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Topic: Michael Feinstein


In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  glbtq >> arts >> Feinstein, Michael
An avid collector of their recordings since he was a boy, Feinstein became an archivist for Ira Gershwin, in which capacity he was able to study rare recordings and unpublished material by the Gershwins.
Feinstein was born in Columbus, Ohio--"not exactly a hotbed of musical activity, especially for.
Feinstein catalogued the collection--which grew as Gershwin and his wife acquired more materials at auctions--for eventual donation to the Gershwin Archives in the Library of Congress.
www.glbtq.com /arts/feinstein_m.html   (825 words)

  
 Great Performances . Genre . Musical Theater | PBS
Take a visual journey through the golden age of American popular music with performer and musicologist Michael Feinstein.
Glenn Close, Antonio Banderas, and Elaine Paige are among the stars who pay tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber during his 50th birthday gala.
Top banner photos: Singers Michael McElroy, Darius DeHaas, and Dwayne Clark; Nancy Anderson; Natalie Cole; Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane.
www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/genre/musical_theater.html   (268 words)

  
 MBR: Internet Bookwatch, December 2003
Michael Glantz's Climate Affairs A Primer (1559639199, $18.95) argues that governments attempting to develop coping strategies for climate variability are in effect developing new international laws for climate management.
Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Michael G. Cartwright and Peter Ochs, The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited is a posthumous collection of essays by John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) "revisiting" the Jewish-Christian split in the light of Yoder's primary thesis that the schism "did not have to be".
From how the game transformed Michael from an introvert into a popular pitcher during his high school years, to how the game helped him grow into the confidence needed to pursue his writing career, Still Pitching is a positive, entertaining, and occasionally inspiring recollection guaranteed to resonate with fellow baseball fans.
www.midwestbookreview.com /ibw/dec_03.htm   (14486 words)

  
 The Henry Mancini Institute
All three siblings began their musical training with piano lessons from their mother, Marcia Weiss.
Ray Pizzi, woodwind specialist, active in the L.A. music industry over 30 years performing on numerous motion picture scores, television shows, and recordings for Henry Mancini, Jack Elliott, Patrick Williams, John Williams, Frank Zappa, Dizzy Gillespie, Ravi Shankar, Sarah Vaughn, Quincy Jones, Alan Silvestri, Horace Silver, Madonna, Aretha Franklin, Michael Feinstein, and Barbra Streisand.
A former head of the saxophone department and composition instructor at the University of the Arts, Trombetta has taught musicians as diverse as Michael Brecker, Stanley Clarke, and Bob Malach to name a few.
www.manciniinstitute.org /woodwinds.cfm   (887 words)

  
 musicals
Ganzl writes informatively - he is also the author of The encyclopedia of musical theatre.
Show tunes : the songs, shows, and careers of Broadway's major composers, by Steven Suskin ; with a foreword by Michael Feinstein.
This reference book chronicles the shows, songs, and careers of all the major composers of the American musical theatre, from Jerome Kern's earliest to the latest hits on Broadway.
www.wcl.govt.nz /popular/classical/classicalmusical.html   (1741 words)

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