Nov

15 2016

Songs of Irving Berlin

1:30PM - 2:55PM  

JCC of Middlesex County 1775 Oak Tree Rd
Edison, NJ 08820
732-494-3232 shorwitz@jccmc.org
http://www.jccmc.org

Contact Sue Horwitz
732-494-3232
shorwitz@jccmc.org
http://www.jccmc.org


Performer:  Barbara McCarthy, accompanied on piano by Regan Ryzuk

Barbara returns to sing songs of Irving Berlin and share a bit of his personal and professional life. 
When you begin “Stepping Out”  in your “Top Hat” you think you’re “Putting on the Ritz”.  “Count Your Blessings”, such as the “Blue Skies”  above and the music of Irving Berlin, America’s most prolific and popular songwriter.  He couldn’t read nor write music, but as Jerome Kern said of him, “He not only wrote American music, he WAS American music.  He became the King of Tin Pan Alley with his first hit, “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” at the age of twenty-one.

He continued writing over 1500 songs for another eighty one years.  Among the songs in this show are “Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee”,  “What’ll I Do?”, and “Always”.  Audiences love it, “They Say It’s Wonderful”!