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<title>Barbra Streisand</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Want to start a heated debate at any party? Just mention the name Barbra Streisand. An amazingly gifted vocalist who doesn't always know when to quit, "Babs" is one of the few classic pop singers to come of age in the post-Elvis era. Already a great singer, Broadway propelled her to stardom and a highly successful recording career. Alas, the girl who dazzled the nation with her heartbreakingly sad take on "Happy Days Are Here Again" (from her 1963 debut) grew up to be the hurricane that spawned such bombastic storms as Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. Meanwhile, the streetwise Brooklynite who flirtatiously ate a carrot like Bugs Bunny in <I>What's Up Doc</I> aged into the auteur who gave a supporting role to her fingernails in <I>The Prince of Tides</I>. If the cool mod chick with the purest pipes since Ella Fitzgerald evolved into an "artiste" with a questionable perm, at least Babs has always followed her own path. She remains an American institution who has won Oscars, Grammies, and countless Emmys and has also become a subcultural icon. Streisand was championed in the 1960s as the first female sex symbol with a shnozola and is now feted by the gay community.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Andrew Lloyd Webber</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:55:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Andrew Lloyd Webber helped usher in the age of the Broadway Blockbuster, creating a whole new global audience for musical theater in the process. The composer, who has had a long collaboration with lyricist Tim Rice, had his first major success in 1971 with <I>Jesus Christ Superstar</I>. The duo originally couldn't raise enough financing to mount a show, so they released a <I>J.C. Superstar</I> soundtrack album first and saw it instantly take off, and they were able to turn it into a stage musical. After that breakthrough success, Webber and Rice didn't have any problems finding money to put their shows together, and experienced even greater triumphs with <I>Evita</I> (which stands up as their greatest work) and <I>Cats</I> (which became one of the longest running shows in theater history). After these successes, it didn't seem as if Webber could get any bigger. But then he composed a light rock adaptation of <I>The Phantom of the Opera</I> using his then-wife Sarah Brightman as his muse. <i>Phantom</i> turned an even bigger number of young people raised on TV and the movies into theatergoers, and Webber has kept going from there.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Jonathan Larson</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:37:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Larson rewrote the rules for musical theater in the late 20th century, crafting the first musical in decades that truly spoke to younger audiences. <I>Rent</i>, with its glorious mash-up of musical styles and heartfelt lyricism, absolutely exploded on Broadway when it opened in 1996, earning a Pulitzer Prize, four Tonys and assorted other awards. Larson, who grew up in White Plains, NY, played tuba in high school and cherished aspirations of acting, but his mentor and hero Steven Sondheim convinced him to pursue composing instead. His early work includes "Tick, Tick...BOOM!" and "Suburbia," but <i>Rent</i> represents the fullest flowering of his talent. Larson first conceived of <I>Rent</i> when he and a friend decided to remake Puccini's <I>La Boheme</i> with modern characters set in New York. Larson ended up taking over the project, basing much of it on his own experiences as a poor, struggling artist living in downtown Manhattan. He transposed Puccini's characters into more modern types -- a punk, a videographer, an HIV positive woman -- and drew on rock, soul, salsa and pop to create the music. The night before <I>Rent</i> previews were set to open, Larson collapsed and died unexpectedly of an aortic aneurysm. His family gave the production their blessing to go on as scheduled, and the rest is history. The play was made into a film in 2005.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Stephen Schwartz</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:17:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Next to Broadway big shots like Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Rodgers, there's a rightful place for composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz. His early career includes the scores to community-theater chestnut <i>Pippen</i> and the film <i>Godspell</i>, and a run with Disney that yielded music for a number of animated hits, including the Academy Award-winning score to <i>Pocahontas</i> (remember "Have you ever seen the wolf cry to the blue horned moon"? -- yeah, that was him). He had already earned most major awards in his field when he struck gold in 2003 with the score to the massively popular Broadway musical <i>Wicked</i>. Schwartz continues to write for stage and screen, and enjoyed another big success with the 2007 Disney film <i>Enchanted</i>.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Richard Rodgers wrote great songs for Broadway shows with his first lyricist Lorenz Hart; but with his second partner Oscar Hammerstein, he wrote great musicals. Their first outing <i>Oklahoma</i> (1943) was more than a huge success, it was a joyous celebration of Americana. If you are unsettled by singing ranch hands, check out their next work, the darkly beautiful <i>Carousel</i>. <i>South Pacific</i> dealt with racial intolerance, while the effervescent <i>The King and I</i> made a star out of Yul Brynner, who also ruled the screen version with his masculine "I can kick your jock butt" singing and dancing. Another smash hit, <i>The Sound of Music</i> had their weakest score, but at least contained the ever-comforting "My Favorite Things." Rodgers and Hammerstein's strengths in crafting complex, whole works didn't leave them with a large numbers of songs that worked outside of a show's context. Regardless, they set the gold standard for the American musical.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>The New Musical Cast</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Stephen Sondheim</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:56:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Stephen Sondheim is the most artistically important Broadway composer of the past 50 years, even if he isn't the most commercially successful. To his credit, Sondheim has constantly challenged theater audiences with practically every one of his choices, from scathing lyrics to experimental music to the topics and themes of his musicals, which have included everything from middle class/middle age ennui to political assassinations to imperialism to ecological destruction. Sondheim doesn't stop there. The song structures he employs are often influenced by 20th Century classical music and feature tense, circular melodies instead of immediately catchy pop tunes.
As a young man, Stephen Sondheim started off as a lyricist for composers, penning the words to such revolutionary blockbuster shows as <I>West Side Story</I> (music by Leonard Bernstein), <I>Gypsy</I> (music by Jules Stein) and <I>Do I Hear a Waltz</I> (music by Richard Rodgers, the old working partner of Sondheim's theatre mentor, Oscar Hammerstein). While Sondheim would have entered the history books for his work on <I>West Side Story</I> alone, he started writing the music as well as words for musicals with the 1962 hit <I>A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum</I>. An old fashioned romp, <I>Forum</I> would be the last time that Sondheim would put out a crowd pleaser with broad audience appeal.
His next success, <I>Company</I> (1970), was an impressionistic look at an isolated bachelor looking in on his married friends, all of whom were in various states of domestic distress. After this, <I>Follies</I> and <I>A Little Night Music</I> (which contained his biggest hit, "Send in the Clowns") continued to broaden the Broadway spectrum and win him widespread critical praise. In 1979, Sondheim released <I>Sweeney Todd</I>, one of his darkest works. Unrelentingly bleak, yet bitingly funny, <i>Sweeney Todd</i> is based on the classic tale of cannibalism for fun and profit. <I>Todd</I>'s combination of bloody <I>grand guignol</I>, mordant comedy and tragic romance even came with an underlying metaphor about how even justifiable revenge can lead to madness and loss instead of closure and vindication. This perfect mix of horror, heart, tension, doomed love and comedy became Sondheim's biggest solo hit.
Instead of repeating himself, Sondheim followed <I>Todd</I> with the twin triumphs of <I>Sunday in the Park With George</I> (1984) and <I>Into the Woods</I> (1987), both of which balanced unique theatrical experiences and personal insight with experimental structures that still managed to enrapture audiences. These two musicals would be the last of Sondheim first-run shows to be commercially successful, as Broadway turned more and more towards the kind of big, escapist entertainments that could pay back their Hollywood-sized investments. In this modern climate, Sondheim has refused to compromise, releasing pungent works such as <I>Assassins</I> (1991), a musical spotlighting the deluded, often insane souls who have killed (or pathetically, failed to kill) U.S. presidents. The fact that Sondheim marries such dark material to a theme about America's obsession with "being somebody" doesn't sit well with mainstream audiences who expect costumed cats or Abba songs when they go to a Broadway show. In these more modern times, Stephen Sondheim finds it increasingly difficult to get the funding to stage new works, but contradictorily, his old musicals (many of which were originally rejected by audiences) have been revived to ecstatic reviews and solid box office receipts. It seems that while Stephen Sondheim is often ahead of his audience, they always come around eventually.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Alain Boublil</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:31:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel ShÃÂÃÂ¶nberg are the men behind at least two of the 20th century's most powerful musical juggernauts: <I>Les Miserables</I> and <I>Miss Saigon.</I> <I>Les Mis</I> debuted in Paris in the late 1970s and found its way to London by 1985, but it was only when it hit Broadway that Americans really took notice. Two Tony awards and one Grammy later, and <I>Les Mis</I> is ubiquitous. Drawn from the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo, the tale of unjust imprisonment and class stratification is as relevant now as it was in 19th century France. <I>Miss Saigon</I> similarly takes on a weighty topic, transforming the "Madame Butterfly" tale by placing it in Vietnam during the final days of the Vietnam war. Boublil and ShÃÂÃÂ¶nberg are known for their wit and rock-influenced compositional style, no doubt a huge reason for their mainstream success.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>John Kander and Fred Ebb</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:14:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kander and Ebb are one of the few modern Broadway tunesmith teams whose work can rank with the past masters of the golden age. They incorporated jazz and dark, biting wit into their groundbreaking work for Bob Fosse on <I>Cabaret</i> and <i>Chicago</i>. For Martin Scorsese, they penned "New York, New York," which has become the official theme song
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>George Gershwin</title>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the true giants of American music, George Gershwin combined exceptional songcraft with a keen interest in both the new jazz and European experimental scenes, and in the process forever changed the way songs are written and performed. Gershwin brought sophisticated song structures to the dozens of great standards he wrote with his brother Ira -- "They Can't Take That Away From Me," "I Got Rhythm," and "Someone To Watch Over Me" are among his many classics. His depression-era political satire, "Of Thee I Sing," won the first Pulitzer Prize for a musical entry. He dazzled audiences with his longer pieces, "Rhapsody in Blue" and "An American in Paris," as well as with his tenacious piano playing. He wrote what may be the only great American opera, "Porgy and Bess." The fact that he did all this in a mad rush is all the more impressive, as the young composer died of a brain tumor in 1937.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Cole Porter</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cole Porter is considered the single greatest songwriter to work in the American theater. His songs
allow you to enter a rarified, adult world full of sophisticated lovers who embrace frivolous fun while
nursing broken hearts. To Porter, love was a martini that caused one hell of a high, but an even worse hangover. His music was as intelligent as his lyrics, and could be complex and catchy at the same time. Such songs as "Night and Day," "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "I Get a Kick Out of You" are still recorded regularly by vocalists and jazz musicians. A Cole Porter song is the perfect marriage between style and substance.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Alan Menken</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:31:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Charles Strouse</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:08:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Charles Strouse is one of the more decorated songwriters of his generation. He's the man behind relentless songs like "Tomorrow" and "It's a Hard-Knock Life" (give thanks, Jay-Z) from the <I>Annie</I> soundtrack, which is one of a only handful of musical soundtracks to go gold. He's won Tony awards for the music in <I>Annie</I>, <I>Bye Bye Birdie</I> and <I>Applause</I>, and left an indelible mark on American popular culture. He also co-wrote the theme song "Those Were the Days" for the '70s sitcom <I>All in the Family.</I>
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Sutton Foster</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:49:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Clark Gesner</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Gesner's songs are light, fluffy, silly -- in a word, perfect for the Broadway stage. His lyrics are fairly clever, although with titles like "The Jello Is Always Red" and songs about alligators' eating habits, they may appeal more to children. Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers are likely influences.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Emile Pandolfi</title>
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<category>Instrumental Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:24:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lush, calming piano renditions of all your favorite tunes, from Broadway shows to Holiday classics and popular film themes. Pandolfi's fingers bring out florid chords and melodies like an orchestra, soothing away your troubles like a warm breeze.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Gerome Ragni and James Rado</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:10:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Gerome Ragni and James Redo are best known for writing the hit musical <I>Hair</I>, whose songs "Aquarius," "Good Morning Starshine" and "Let the Sunshine In" are still part of America's musical lexicon and emblematic of a generation. Even Nina Simone was a fan, reworking "Ain't Got No" to marvelous effect. (Songs like "Sodomy" and "Hashish," on the other hand, seem to have been successfully forgotten.) Ragni followed up <I>Hair</I> with the 1972 musical <I>Dude</I>, which ran for just two weeks and had critics politely scratching their heads. <I>Dude</I>'s 1995 revival fared no better.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Joss Whedon</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:47:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Idina Menzel</title>
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<category>Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:44:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Known for her Tony-nominated performance in <i>Rent</i>, Menzel offers her own soulful pop-tronica songs rife with sampled beats, jazzy bass and piano melodies, and sultry, energized vocals.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>Lerner &amp; Loewe</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:41:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Fred Astaire</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:15:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Original Broadway Cast</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:38 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:07:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Julie Taymor</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:17:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Julie Andrews</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:22:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Whether you know her as Mary Poppins or as Thoroughly Modern Millie or just about any of the other characters she may have integrated into your life, Julie Andrews is an instantly recognizable facet of the silver screen. Her dedication to the filmed musical has also brought about some of the most instantly recognizable moments of the genre. Even musical-hating ruffians will recognize her in <I>The Sound of Music</I>. Blessed with a sincere vocal tone that lends itself to standards and show tunes, Andrews' easy-listening approach is both comforting and relaxed --making it perfect for appropriation by either family events or campy drag queen galas.]]></description>
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<title>Frank Wildhorn</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:31:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Mandy Patinkin</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:17:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:10:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:10:46 -0700</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:33:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:28:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:43:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:56:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:00:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:51:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:25:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:35:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When not celebrating the Great White Way, these scrappy moppets hang their vocal baubles all over Tinsel Town. Sugary sing-along vocals, sometimes with Kathy Lee Gifford and Petula Clark lending a hand. A good way to indoctrinate the fruit of your loins in the work of Porter and Sondheim.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Irving Berlin</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:56:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Irving Berlin was the first songwriter to pen distinctly modern American music for the Broadway theatre. His songs span almost the entire twentieth century, and while they don't have George Gershwin's or Cole Porter's sophistication, they still glow with a scrappy charm all their own. He literally had hundreds of hits, including such standards as "Cheek to Cheek," "Blue Skies" and "White Christmas," which may just be the single biggest selling song in history with all its various recorded versions. Our favorite Berlin moment may just be the duet of "Puttin' on the Ritz" from <I>Young Frankenstein</I>, but the darkly ironic "Let's Face the Music and Dance" is a perfect match for our romantically jaded era.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Studio Artist</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:44:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>William Youmans</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:59:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">William Youmans</rhap:artist>
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<title>Ben Vereen</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:24:04 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Ben Vereen</rhap:artist>
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<title>Candye Kane</title>
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<category>Jump Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:16 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[San Diego, California singer with a sultry, seductive voice incorporates Jump Blues, pop, early jazz styles and rock 'n' roll into her songs, and is accompanied by a tight, swinging band. She seems completely at home with the different genres, mixing and matching them to create her own unique style.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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