New P.O. Box 5856 New York Sheet Music Societsy lette PIKESVILLE, MD 21282 VOLUME 36, NUMBER 1 SINCwwwE.NY S1MS.o9rg 80 OCTOBER, 2014 r DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION OF CLASSIC POPULAR MUSIC eclectic – reflecting songwriters as di - Hilary Kole:Worth the Wait in Gold verse as Elvis Costello and Paul Simon to Kurt Weill and Henry Mancini. A Perfect Ending to the 2013-2014 Season The show that Hilary performed for By Jerry Osterberg the NYSMS was no exception. Dressed in a floor length, alluring blue print Knowing more than a year ago that oped an exhaustive repertoire of songs gown, she presented a host of well- Hilary Kole would be performing for the from the Great American Songbook, New York Sheet Music Society certainly something quickly remedied. By the Now you can didn’t make the waiting any easier. opening night of her first serious gig, join or renew your Those of us who attend cabaret regularly Hilary had learned over two hundred membership ONLINE! were relieved by seeing Hilary perform tunes. 3 easy steps! at either 54 Below or the Iridium. Less Four years later, she transitioned fortunate souls had to content them - from the bandstand to the tiny platform www.NYSMS.org selves with her recordings. of cabaret, partnering with Eric Com - Did you know every issue of this newsletter stock and Christopher Gines. Together is in COLOR online at www.NYSMS.org they conceived and performed Our Sinatra, a hugely successful revue which ran for several years. Having re - ceived excellent notices during the long run, Hilary’s increased visibility lead to Hilary & Paul Greenwood What’s Coming Up This Season... solo shows at many of the most presti - gious venues around New York City. honed standards, most of them immedi - October 11, 2014- Dennis Livingston/Stories of My Mind - revue with great cast Somewhere along the way she became ately recognizable to the approving of It was at the singers, including Scott Coulter, Julie Reyburn and others. a star. members. Included in the supper-room Laurie Beechman Theater in 2011 - he is the son of songwriter Jerry Livingston. Anyone who had ever seen Hilary quality program were “Two for the November 8, 2014- Three For a Song - "Great Songs You've Never Heard Of." Kole perform, appreciated that she’d Road,” said to be Henry Mancini’s fa - Mark Walter recommended this program which will be coming in from Washington done her homework. Typically, a one- vorite movie theme composition, the DC. Heard great things and a lot of research has been done for this program. hour program would have involved lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, and “I Re - December 13, 2014- Will Friedwald - Clip Joints - great film shorts of legendary countless hours of reviewing hundreds member You,” the words by Johnny singers & bands - Will is so knowledgeable and writes for the WSJ aside from However, by June 14th, every star of songs. Her audiences also knew that Mercer. Although Mercer wrote it with his many books. He narrates the clips and will be putting together a special pro - had aligned, and Ms. Kole made her ea - the shows were going to be varied and Victor Schertzinger to memorialize his gram for us. gerly anticipated debut at NYSMS, infatuation with Judy Garland, the in - January 10, 2015- "Gems By Jule" on the songs Jule Styne by Paul & Rochelle much to the delight of the membership stant torch song was sung by Dorothy Chamlin. Their show at the Beechman was delightful. Paul has been a loyal mem - and their guests. Although Hilary Lamour in The Fleet’s In. Hilary per - ber of the NYSMS for many years and is thrilled to perform for us... and the pro - seems to be everywhere at once these formed it up-tempo, adding an extended gram is well put together. days, the always beautiful newlywed section of scatting, an impressive talent February 14, 2015 - TBA spent an entire afternoon with us, practically patented by Ella Fitzgerald. Ms. Kole’s penchant for scatting was March 14, 2015 - Ronny Whyte - Jazz at Noon - new CD. Ronny has done an backed by the exceptional musical di - fully expressed in “Better Than Any - amazing job for the past several years gathering the greats of the jazz world to rector, Paul Greenwood. thing,” a much beloved jazz classic, Saint Peter's. He has agreed to put a show together for us and it will be sensa - Before she had even graduated from most notably recorded by Irene Kral and tional. the Manhattan School of Music, Hilary was chosen over 300 other talented Bob Dorough. Successfully demon - April 11, 2015- TBA young women to become the last of the strating her versatility, she followed May 9, 2015 - Tom Toce - Songwriter Showcase. Big Band Singers at the Rainbow Room. with “The Folks Who Live on the Hill,” June 13, 2015 - TBA Although Hilary had arranged for Big written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Ham - Hilary, Jerry Osterberg & Emanuel Wilcox Bands at MSM, she hadn’t yet devel - Continued on page 4 PAGE 2 NEW YORK SHEET MUSIC SOCIETY OCTOBER, 2014 OCTOBER, 2014 NEW YORK SHEET MUSIC SOCIETY PAGE 75 They had, after all, been married President’s Message... New York Jazz Singer Jackie Cain as well as performing and honing Linda Amiel Burns, President their act since the Truman admin - Sheet Music Society Dies at 86 istration. “I’m always a little nervous,” OFFICERS Welcome back to the 2014-2015 Season of The New York Sheet Music President: Jackie Cain, the sparkling jazz singer who teamed with her husband, Ms. Cain told the Chicago Sun- Society! We are very excited about the programs that have been sched - Linda Amiel Burns Roy Kral, and became an acclaimed act on record and stage for more Times in 1997. “I’m kind of a 1st Vice Presidents: than a half-century, died September 15 at her home in Montclair, N.J. shy person who has always had uled for this coming year. Some changes are in the offing: we are thinking of changing Lynn DiMenna & Jackie and Roy, as they were known, rose to initial prominence as to feel out a room before I feel our name to reflect our more inclusive approach, and in the hopes of attracting new mem - Sandi Durell singers — she an effervescent soprano, he a warm baritone — with comfortable and work up a sense bers. More details to follow. 2nd Vice Presidents: the bebop saxophonist Charlie Ventura and his “Bop for the People” of ease. But I’m more confident I hope you all had a good summer. I took a lovely Mediterranean cruise on Cunard’s new Joan Adams & band in the late 1940s. They were among the first to shape the art of now. I talk to myself and say, Sandy Marrone Queen Elizabeth in August, with my daughter, Liz. It was a perfect week and we managed Treasurer: “vocalese,” a wordless singing style modeled on intricate bebop har - you’ve been doing this for Jackie Cain and Roy Kral in 1962. They monies and phrasing. It was further popularized by King Pleasure, 50 years, so get over it!” to get the R & R that we both needed so badly. Unfortunately, I took a spill on the cob - Glen Charlow met in 1947 and were musical and marital the vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, and, in later years, the Modeling her singing style on blestones on our first day in Rome, and broke my foot. However, it is healing nicely and Membership: partners until his death in 2002. Credit Glen Charlow & Trudi Mann Manhattan Transfer. Jo Stafford, a jazz vocalist of im - Bernard Hollywood by our first meeting I will not be wearing this ugly black boot! Recording Secretary: Their style was crisp yet harmonically daring, cool but emotionally peccable tone and swinging Our first Program on Saturday, October 11th will be “The Stories In My Mind” – a revue Edie Stokes sophisticated, usually aided by a first-rate backup combo with Kral rhythm, at 14, Jackie summoned the courage to ask the bandleader of the songs of Dennis Livingston. Dennis is the son of famed composer Jerry Livingston Programs & Special Events: on piano. They worked with top-flight arrangers such as Quincy Horace Heidt if she could sing with his group. “I got up and sang… (Mairzy Doats, The Twelfth of Never, Cinderella score, etc) and he once did a program for Elliott Ames & Sandi Durell Jones, Ralph Burns and Bill Holman. Among their staples were and they asked me to come back and sing at every show,” she told Marketing & Public Relations: us on his father’s music. This show features some of the top names in cabaret and “Mountain Greenery,” “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most,” jazz historian Gene Lees. “They put me on a chair, because I was very Barbara Thaler and “Cheerful Little Earful.” small.” Website: theater: Julie Reyburn, Scott Coulter, Kenneth Gartman, Christina Connors, Alex Goley; In addition to pulling from the Great American Songbook of the Within a few years, she began singing professionally in Chicago. it is not to be missed. For more information, visit: www.dennislivingston.com Glen Charlow Editor Emeritus: Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, and Cole Porter, they stretched into One night, a friend invited her to sit in with a quartet at a Windy City The November meeting will be produced by Will Friedwald, and is titled “Clip Joints.” It Jerry Laird Brazilian bossa nova, Broadway show tunes, cabaret music, and con - club. The band’s pianist, Roy Kral, did not think much of “girl features marvelous clips of singers, bands and songs collected by Will over the years.