Jerome Kern

Even though September is a quiet month for Broadway musical openings, we've turned to twelve shows covering 123 years of Broadway history from 1898 to 2021 for some wonderful songs.

We've combined the New York musical openings for July and August (for some reason) and arrived at a playlist of 11 shows spanning 153 years of Broadway history. We've also decided to turn to the overtures or opening orchestral pieces to give a fuller sense of these scores.

Dorothy Fields came from a fantastic showbusiness family, and her career as a musical lyricist and book-writer lasted nearly five decades. We're going to celebrate her talents on this program with songs from fourteen of her shows, many of which feature standards from the over 400 songs she co-wrote,.

This program looks at some of the musicals that have opened in New York during the month of August in a survey covering 115 years.

This is a selection of some of the songs from the musicals that lift us on bad days.

It’s time for a little Pop-Kern on this week’s Dress Circle (4/18 7:00 p.m.). While assembling a program for our jazz program Strike Up the Band, we found…

Since there are so many fewer show openings in July because it’s right after the Tonys and August because of the heat, we’ve always combined the months,…

There are two givens about the beginning of February: the weather will be inconsistent, but The Dress Circle (2/3 7:00 p.m.) will certainly be consistent…

One of our favorite singers will be featured on this week’s Dress Circle (10/8 7:00 p.m.) as we look at the legendary Ella Fitzgerald through her…