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	Barbara Cook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cook made her Broadway debut in 1951 as Sandy in the short-lived musical Flahooley.
		Cook's good reviews and clear soprano voice enabled her to win the role of Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein's new musical, Candide in 1956.
		Cook's last original musical role on Broadway came in 1971 when she played Dolly Talbo in The Grass Harp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Cook (351 words)

	Barbara Cook - Music Downloads - Online
		Cook quickly moved on to her fourth new Broadway musical and her most successful, cast as Marian the librarian in Meredith Willson's {+The Music Man}.
		Cook returned to Broadway in a straight play, Jules Feiffer's {+Little Murders}, which opened April 25, 1967, and ran only a week (though a subsequent off-Broadway production in which she did not participate was much more successful).
		By the early '90s, Cook was performing regularly in classy clubs such as the Cafe Carlyle in the Carlyle Hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where she enjoyed repeat engagements.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/100/445/8/1004458.html (1914 words)

	Barbara Cook - Biography - AOL Music
		Cook returned to New York for another City Center revival, this one of Carousel, in which she played the featured role of Carrie Pipperidge.
		Cook quickly moved on to her fourth new Broadway musical and her most successful, cast as Marian the librarian in Meredith Willson's The Music Man. One of the longest-running musicals of its day, the show opened December 19, 1957, and played 1,375 performances, closing April 15, 1961.
		Cook returned to Broadway in a straight play, Jules Feiffer's Little Murders, which opened April 25, 1967, and ran only a week (though a subsequent off-Broadway production in which she did not participate was much more successful).
	music.aol.com /artist/barbara-cook/3093/biography (1951 words)

	Barbara Cook on SONY BMG Masterworks
		In January Miss Cook will achieve yet another career high when New York's Metropolitan Opera Company presents the artist in her solo concert debut, making her the first female pop singer to be presented by the MET in the company's 123 year history.
		Barbara Cook's Broadway followed close on the heels of her earlier triumph, the critically acclaimed Barbara Cook in Mostly Sondheim.
		Cook began a creative partnership with musical arranger, accompanist, composer, dance arranger and conductor Wally Harper, a shining model of artistic collaboration and enduring friendship, which lasted for nearly thirty-one years until his death last year.
	www.sonybmgmasterworks.com /artists/barbaracook/index.html (1039 words)

	Barbara Cook bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In January Miss Cook achieved yet another career high when New York’s Metropolitan Opera Company presented the artist in her solo concert debut, making her the first female pop singer to be presented by the MET in the company’s 123 year history.
		USA Today noted that “Barbara Cook is singing as gloriously as ever in her latest one-woman show,” adding that “this septuagenarian’s combination of gorgeous technique and emotional insight is nothing short of miraculous.” The Associated Press called Barbara Cook’s Broadway “the most satisfying musical-theater experience of the year.
		Cook’s appearance as a featured artist at the Carnegie Hall Gala Music and Remembrance: A Celebration of Great Musical Partnerships underscored her commitment to two important causes: the advancement of the performing arts and support of AIDS research.
	www.celebrityseries.org /06_PRESS/BCook_Bio.htm (1054 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Champion Season: Music: Barbara Cook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Barbara Cook is the epitome of the cabaret diva.
		Barbara Cook is one of the marvels of our present world - her voice, feeling, rhythm, intonation, everything is perfect.
		Barbara Cook is in great voice and the material is well suited for her.
	www.amazon.ca /Champion-Season-Barbara-Cook/dp/B00000K2CR (986 words)

	Welcome to The Official Barbara Cook Online Resource
		Barbara Cook was the singer to call upon when one wanted a radiant stage presence and an equally radiant soprano voice.
		Cook sang one of these songs, "Vanilla Ice Cream" at her 2001 engagement at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in New York, a moment that brought tears of joy to many in the audience.
		Cook is heard in a wide range of music - from Viennese operetta and American folksongs to Broadway classics and pop standards - and is partnered by such fine artists as Alfred Drake, Robert Goulet and Anita Gillette.
	www.barbaracook.com /shop.htm?PID=91485 (1814 words)

	Barbara Cook MP3 Downloads - Barbara Cook Music Downloads - Barbara Cook Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A superior veteran cabaret singer, Barbara Cook is in excellent form throughout this set of show tunes.
		One of the reasons that Barbara Cook has been a success in her second career as a concert and nightclub singer, after a first career as a Broadway musical star, is, ironically, that she has so...
		Barbara Cook established her second career as a nightclub and concert singer with her 1975 Carnegie Hall debut and the album At Carnegie Hall that was culled from it by Columbia Records.
	www.mp3.com /barbara-cook/artists/2575/songs.html (1545 words)

	Barbara Cook News
		Broadway, concert, and cabaret veteran Barbara Cook has become the first pop performer ever to be named Vocalist of the Year by Musical America, the international directory of the performing arts.
		Barbara Cook, a revered veteran of New York's cabaret scene and the Broadway stage, will be the headliner at tonight's Milwaukee Symphony Pops season opener.
		If you've only ever seen Barbara Cook doing her famed runs at Lincoln Center's Beaumont Theater, you owe it to yourself to catch her at the Cafe Carlyle.s For one thing, it's actually your last chance to see...
	www.topix.net /who/barbara-cook (812 words)

	Welcome to The Official Barbara Cook Online Resource
		The evening which required no advertising was sold out of its 3700 seats within five days just by word-of-mouth from the legions of loyal Barbara Cook fans, proving her star power has withstood the test of time.
		This all-new studio recording is Barbara Cook's 14th solo album and a loving tribute to her longtime partner, collaborator and friend Wally Harper, who died this past fall.
		Barbara Cook, who captivated audiences in her brilliant "Mostly Sondheim" concert two years ago, returns to New York 's Lincoln Center for 12 performances only.
	www.barbaracook.com (560 words)

	Broadway showcases Barbara Cook - Features
		Cook transformed herself into a cabaret artist of the first rank more than two decades later, but her heart and soul remain in musical theater, something that comes through with astonishing clarity in "Barbara Cook's Broadway," her glorious new one-woman show at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater.
		Cook finds the emotional truth in a number, mixed it with her impeccable phrasing and enunciation and transforms the moment into high art.
		As usual, Cook is accompanied by the invaluable Wally Harper on piano, and Richard Sarpola is on bass.
	www.dailyvidette.com /news/2004/03/30/Features/Broadway.Showcases.Barbara.Cook-644783.shtml (539 words)

	Review: Barbara Cook glorious at the Met - Boston.com
		At an astonishing 78 years young, Cook has refined her technique to such a degree that the inevitable lessening of vocal power that comes with age doesn't matter much at all.
		Cook has fine sense of self, gently kidding around during a few technical and lyrical mishaps that forced the repetition of several numbers since the concert was being recorded.
		In a sense, you could see Cook offering that same bit of wisdom to Groban himself: a legendary performer joyously passing the torch to a younger generation while her own flame still shines brightly.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2006/01/21/review_barbara_cook_glorious_at_the_met?mode=PF (577 words)

	Barbara Cook: Toast Of Broadway , Mike Wallace Interviews Legendary Broadway Singer - CBS News
		“Cook is 76 and overweight," wrote critic John Simon, "but the instant she starts to sing, she is the slender ingénue of yore.
		Forty-four years ago, Cook was the toast of Broadway, originating the role of Marian the librarian in the hit show "The Music Man." She was the hometown girl who won the heart of the fast-talking con man, played by Robert Preston, and she won a Tony Award for it.
		With Cook no longer in demand for Broadway musicals, Harper has guided her in what has turned out to be her second career, as a cabaret and concert performer.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/06/11/60minutes/main622614.shtml (1236 words)

	Barbara Cook - Mostly Sondheim
		Barbara Cook, gifted with a clear, beautifully toned lyric soprano voice and ingenue good looks, was a megastar of the Broadway musical stage for a decade in the 1950's and 1960's.
		Cook later shifted gears and has since performed primarily in concerts and cabaret, with an emphasis on the Great American Songbook.
		In her first San Francisco appearances since the 1970's, Cook is offering a Mostly Sondheim program, based on the concept of Sondheim's 70th birthday celebration concert last May, which featured not only songs by Sondheim, but also songs that "he wishes he had written." It's a marriage made in heaven--but sometimes heaven takes its time.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/BarbaraCook.htm (501 words)

	Book Barbara Cook - Booking Corporate Event, Meeting, Private Party - Your Booking Agent for Barbara Cook
		In 1974 Cook began a creative partnership with musical arranger, accompanist, composer, dance arranger, and conductor Wally Harper; theirs is a shining model of artistic collaboration and enduring friendship.
		Cook and Harper have traveled the world together and performed a number of times at the White House—for Presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton.
		In October 1991 Cook's appearance as a featured artist with Harper at the Carnegie Hall Gala Music and Remembrance: A Celebration of Great Musical Partnerships underscored their commitment to two important causes: the advancement of the performing arts and support of AIDS research.
	www.grabow.biz /Contemporary/Barbara-Cook.htm (1023 words)

	Amazon.ca: It's Better With a Band: Music: Barbara Cook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Her crystalline upper register is still in very good shape, but she also swings surprisingly hard--those who know only Cook's semi-operatic trills or her dramatic readings of Sondheim's art songs are in for a shock here.
		Barbara Cook has recorded a number of very fine albums over the years, but not one is half as enjoyable as this little treasure.
		Listen to Barbara sing a duet with a tuba on "Them There Eyes," then hear her scat on "Sweet Georgia Brown," laugh with her as she sings "The Ingenue," and then discover the queen of Broadway singing an incomparabel Bernstein medley.
	www.amazon.ca /Its-Better-Band-Barbara-Cook/dp/B00006GOET (887 words)

	Songbirds: Barbara Cook
		In 1975, Cook "discovered" the Great American Songbook when she was preparing for her now-historic concert at Carnegie Hall.
		All other versions of this song have been sung in either the usual bombastic Broadway-belt style or the soprano operatic mode, but Cook's version is a glorious exercise in subtlety and class, as she concentrates more on how each word is delivered.
		Cook's voice has a reassuring quality that is so comforting and calm, and also commanding.
	www.mrlucky.com /songbirds/html/may99/a_bcook.html (616 words)

	All I Ask Of You - Barbara Cook
		In a career that spans the second half of the twentieth century, Barbara Cook has achieved a status accorded only a handful of Broadway performers.
		The rest of Cook's recital consists of largely familiar material from Broadway and Hollywood's golden age.
		Cook remains at the peak of her powers.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/BarbaraCook.htm (513 words)

	SHOW BUSINESS WEEKLY: REVIEWS: Barbara Cook: Mostly Sondheim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		With superb diction and her trademark perfect pitch, Cook made it clear that–even though she was using a cane to steady herself from a knee injury–she was hardly ready to retire and that the evening would be filled with excitement.
		Gets’ inclusion on the program was no doubt an effort to allow Cook to rest her voice for a few minutes in each act, and he rose to the occasion splendidly.
		Finally, Cook’s performance of "Ice Cream" from She Loves Me–complete with a stunning high B natural–can only be described as a triumph of solid technique, especially for a woman who is 73.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/109/nyclive-cook.html (530 words)

	Barbara Cook - Review - Music - New York Times
		Cook, newly slenderized, may have eliminated ice cream from her personal diet.
		Cook was joined by Kelli O’Hara, Sebastian Arcelus and a large chorus.
		That said, three-quarters of Barbara Cook is better than 100 percent of almost everybody else.
	travel.nytimes.com /2006/11/20/arts/music/20cook.html (610 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Music: Live from London, Barbara Cook, CD
		Live From London, Barbara Cook's eighth solo album, is also her third concert recording, but it is the first such release the singer has undertaken in nearly 14 years, since the second of her Carnegie Hall collections, It's Better With a Band.
		Cook, who launched her second career as a concert artist (after an earlier career as a star of Broadway musicals) with her first live album, At Carnegie Hall in 1975, is a past master of the sort of show she puts on here.
		Cook puts her stamp on some terrific evergreens, notably the Harold Arlen/Johnny Mercer songs "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "I Had Myself a True Love," both from the 1946 musical St.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=21471143027 (362 words)

	Barbara Cook, 11/18/06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cook debuts her most recent concert program, titled No One Is Alone, which celebrates the songs of Stephen Sondheim and his closest friends and collaborators, including Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Oscar Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers, and Jules Styne.
		Cook made her Carnegie Hall debut as part of an all-Bernstein performance with the New York Philharmonic on February 23, 1961.
		Cook made her solo concert debut at The Metropolitan Opera, the first female pop singer to be presented by the MET in the company's 123-year history.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/press/press_release/103624.html (628 words)

	Trek or Treat: Broadway: Barbara Cook in Mostly Sondheim
		According to a Sondheim Website: "In 2000, musical theater great Stephen Sondheim compiled a list of songs he 'wished he'd written, (at least in part)' at the request of the Library of Congress, which was planning a 70th birthday bash for the composer-lyricist.
		The list, published as part of Frank Rich's interview with Sondheim in the New York Times Sunday Magazine on March 12, 2000, caught the eye of Barbara Cook, a Broadway legend in her own right.
		She's been around the corner and around the block, but Barbara Cook knows her way around a song better than anyone.
	www.trekortreat.com /barbaracook.htm (620 words)

	Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Barbara Cook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The recipient of a Tony, a Grammy, a Drama Desk Award, and most recently inducted into the Broadway Hall of Fame, Barbara Cook was considered âBroadwayâs favorite ingenueâ during the heyday of the Broadway musical.
		Cook went on to create the role of Cunegonde in the original production of Leonard Bernsteinâs Candide, followed by her portrayal of Marian the Librarian in the premiere production of Meredith Willsonâs The Music Man—a performance which earned her a highly prestigious Tony Award.
		Cook and her accompanist Wally Harper recently completed a critically acclaimed, seven-week engagement at the Lincoln Center Theater, to which they will return in Summer 2002, performing their popular sensation Mostly Sondheim.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entity_id=4347&source_type=A (496 words)

	Middle Eight Music
		Barbara Cook brings all her subtle artistry to bear on this album of Dorothy Fields songs.
		In late May 2003, Barbara Cook brought her warm presence to DVD for the very first time with Mostly Sondheim.
		This all-new studio recording is Barbara Cook’s 14th solo album and a loving tribute to her longtime partner, collaborator and friend Wally Harper, who died last year.
	www.middle8.com /mem/categories.asp?cID=358&scID=624 (259 words)

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