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  • “Moonlight in Vermont”: Music without rhyme with Sinatra & Ella

    August 18, 2017

    For Robert Pinsky, who observed that "Moonlight in Vermont" is one of the only standards — possibly the only one — without a rhyme. I'll have to check; I have a feeling that Hammerstein…

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  • Let’s take an old-fashioned walk. . .

    August 18, 2017

    "But when you haven't a sou, / There's only one thing to do / Let's take an old-fashioned walk, / I'm just bursting with talk. . ." What Irving Berlin wrote in 1949 as…

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  • Shall We Dance? (Rodgers & Hammerstein; 1956)

    August 18, 2017

       

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  • Meet Me at the Copa Tonight. . .

    August 17, 2017

       

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  • Sway Me Smooth with Rita Hayworth

    August 16, 2017

       

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  • Remembering Liam Rector on the 10th Anniversary of His Death (Terence Winch)

    August 15, 2017

    It's difficult for me to accept that 10 years have passed since my old friend Liam Rector took his own life. We had known each other since my early days in Washington, DC, where…

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