzarellis members responded with the by playing on the job. Although he exuberant enthusiasm they’re noted didn’t always know every song, for. Their instruments conversing as Aaron would rush home and practice if old friends, Wienstein and Weber until his repertoire was eventually guided the audience through a colorful language all could extensive enough to accompany Bucky for an entire show. understand. The tunes flowed with what seemed to be Luckily for Aaron, his high school administration was effortlessness, incorporating crowd pleasers such as “The Best agreeable to allowing him to occasionally miss class in order Things in Life Are Free,” “Sweet Sue,” and “Avalon.” to play a gig with mentor, Bucky. Evidently, Aaron’s jazz band Called “the Groucho of the violin” by , I director persuaded the principal to do so on the strength of his would suggest there’s more than a bit of Jack Benny in Aaron impressive contribution to the band’s string section. Indeed, Weinstein, certainly for his style of deadpan humor if nothing permission may well have been granted on the strength of a else. Having recently turned thirty, Aaron has been playing for self-directed project which Aaron conceived and executed. twenty years, ever since his parents gave him a fiddle for his With the approval of the director, Aaron organized a well- ninth birthday. He once told an interviewer that what he had received tribute to Stephane Grappelli, collaborating with a actually wanted was a flute, not a violin, apparently mixing guitarist and bassist. them up. Supposedly disappointed, the newly minted musician During his senior year, he was asked to participate in what picked up the instrument nevertheless, his dreams of being a came to be his first professional recording. Besides the flutist obviously dashed. Pizzarellis, the Legends project included Skitch Henderson, Aaron was born in Chicago to parents who simply loved Continued on page 3 PAGE 2 AMERICAN POPULAR SONG SOCIETY OCTOBER, 2016 President’s Message... American Popular Linda Amiel Burns, President Song Society Board Of Directors: Welcome to the 2016-2017 Season of the American Popular Song Linda Amiel Burns Society! Hope you all had a good summer, and that you are now President

ready for Autumn in New York. In July, I managed to get in a great Lynn DiMenna trip on a small ship to Greece, Albania, Montenegro and Croatia; I felt very lucky to Sandi Durell see that interesting part of the world. This is my 20 th year as your president 1st Vice Presidents st (following 10 years as 1 VP), and in the last 30 years we have all seen many changes Joan Adams in the world of music. I am excited about our continued growth, and the name change Sandy Marrone 2nd Vice Presidents has made it clear that we are about much more than sheet music. APSS is now so popular that we have been able to book the entire season way ahead of time. There is Glen Charlow Treasurer & Membership now a waiting list for people who want to present programs for us! Marilyn Lester Corresponding Secretary We will open the season on Saturday afternoon, October 8 th with a great program Bill Boggs produced by our Board Member Sandi Durell, featuring Michael Colby, the author of Will Friedwald The Algonquin Kid. Michael began writing chapters for Sandi’s acclaimed site, Michael Lavine ------Theater Pizzazz , about his life growing up in his grand parents’ hotel, The Algonquin. Publicist These chapters eventually became a very well-reviewed book, which will be available Richard Skipper Celebrates [email protected] for purchase, and which Michael will autograph for you. This will be an interesting afternoon of merriment, memories, and entertainment! Programs & Special Events Elliott Ames Sandi Durell This is the first Newsletter of the new season, and you will note that there is a Tom Toce member form on page 6 which you may give to someone to join. The form is for APSS Official Photographer: NEW members only. You do not need to fill out the form to renew - just send your Rose Billings check to Glen at the address on the form. Our dues are very reasonable, and have not Graphic Designer, Web Guy been raised in nearly two decades. For only $50 you can attend amazing Glen Charlow programs and receive nine informative Newsletters. You can either rejoin online at N E W S L E T T E R www.APSSinc.org , or mail in the printed form with a check. Please be sure to bring Editor/Publisher: Jerry Osterberg [email protected] in new members and tell your friends and family about our amazing Society! Contributing Editor: Marilyn Lester [email protected] I am looking forward to Associate Editor: Joan Adams [email protected] seeing many of you on Graphic Designer: Glen Charlow October 8 th at The [email protected] Musician’s Hall of Local Membership Mailing Address: 802. American Popular Song Society P.O. Box 5856 Best regards to you all, Pikesville, MD 21282 [email protected] Linda (212) 315-3500 (Linda A. Burns)

(l-r) Richard Skipper, Jon Weber, Mark Walter, Jerry Osterberg, Photos by Rose Billings Aaron Weinstein, Will Friedwald, Glen Charlow

MEETING LOCATION: Local 802 – Musicians’ Hall 322 West 48th Street. Program: 1:45 – 3:30PM. Come early to look thru Sheet Music & CD’s & stuff, all FREE. OCTOBER , 2016 AMERICAN POPULAR SONG SOCIETY PAGE 3 Jay Leonart, and Johnny Frigo. The seventeen year old marvel have brought him to his present level of success, among them got a day away from academia and helped to advance the canon Don Stierberg, with whom he studied mandolin, he especially of jazz another step. Over the next dozen years, Aaron credits Bucky and John Pizzarelli as having the greatest accumulated a most impressive collection of performances as influence. “They shaped my entire music sensibility. No two a featured soloist: , the Kennedy Center, Jazz at people have been more influential,” Aaron has answered Lincoln Center, Birdland, Blue Note, and abroad at jazz whenever he’s been asked. festivals in England, France, Switzerland, Iceland, and Israel. In In his website, there’s a lovely portrait of Aaron Weinstein addition, he’s worked with Linda Lavin, Les Paul, Jon at rest. He seems to be wearing a smoking jacket. There’s an Hendricks, Annie Ross, and rock guitarist Jay Geils. Aaron has open book with a blue cover, although no title is visible. In one been equally busy on the recording scene, making several of hand is an orange colored meerschaum pipe, genus calabash, his own CD’s. He’s also collaborated on record with Christine similar to the type smoked by Sherlock Holmes and Santa Ebersole, Jessica Molaskey, Frank Vignola, Bucky Pizzarelli, Claus. Inconspicuous beneath Aaron’s chin rests a bow tie. and John Pizzarelli, arranging for Ebersole, as well as for Lavin Given that he admits to being a bow tie activist, the presence of and Janis Siegel. the tie is not surprising. What is a bit disconcerting is the rather Upon graduation from high school, Aaron went off to the subdued color. It’s almost as if the pale yellow tie had been Berklee College of Music, the beneficiary of a talent-based full painted in as an afterthought. I suppose we’ll never know for scholarship. Undoubtedly, his hands-on education while sure, although it must be said that Aaron now wears a sprightly playing the paid gigs with modern masters, informed his and bright bow tie in every appearance. experience at Berklee and vice versa, further accelerating the While Aaron Weinstein shares his exotic taste for bow ties steepness of the learning curve and his growing reputation. with Winston Churchill, Soupy Sales, the Duke of Windsor, and About this, Aaron has said: “Talk about an education – that’s of course, Groucho Marx, none of them had the knack to play the kind of thing you can’t get in the practice room.” a jazz fiddle as well, and that is all we need to know. Although Aaron has given praise generously to those who

Kerr), opera and made her solo debut at age 17 MARNI NIXON: () and with the under (Audrey conductor . She Hepburn). returned to opera throughout her career, A SINGER (AND MORE) Born in Altadena, mastering many roles and appearing with in 1930, the Los Angeles, Seattle and San UNTIL LATE UNSUNG with perfect pitch and Francisco and at the Tanglewood by Marilyn Lester the ability to read even Festival, among others. In 1948 Nixon The remarkable life of Margaret the most complicated music, Nixon sang the voices of the angel chorus in the Nixon McEathron, aka Marni Nixon, began working at a very early age, and film Joan of Arc, and thence began her came to its conclusion on July 24, 2016, once in motion, never stopped. Her amazing career. In 1954, Nixon so ending the amazing career of the output was prolific, yet her fame never appeared on Broadway in the musical, former child actress who achieved really matched the tremendous and in the early success on the concert stage, in accomplishments she achieved. It was 1960s was Eliza Doolittle in a City recordings, on film, and in television, only after My Fair Lady in1964 that Center revival of My Fair Lady. Her first opera and musicals. Nixon also was a Nixon got some level of public on-screen appearance was as Sister violinist, author and educator, but she recognition for her previously secret Sophia in the 1965 film of The Sound of was best known for her ability to dub dubbing work, with a profile in Time Music. singing voices, which she famously did magazine. Nixon developed a healthy concert for the films ( Deborah Classically trained, Nixon studied career, appearing with the New York PAGE 4 AMERICAN POPULAR SONG SOCIETY OCTOBER, 2016 Philharmonic as well as giving solo 2006, with Stephen Cole, she published recitals at major venues such as her autobiography, I Could Have Sung Carnegie and Alice Tully Halls, and All Night. with major symphony Nixon was married three times: to throughout the United States and composer , from 1950 to Europe. She was a guest artist for 1969, with whom she had three children; several of ’s Young to Dr. Lajos “Fritz” Fenster from 1971 to People’s Concerts. She also toured, 1975; and to musician Albert Block from developed a act and made 1983 to his death in 2015. Although she records – plenty of them – under her survived breast cancer in 1985 and 2000, own name. As an educator, Nixon she finally succumbed to the disease. It taught at the California Institute of the seems only death could stop this Arts in Santa Clarita and at the Music ceaselessly energetic Renaissance Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. woman. The extraordinary Marni Nixon She also hosted Boomerang, a Seattle deserves the spotlight, and to be children’s television show, which remembered as one of the most garnered her four Emmy awards. In accomplished talents of our age.

musical, I strove to create characters and REMEMBERING MARNI NIXON: inhabit them, so that what came out of my fingers onto the page was not what I would say, but what the characters A PERSONAL RECOLLECTION would. Marni did this very same thing by Stephen Cole whether she was creating an operatic “You are the writer, but I am the needed to do, merge the two ghosts, but character on the stage, or pushing author!” When famed ghost-singer Marni this time with words on a page. After all, gorgeous sounds out of the lips of Kerr, Nixon said those words to me, her the story was Marni’s, but if I was to Wood, Hepburn, or even Marilyn ghostwriter, I didn’t quite understand successfully ghost (let me say up front Monroe (yes, she did dub two lines of how any of it would work. I had written that, although the contract might say Marilyn’s famous “Diamonds are a Girl’s previous books on my own, but had “ghostwriter”, Marni Nixon, who was Best Friend” track). Before I could write never been a ghostwriter before. And a line I had to, ironically, find Marni’s aren’t they one and the same: author and real voice. Not the voices she so cleverly writer? What I eventually learned from would use to make a living, not even the that “Marni-ese” was that it was all about voice that she used when singing as collaboration. Over the course of a year herself, but the voice of the woman who and a half of intense back and forth work lived in , shopped at on her memoirs, I Could Have Sung All Fairway and Citarella, auditioned for Night , I came to realize that Marni Nixon shows, and as a voice teacher taught was the consummate collaborator. some of the best singers in the world. The I had always marveled at how “the woman who had raised a family, been ghostess with the mostest,” as Time through three marriages, and still, at the magazine dubbed her, was able to fuse denied credit for her big movie ghosting age of seventy six years old, juggled all her voice with , and how jobs, always intended that her ghost these lives better than anyone I had seen she morphed herself into not only the would get credit! And I do! ) For Marni’s in quite a while. I also had to find the vocal role of Anna in the film version The book, I would have to do just as Marni voice of the little girl she used to be, so King and I , but also Deborah Kerr’s had done so many times: become a that we could begin to solve the interpretation of that role itself. Now that chameleon. I would have to somehow be mysteries of her drive and ambition. I was to write about that brilliant Marni Nixon, at least for eighteen Without my experience as a dramatist, I synthesis of talents (not to mention her months. This required skills that each of am not sure I would have been able to famous collaborations with Natalie Wood us had cultivated, both of us having been accomplish this. Without Marni’s and on West Side Story trained for the stage: she as an actress and experience as a generous and open and My Fair Lady respectively), I me as librettist and lyricist. human being, I am sure I would not. realized that this was exactly what I Whenever I sat down to write a At first I was presented with a huge OCTOBER, 2016 AMERICAN POPULAR SONG SOCIETY PAGE 5

stack of tapes and transcripts of Cole became Marni Nixon, the heroine ghost” there to help her translate it into interviews that were made by a previous of I Could Have Sung All Night . words and sentences and paragraphs and ghost whose career didn’t materialize. I So, author or writer? What was I? chapters. could tell from the annoyed tone of the Even there the lines blurred, for Reading I Could Have Sung All voices on tapes that a lack of sometimes, without thinking about it, we Night today, I am taken back to 1956, and collaboration would soon be its downfall. reversed roles. Sometimes Marni would The King and I is being projected on the I was right. Two ghosts later, I was on come up with the most perfect way of screen. There is only one Anna singing deck. Although the tapes and transcripts expressing what I could only imagine and and dancing with Yul Brynner’s King. were helpful, I knew that I needed to she would be the writer. Then I would But she is a mixture of Deborah Kerr and bond with Marni. We needed to talk, to take what she wrote and structure it so Marni Nixon. The fact that the line is banter, to laugh. I needed to get deep that it fit into how I wanted the story to be undetectable is the art of it all: the art of inside of her character. Just as Marni told, making me the author. From this Marni Nixon. And the fact that the ghost shadowed Deborah Kerr in 1955 as she confusion, which was not confusing to us and “the ghost’s ghost” were able to walked the sets of The King and I so that at all, a brand new person emerged in our achieve the same feat? Well, when we she could know what Anna was doing back and forth emails. Not the seventy first began this journey I would have while she sang, fifty years later, in my six year old Marni Nixon, who needed responded, as Yul Brynner’s King did, “is own way, I shadowed Marni so that I her vast clipping file to remember what a puzzlement!” But now that it’s all said could know how she would tell her life she did in June of 1955, but the Marni and done, it seems as simple and story. Eventually, both Marni in 1955 and Nixon who breathed life on the page, inevitable as the polka that Kerr and Stephen in 2005 achieved our goals: we who told us stories that delighted, Brynner (with Marni’s help) did in the each collaborated so closely with another enlightened and enriched. The Marni film. Which, as we all know, takes lots of person that it was impossible to see who could look at her whole life in a way practice. Thank you, Marni, for asking where one left off and the other that perhaps the real Marni would not me, “Shall we dance?” continued. Just as Nixon and Kerr have dared to without a deadline looming became Anna Leonowens, Nixon and before her and without “the ghost’s

Case, was appointed one of THE ALGONQUIN HOTEL: the receivers to manage the establishment. Case (who A MAGNIFICENT AND actually named the hotel) was essentially responsible for the ENDURING LEGEND evolution of the Algonquin by Marilyn Lester almost from the beginning. He took over the lease in 1907 Long before the Starett. It shared the block with and wound up buying the Algonquin Kid led the life of a other notable institutions such storied hostelry in 1927, male Eloise at the fabled hotel, as the New York Yacht Club, presiding over it until his death the Algonquin had already the Harvard Club and the Bar in 1946. It was at this point that become legendary. In fact, the Association. The Algonquin Michael Colby’s grandparents, Algonquin has had more was also strategically the Bodnes. purchased the connections to the arts than any positioned across from the hotel and undertook an other hotel in the history of important and massive extensive restoration and New York City. For over a Hippodrome theater renovation of it. Algonquin in 1907 century, the hotel has hosted (demolished in 1939). The first Frank Case was a savvy writers, editors, actors, and owners of the hotel were steward of the Algonquin, and Pemberton. Toohey and other denizens of the arts and Albert T. and Ann Stetson under his leadership many of Pemberton decided to host a show business on an epic scale Foster of Buffalo, New York. the traditions of the hotel were “welcome home” luncheon for – one that has already gone But shortly after the Algonquin established or cultivated. First their friend, the critic down in multiple history opened, Ann Foster left her and foremost of these was the Alexander Woollcott, who had books. husband, suing him for famously waggish Round recently returned from the The Algonquin Hotel was ownership of the property. It Table, which was inadvertently battlefields of World War I. built on the Fifth to Sixth was during these legal started in 1919 by two The guest list would include Avenue block of 44th Street in proceedings that the Broadway publicists, John friends and associates: 1902, designed by Goldwin Algonquin’s manager, Frank Peter Toohey and Murdock journalists Franklin P. Adams, PAGE 6 AMERICAN POPULAR SONG SOCIETY OCTOBER, 2016

Algonquin-Round-Table-Hirshfeld free celery and popovers. a stray male cat named The former Pembroke “Rusty.” Legend has it that Room was opened as the Oak John Barrymore suggested the Room Supper Club in 1939 cat needed a more “dignified” with European chanteuse Greta name – so the cat was renamed Keller headlining. The room “Hamlet.” Hamlet had the run very quickly became a premier of the hotel, and ever since cabaret hot spot. But World there has been an “Algonquin War II soon shut the venue Cat.” The males are all named down, and it wasn’t until 1980 Hamlet and the females that the Oak Room reopened as “Matilda.” The current a regular performance space Algonquin cat is a Matilda who with Steve Ross presiding. even has her own email Until its permanent closure in account (answered by the 2012, the Oak Room hosted a general manager’s executive Heywood Broun, Deems up long tables in the Pergola legion of notable and assistant). The Algonquin also Taylor, Marc Connelly, George Room (today known as the downright famous performers. has a cocktail named for it, a S. Kaufman, Frank Sullivan, Oak Room) and had so much In 1930 Frank Case took in mix of rye whiskey, Noilly Prat William B. Murray and John fun they decided to keep the and pineapple juice V.A. Weaver. Invited magazine soirée going. The core At the end of the Bodne era, writers and editors included members of the Round Table, ownership of the Algonquin Robert Benchley, Dorothy also later referred to as the Hotel passed through several Parker, Robert E. Sherwood, “Vicious Circle” by hands; the hotel is now part of Margaret Leech, Ruth Hale, themselves, included Franklin the Marriott International group. Harold W. Ross, and Donald P. Adams, Robert Benchley, The Algonquin Hotel was Ogden Stewart. Broadway Dorothy Parker, Neysa landmarked in 1987 by the City press agents Arthur Samuels McMein, Marc Connelly, Jane of New York and it was and David H. Wallace were on Grant, George S. Kaufman, designated a National Literary the guest list, and so were Heywood Broun, Ruth Hale, Landmark by the Friends of Beatrice Kaufman, Broadway Harold Ross, Robert E. Libraries USA in 1996. At 114 stars Margalo Gillmore and Sherwood, Edna Ferber and years of age, the Algonquin is a , artist Neysa Woollcott, who met religiously grande dame of a hotel whose McMein and novelist Edna for about a decade. Case aided extraordinary legacy should Ferber. and abetted the group by carry on with flair far into the This stunning group of providing their own table and Matilda, the Cat future. literary and artistic stars filled waiter in the Rose Room, plus

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Willie Nelson, Bob Dorough, and others. Additional performances on Wednesdays, Member October 12, November 16, and December 21, all at 8:00 PM. Music charge: $20, Beverage/Food minimum: $20. For reservations, call 212-995- News... 0900. APSS newsletter Contributing Editor Marilyn Lester is not only a writer and reviewer, but has a background in promotion and publicity. Marilyn is now offering marketing If you have any member news, or other items you would like to have services including e-blasts and promotion, as well as creation and improvement of considered for this newsletter, please send it by e-mail to the co- web site content, media kits and other collateral materials – all at very reasonable editor, Jerry Osterbergg : [email protected]. It will be subject to rates. Find out more @ www.mjlester.com. editing, depending on size and content, and please remember that we try to go to press two weeks before each monthly meeting. We APSS member Jerry Osterberg is making his semi-annual call for male singers of all often get very good items that get to us after the newsletter has been shapes and sizes for a Holiday Concert at Saint Peter’s Church, East 54 St & Lexington printed and mailed. Avenue on Thursday, December 22 @ 7:30 PM. The program will include several songs from Disney films, including Frozen, The Lion King, Newsies, & Song of the South, in additional a beautiful arrangement of “It Only Takes a Moment,” in honor of Linda Amiel Burns, APSS President, is celebrating four decades of The Singing the revival of Hello, Dolly! plus someholiday favorites. It’s not required that you read Experience. A number of APSS members have taken this workshop, some more than music, only the ability to carry a tune. Rehearsals are on Tuesdays, btw 6:30 and 8:30 once. For those of us who have, we can assure you that you’ll feel like a pro by the night PM @ St. Margaret’s House, located on Fulton Street in Lower Manhattan, of the performance. Although many students have never sung in public before, the beginning October 4. For more information, please contact Jerry @ 516-248-7549 supportive environment has prepared them well for their debut. Call Linda at 212-315- or 516-435-7817, or write to [email protected] . 3500 to sign up. The Singing Experience Cable TV show continues on MNN Time Warner: Channel 56 or RCN: Channel 111. The program broadcasts are every Sunday Margi Gianquinto, a frequent performer at APSS, continues to be a quite busy vocalist. at 5:00 PM. You can also see your fellow NYSMS members on YouTube at any time. A bit late for General Washington’s farewell party, but Margi will be singing at brunch at Fraunce’s Tavern on Saturday, October 1, btw 1:00 & 4:00 PM, 54 Pearl St in Midday Jazz Midtown continues on Wednesdays (1:00 PM to 2:00 PM) at Saint Peter’s Lower Manhattan, 212-425-1778. She’s also performing at Hotel Chantelle, 92 Church (East 54 Street (entrance) @ Lexington Ave), NYC, Hosted by Ronny Whyte. Ludlowe St (Lower East Side) on Wednesdays, October 5, 12, 19 & 26, all @ 7:00 Programs: October 5, Amina Figarova – piano, Gilad Atzmon – saxophone; October to 10:00 PM, 212-254-9100. Margi will be presenting her annual holiday program An 12, Gene Bertoncini –guitar, Ike Strum – bass, Melissa Stylianou – singer; October 19, Old Fashioned Christmas with Margi & the Dapper Dots, on Sunday, December 18 @ Sandy Stewart – singer, Bill Charlap – piano; October 26, Dominick Farinacci – 1:00 PM at The Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22 nd St. Cover charge: $20 plus 2 drink trumpet. Suggested donation: $10. Parking: Icon Parking, East 51 St, between Third minimum, reservations: 212-206-0440. and Lexington Ave. $15 including tax for five hours with validation @ Saint Peter’s reception desk. www.ronnywhyte.com/ www.saintpeters.org/jazz/midtownjazz.htm . Carol J. Binkowski’s new book, Opening Carnegie Hall: The Creation and First Performances of America’s Premier Concert Stage was just published by McFarland The beat goes on! The latest edition of The Singing Experience, #478, will have its & Company. Details are available at www.caroljbinkowski.com . performance Holiday Delights at The Triad on December 8. Rehearsals begin on Thursday, November 3, and continue on November 10, 17 and December 3. All Hilary Kole’s newest CD: The Project (Miranda Music) is now on-sale. sessions run from 6:30 to 9:30 PM and take place at Studio 353 on West 48 Street. For The remarkable performer conjures the spirit and beauty of Judy Garland in stunning additional information, contact Linda Amiel Burns at 212-315-3500 or write to arrangements of songs made famous by the legendary singer, including “The Trolley www.singingexperience.com . Stop procrastinating! Hundreds of singers have paved Song,” “The Boy Next Door,” “A Cottage for Sale,” “The Man That Got Away,” and “Over the way for your debut. Sign up to sing! You’ll be glad that you did. the Rainbow.”

Todd Murray, who not only opened last season with his terrific show Croon, but he’ll Do you seek an elusive song? If you do, write APSS Board member Sandy Marrone be back with us to help open the new season as a featured guest of Michael Colby on @ [email protected] or call 856-829-6104. You can also visit Sandy in New Jersey October 8. And…since we hope you will have read this long before then, you may be to see thousands and thousands of sheets of music, most of which can be yours very interested to know that Todd has a brand new show Separate Ways, with Stacy Sullivan reasonably. She is a marvelous resource and a super-great lady! on Tuesday, October 4, Wednesday, October 5, & Tuesday, November 22, all @ 7:00 at Feinstein’s/54 Below, 254 West 54 St, Tickets are $30, $40, and $65. 35% Sandi Durell is Publisher-Editor of TheaterPizzazz.com, a vital website that presents discount for APSS members – Code: TOST35. Food/Beverage minimum: $25. Tickets up to date theater reviews, news, interviews and previews, along with cabaret reviews & Information: 646-476-3551. and videos. There is a large contributing group of writers who offer discerning and professional reviews and information. Sandi is a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle APSS member and MAC Hanson Award winner Lucille Carr-Kaffashan will be Awards Voter, member of the American Theatre Critics Association, League of performing her new show Unwritten, which celebrates Twenty-First Century female Professional Theatre Women, The Lambs, and The Dutch Treat Club. Visit: singer-, at Don’t Tell Mama, 343 West 46 St, on Thursdays, October 6 & www.theaterpizzazz.com . 13 @ 7:00 PM and Sunday, October 9 @ 5:00 PM. Lucille has garnered some wonderful reviews such as: “…she has the chops…the talent and…the charisma that Lynn DiMenna, longtime Vice President and Board member of APSS, was honored on audiences will fall in love with” which appeared in the Time Square Chronicles. For September 22nd at the Metropolitan Room by her peers. Hosted by the Managing reservations call 212-757-0788. Partner Bernie Furshpan, the joyful evening was a warm tribute to Lynn for her many years of selfless service to the cabaret community. Besides her husband of 43 years, Kaye Allyn, who performed for the APSS a couple of seasons back, and contributed John, there were three of her four children in the room, all three of whom performed. an article to the newsletter, opened a brand new show The Gift of the Vagi (Bad The program included many of the best known cabaret artists in the field who took to Decisions Make Good Stories) on September 21 at Café Noctambulo at Pangea, 78 th the stage and contributed a song to the festivities, among them Marilyn Maye, Karen Second Avenue, btw East 11th & 12 Sts. She describes it as “A tale of woe and Oberlin, John Gabriel, Sidney Meyer, KT Sullivan, Margi Gianquinto, and Linda Amiel naughty bits, with the songs of Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Cy Coleman, Burns. Send Member News to [email protected] no later than the 15th of each month for the next issue. American Popular Song Society P.O. Box 5856 PIKESVILLE, MD 21282

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PleaOse muark ryo ur 2cal0enda1rs6 for t-he1 s7eco ndS Saeturdaay sof eoachn month. October 8, 2016 March 11, 2017 Michael Colby – "The Algonquin Kid" Cabaret Month Produced by Sandi Durell "The State of Sheet Music Today” Panel Produced by Michael Lavine & Tom Toce November 12, 2016 "Love for Sale: Pop Music in America" April 8, 2017 David Hajdu’s new book – A Critical History of Duke Ellington’s Music for Theater American Popular Music with Karen Oberlin & Others. Produced by Marilyn Lester

December 10, 2016 May 13, 2017 Will Friedwald: : The Video Rarities " Showcase" "Keeping American Popular Songs alive and growing January 14, 2017 with emerging and established songwriters” David Maister “American Songs, English Singers" Produced by Sandi & Tom Produced by Jerry Osterberg June 10, 2017 February 11, 2017 Richard Skipper Celebrates Carol Woods on "Richard Whiting" An all-star cast celebrating Produced by Debi Whiting Judy Garland’s Birthday.