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Recording ID
30459
Title
Friday Night is Music Night: Michael Feinstein
Source
Concert Cast
Year
2014-08-29
Type
Noncommercial Audio
Subtype
Concert Cast
Notes
Michael Feinstein, the multi-platinum-selling, two-time Emmy and five-time Grammy Award-nominated entertainer dubbed "The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook," is the leading interpreter of American standards. He's played at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, the Hollywood Bowl, the White House and Buckingham Palace and now joins the sixty piece BBC Concert orchestra and Broadway maestro Larry Blank for a very special Friday Night Is Music Night, dedicated to the art and craft of the great songwriters.

Michael's fascination with the American Songbook began in Columbus, Ohio. It was here that he began playing piano at the age of five. After graduating from high school, he worked in local piano bars for two years, moving to Los Angeles when he was 20. Then the widow of the legendary concert pianist-actor Oscar Levant introduced him to Ira Gershwin in July 1977. Michael became Gershwin's assistant for six years, which earned him access to numerous unpublished Gershwin songs, many of which he has since performed and recorded. Gershwin's influence led to his becoming a composer and arranger of his own original music and an outstanding interpreter of music legends such as Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington, Harry Warren and of course George and Ira Gershwin.

Tonight he shares personal memories of those greats, together with their music and songs, in the company of his special guests.
Recording venue
Hackney Empire
Recording group
BBC Radio 2
Recording language
English
Location
EnglandUK / England / London
Method
Live
Completion score
14
Music
[p2089 Strouse, Charles]
[p1321 Loewe, Frederick]
[p767 Gershwin, George]
[p67 Arlen, Harold]
[p975 Herman, Jerry]
[p2024 Sondheim, Stephen]
Lyrics
[p1282 Lerner, Alan Jay]
[p76796 Harburg, E.Y.]
[p768 Gershwin, Ira]
[p975 Herman, Jerry]
[p12 Adams, Lee]
[p2024 Sondheim, Stephen]
Conductor
[p2407 Blank, Larry]
Performer
[p14165 Stilgoe, Joe]
[p721 Friedman, Maria]
[p16957 Feinstein, Michael]
Musician
[p27769 BBC Concert Orchestra, ]