Jerome Kern

We’re turning to the first of two programs on this week’s Dress Circle (10/19 7:00 p.m.) that will feature some of our favorite songs from stage and screen musicals and soundtracks. Michael is up first, and he’s chosen 13 vastly different songs that really do express his rather eclectic tastes, and by no means is this even the tip of the iceberg of the list of his “favorites.”

When George Gershwin died just a few weeks short of his 39th birthday, his brother and writing partner, Ira, was devastated and withdrew from public life and writing. It took Kurt Weill, Moss Hart, and a musical about psychoanalysis to get Ira writing again, and on this week’s Dress Circle (9/28 7:00 p.m.), we’ll be looking at some of the works that Ira penned after George.

With everything going on, we’re looking everywhere we can to find some happiness, and, of course, we turned to the musicals, and on this week’s Dress Circle (7/20 7:00 p.m.), we’ve compiled a playlist of some of the songs that make us happy.

February is another lean month for New York musical openings, but we’re still going to sample songs from ten of them on this week’s Dress Circle (2/2 7:00 p.m.) spanning 114 years of Broadway history.

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…