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| Lyrics & Lyricists: Deborah Grace Winer, series artistic director |
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 Dear Friends,
Welcome to the 40th anniversary season of Lyrics & Lyricists™. In 40 years we’ve grown from a gleam in founder Maurice Levine’s eye into the country’s premier American Songbook concert series.
For our anniversary season, we bring you top-flight guest artistic directors and performers from Broadway, jazz and cabaret, offering a fraesh take on one of our greatest American art forms. Please join us for a terrific season 40 years in the making!
Yours,
—Deborah Grace Winer
Series Artistic Director
Deborah Grace Winer is a journalist and playwright, who has written extensively about the American Songbook. She is now in her second season as Lyrics & Lyricists™ series artistic director and for the 2010 season she is both co-artistic director of the November “I Remember You” Johnny Mercer Centennial Tribute Concert with her colleague and mentor Robert Kimball, and artistic director of the March “Fred and Ginger in So Many Words,” the Astaire-Rogers Songbook program. She has led three previous Lyrics & Lyricists shows: “Dorothy’s Side of the Street,” the Dorothy Fields Centennial tribute; “The Last Girl Singer,” a tribute to her friend Rosemary Clooney; and “I’ve Got Your Number: Romance, the Rat Pack and Carolyn Leigh.”
Winer is the author of On the Sunny Side of the Street: The Life and Lyrics of Dorothy Fields—the only book written about Dorothy Fields’ life and work; The Night and The Music: Rosemary Clooney, Barbara Cook and Julie Wilson Inside the World of Cabaret; and is co-author of Sing Out, Louise!: 150 Broadway Musical Stars Remember 50 Years, and I Remember Too Much: 89 Opera Stars Speak Candidly of Their Work, Their Lives and Their Colleagues. She also authored three companion coffee table books included in each of three box sets (22 CDs in all) of the complete early recordings of Rosemary Clooney (Bear Family).
Winer’s articles on music have appeared in the New York Times and Town and Country, among other publications. She was featured on the PBS American Masters special, Yours for a Song: The Women of Tin Pan Alley and on the A&E Biography of Rosemary Clooney, and she has appeared on NPR’s Fresh Air and Morning Edition. Winer’s plays have been developed at Lincoln Center Theater, the Women’s Project, the Actors Studio and the Westport Country Playhouse, among other theaters. Her play, The Last Girl Singer, starring Tony Award-winner Kelly Bishop, was produced Off-Broadway.
Winer has also written many benefit shows for venues like New York City Center and Town Hall, including Fans!: the Sally Rand Centennial Celebration, and Gotta Dance: A Dance Tribute to Hollywood, featuring Mary Tyler Moore, Cyd Charisse, Esther Williams and others. Winer is a native of Manhattan and a graduate of Swarthmore College. |
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| Show information and tickets for Lyrics & Lyricists 2010. |
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Listen to Deborah Grace Winer's conversation with Julian Fleisher last year..
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