Other songwriters who may get the trio's treatment include Frank Loesser (famous for the musical "Guys and Dolls" and many others ), Jerome Kern ("Show Boat"), and Worcester Academy alum Cole Porter.įeinstein said that he's also been performing a tribute to Fred Astaire interspersed with narrative anecdotes "that works very nicely," along with a sequence of songs associated with Frank Sinatra. The request segment usually occurs when Feinstein is performing songs by the legendary George and Ira Gershwin, with whom, as we shall see, he has some special familiarity. The audience can likely take the initiative and make some requests when the Michael Feinstein Trio performs at The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts, 2 Southbridge St., Worcester, at 8 p.m.
"The songs have survived 100 years in some cases, and will continue to survive." Indeed, he puts on an annual high school competition as part of the Michael Feinstein Great American Songbook Initiative in which there are "thousands of kids in their teens who just love these songs," Feinstein observed. "Yes, very much so," Feinstein replied during a recent telephone interview.
Is the said songbook - broadly defined as popular American music including songs from Broadway and Hollywood musicals from the 1920s to 1960s - alive and well in 2013? As someone who has been called "The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook," Grammy Award-nominated singer, pianist, archivist and "musical revivalist" Michael Feinstein should be in a good position to give a state of the art assessment.
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