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What was it like to hear from your old accompanist, Barry Manilow, who called you to collaborate on a Rosemary Clooney tribute album? I was very surprised because our relationship had been quite fractious. I never really expected to hear from him again. But once we started working together, it was as if we had never stopped. He always gets the best performances out of me 'cause he won't take no for an answer...
This partnership between institutions would have been impossible without the contribution of Dance Program Coordinator Susan Larson. Before coming to Harvard, Larson was employed at Boston Ballet, first as an accompanist and then as director of operations at its school. Now at Harvard, she has brought her close ties to Boston Ballet with her. Bergmann describes Susan as “instrumental in making this relationship happen...
...DIED. ELLIS LARKINS, 79, jazz pianist best known as Ella Fitzgerald's accompanist on the albums Ella Sings Gershwin and Songs in a Mellow Mood; in Baltimore. Larkins, who began his career as a classical music child prodigy, brought to jazz an elegant, measured approach that contrasted with the wild exuberance of many of his contemporaries...
Jargon, indeed, was the theme of the ceremony. The world premiere of librettist Marc Abraham’s “The Jargon Opera” also amused the audience between the presentation of awards. The accompanist, Gregory Neil, was billed as the pianist “with a broken hand...
...those of the Bible, confessing, “Sonheim is Shakespeare as far as I’m concerned.” After mentioning his work with Sondheim as one of the great three collaborations of his life, Patinkin named the other two as those with his long-time accompanist, Paul Ford and with David E. Kelley, the creator of “Chicago Hope.” He became quiet and pensive at the mention of balancing work and family. A husband and father of two boys, Patinkin warned students that, “If you?...