Jerome Kern News

Birdland has announced its upcoming May program!

Elaine Delmar revisits Pizza Express Maidstone on Sunday May 12 when she will be accompanied by the very accomplished Barry Green on piano. As one of Pizza Express's most popular artist, she is a great favourite with both jazz and cabaret audiences and is one of the greatest female jazz vocalists to have come from these shores. Among a multitude of good jazz singers in Britain today, there are few who understand stand the repertoire or express it with such dynamic simplicity and deliver it with such an enticing stage personality.

From Baroque to Broadway! and new music too! Bach, Vivaldi, Verdi, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Andrew Lloyd Webber music from 'Show Boat' and 'The Sound of Music' featuring soprano Jeannine Otis in a new arrangement of 'Fenway Love' Georgette Ionesco flute, Dan Auerbach violin, bass Kofi Hayford. In commemoration of May 4th being International Star Wars Day the CSI Orchestra will perform the main theme to Star Wars side by side with the Richmond County Orchestra (RCO).

Celebrating its fifth and final installment of "Bold New Works for Intimate Stages," Creative Cauldron presents the world premiere of On Air. Set in Pittsburgh, PA during the 1920s, On Air tells the story of Frank and Flora Conrad, who were on the edge of discovering mass broadcasting. These two unsung radio pioneers established the first radio station in America in their unassuming garage. On Air follows their untold love story, and how radio became a constant companion, messenger and soundtrack of our lives over the past century of American life. Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith, the critically acclaimed creative team for Creative Cauldron's past Bold New Work premieres (Turn of the Screw 2015, Monsters of the Villa Diodati 2016, Kaleidoscope 2017, Witch 2018,) are mining the nostalgia of a bygone era and shedding light on a relatively unknown piece of American history with this newest work. On Air runs May 2 - 26, 2019.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley continues its 2018/19 season with the World Premiere of Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story, written and performed by piano virtuoso Hershey Felder, who shattered box office records at TheatreWorks with his acclaimed portrayals of Irving Berlin, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky. Now, Felder captures the life and music of Impressionist composer Claude Debussy, a visionary who proclaimed nature his religion, creating music of ravishing beauty, color, and compassion, from the sweeping "La mer" to the evocative "Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune" and the mystical "Clair de lune." Intertwined with Debussy's story, Felder for the first time shares his own deeply personal connection to the City of Light. Directed by Trevor Hay, Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story will be presented April 3 - May 5, 2019 (press opening: April 6, 2019) at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro Street, Mountain View. For tickets ($40-$120) and more information the public may visit TheatreWorks.org or call (650) 463-1960.

The Axelrod Performing Arts Center (APAC) presents "The Best is Yet to Come," a tribute to the Tony Bennett songbook, on April 14 featuring star vocalist and saxophonist Danny Bacher, who recently appeared at Carnegie Hall.

Today's subject, Kristin Chenoweth, has been living her theatre life to the fullest since 1993 when Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ cast her as the ingénue in their production of Animal Crackers. The show effectively launched her career and she went on to become a Tony Award-winning actress, and a highly successful recording and concert artist. She has also made many appearances on television and in film. On April 8th you will have the privilege of seeing this immense talent live onstage at The Music Center at Strathmore and, judging from past performances, it's going to a great evening of music.

This summer, the Bard Music Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary season with a two-week, in-depth exploration of 'Korngold and His World.'

After performing last year at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Joan Ryan, winner of BroadwayWorld's Top Cabaret Artist Award and star of the hit cult favorite musical Ruthless! is thrilled to bring her acclaimed one woman show Joan Ryan Live! to Birdland Jazz on May 16 at 7pm.

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has announced that the World Premiere of Hershey Felder: A Paris Love Story, with more than a week to go before its first performance, has already established a new all-time box office record for the 49 year-old Bay Area theatre company.

Jackie Draper and Repeal the Blues returns to the Laurie Beechman Theatre, on Sunday, March 24th at 1:00 PM and Thursday, April 11th at 7:00 PM. Draper will perform in song and dance, in English and French, to banish the blues. Composers and lyricists presented include Charles Aznavour, Irving Berlin, Cy Coleman, Dietz & Schwartz, the Gershwins, Jerome Kern, Michele Legrand, Lieber & Stoller, Johnny Mandel and many more.

As part of its citywide festival, Migrations: The Making of America, Carnegie Hall presents a special one-night-only event entitled From Shtetl to Stage: A Celebration of Yiddish Music and Culture in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Monday, April 15 at 8:00 p.m. Led by Music Director Frank London, the program celebrates the journey of Yiddish culture from Old World to New through music, song, poetry, and humor.

In January, Ariana Grande dropped her latest single, and its accompanying music video, '7 Rings.' The song features her sampling the famous Sound of Music number, 'My Favorite Things.' According to The New York Times, the song just topped Billboard's singles chart for the sixth time. The song is credited to 10 writers, but Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the original 'My Favorite Things,' control 90% of the songwriting royalties. That makes this chart-topping hit not only a huge victory for Grande, but a huge victory for the musical theatre legends as well!

In 10th Grade, I was in the chorus of a production of Oklahoma! in the auditorium of my synagogue and it was the best theatrical experience I've ever had. I remember getting home from the closing night cast party and crying myself to sleep. I could cry now putting on the movie or listening to 'The Farmer and the Cowman,' or maybe most of all, if I sing a little bit of the introduction to the title song.

Don't Tell Mama brings New Generation Theater Company's 'Top Hat, White Tie and Tails: A Celebration of The American Songbook' to New York City for a one night only engagement. This production features selections from the canon of the most important and influential jazz standards from the early 20th century. This night will feature songs made famous by composers such as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rogers and more. For Sentimental Reasons, this is one show that will have you singing along all night. The performance will play Today, March 9th 2019 at 7:00pm at Don't Tell Mama NYC.

Though Stephen Sondheim has written both music and lyrics for some of the finest scores of the 20th century Lyrics & Lyricists puts Sondheim's lyrics in the spotlight for its next production Sondheim: Wordplay.

Bay Street Theater is pleased to announce the first show of the 2019 Mainstage Season will be the World Premiere of THE PROMPTER (May 28- June 16) a new comedy by Wade Dooley; directed by Scott Schwartz, Bay Street Theater's Artistic Director. The other two previously announced shows will be the World Premiere of SAFE SPACE, which will now run from June 25 - July 21. This new play is by Alan Fox and will be directed by three-time Tony Award Winner Jack O'Brien (All My Sons, Hairspray, The Coast of Utopia). The third show will be a bold new re-envisioning of Irving Berlin's classic musical ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, (July 30 - August 25) with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin, book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields. This production will be directed by Sarna Lapine (Sunday in the Park with George, Bay Street's Frost/Nixon). The casts and creative teams will be announced soon. Subscriptions are available by calling the Box Office at 631-725-9500 or online at www.baystreet.org.

Don't Tell Mama brings New Generation Theater Company's 'Top Hat, White Tie and Tails: A Celebration of The American Songbook' to New York City for a one night only engagement. This production features selections from the canon of the most important and influential jazz standards from the early 20th century. This night will feature songs made famous by composers such as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rogers and more. For Sentimental Reasons, this is one show that will have you singing along all night. The performance will play Saturday, March 9th 2019 at 7:00pm at Don't Tell Mama NYC.

This summer's 16th annual Bard SummerScape festival comprises more than seven weeks of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret, centered around the 30th anniversary season of the Bard Music Festival, 'Korngold and His World.'

This summer's 16th annual Bard SummerScape festival comprises more than seven weeks of music, opera, theater, dance, film, and cabaret, centered around the 30th anniversary season of the Bard Music Festival, 'Korngold and His World.' This intensive examination of the life and times of Erich Wolfgang Korngold