True Concord Voices & Orchestra ends its "The American Dream" season with a concert focused on the Great American Songbook ...
Clipper City Chordsmen’s 'Happy Birthday Uncle Sam' Spring Show salutes America 250 with patriotic favorites and four-part ...
Jim leaves the bright lights of show business behind to settle down on his farmhouse in Connecticut... but life just isn't the same without a bit of song and dance. Jim's luck takes a spectacular turn ...
The premise of The Bride! is hidden from its advertising. Writer-director Maggie Gyllenhaal opens on Mary Shelley (an acidic Jessie Buckley) stuck in a black-and-white purgatory of sorts, only her ...
How Hollywood became the center for making musicals. It was the golden age from the '30s through the '50s. Broadway bombed. Hollywood boomed. Movies learned to talk. The stock market crashed in 1929 ...
Exactly 100 years ago, on Jan. 4, 1926, legendary American Jewish songwriter Irving Berlin married Ellin Mackay, a Roman Catholic heiress, in a civil ceremony in Manhattan’s City Hall. What some ...
Jason Riley’s excellent column “Identity Politics: My Professional Look-Alikes” (Upward Mobility, Dec. 24) reminded me of the story of Winston Churchill confusing Isaiah Berlin, a British historian ...
In 1940, legendary composer and songwriter Irving Berlin told his musical arranger Helmy Kresa that “White Christmas” was not only the best song he ever wrote, but also “the best song anybody ever ...
Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...
FARGO — Last week’s snow storm postponed the Fargo Theatre’s screening of the holiday classic “White Christmas” to this Tuesday. The 1954 musical features the music of Irving Berlin, most notably the ...
The publication shared the list earlier this week and it features a total of 50 tracks broken up into two categories. The first category, rounded up by writer Jon Caramanica, has "Caramel" from Sleep ...