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penpusherThere's nothing like a meme to get the year off to a fun start. And since The Grammy Awards are returning to NYC this month, this seems like a perfect choice.
I should say, I'm going to alter the original meme here and there just to make it something I want to do and something I think would be more interesting to talk about.
Honestly, this first task is a massive challenge! How do you select one song as a "favorite?"
The short answer is you can't. So. let's be real. This selection isn't my favorite song. It's just my favorite song at this moment, today as I'm being forced to select one.
As the year is new, everything seems possible and we are looking forward to some new and fresh positives, I have to go with something on the upbeat side of things.
I don't know if you know it, but I'm something of a geek when comes to pop culture, and that's true for Broadway. I'm a big fan of Stephen Sondheim of course, and not that much of a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber. I like the older style pieces like Jerry Herman and Jule Styne, and the Richard Rodgers pairings with both Lorenz Hart and Ocscar Hammerstein... but I'm forgoing all of that. In fact, I'm selecting a Broadway song that isn't from a cast album. Sacrilege!
Stephen Schwartz has a great legacy composing for brilliant shows from the Great White Way, including Godspell, Pippin and Wicked. He's also done the requisite Disney musicals, including "Pocahontas" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," two of my least favorite in the Mouse Canon, but that's okay.
But one of his often forgotten works is a musical titled "The Baker's Wife." a show that will evoke elements of both Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" and Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George.
There is a reason I selected the song I did from another source than a cast album. The fact is, in context, the song can be seen in not quite the same positive way as it is presented, singuarly. But I love the song, the message, the story it tells, and the freedom it evokes.
Liz Callaway is a long time Broadway and Cabaret performer, and this recording was made nearly eighteen years ago. The orchestrations, the vocals, the emotions... it all comes together brilliantly.
My selection for Day 1, "Meadowlark" by Liz Callaway
I should say, I'm going to alter the original meme here and there just to make it something I want to do and something I think would be more interesting to talk about.
Honestly, this first task is a massive challenge! How do you select one song as a "favorite?"
The short answer is you can't. So. let's be real. This selection isn't my favorite song. It's just my favorite song at this moment, today as I'm being forced to select one.
As the year is new, everything seems possible and we are looking forward to some new and fresh positives, I have to go with something on the upbeat side of things.
I don't know if you know it, but I'm something of a geek when comes to pop culture, and that's true for Broadway. I'm a big fan of Stephen Sondheim of course, and not that much of a fan of Andrew Lloyd Webber. I like the older style pieces like Jerry Herman and Jule Styne, and the Richard Rodgers pairings with both Lorenz Hart and Ocscar Hammerstein... but I'm forgoing all of that. In fact, I'm selecting a Broadway song that isn't from a cast album. Sacrilege!
Stephen Schwartz has a great legacy composing for brilliant shows from the Great White Way, including Godspell, Pippin and Wicked. He's also done the requisite Disney musicals, including "Pocahontas" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," two of my least favorite in the Mouse Canon, but that's okay.
But one of his often forgotten works is a musical titled "The Baker's Wife." a show that will evoke elements of both Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" and Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George.
There is a reason I selected the song I did from another source than a cast album. The fact is, in context, the song can be seen in not quite the same positive way as it is presented, singuarly. But I love the song, the message, the story it tells, and the freedom it evokes.
Liz Callaway is a long time Broadway and Cabaret performer, and this recording was made nearly eighteen years ago. The orchestrations, the vocals, the emotions... it all comes together brilliantly.
My selection for Day 1, "Meadowlark" by Liz Callaway