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Sunday,
November 6,
2011
(19:00)
ORIGINALLY AIRED APRIL 5, 2011 |
BBC Radio 2:
They Write The Songs |
Barry Manilow looks at the life and work of
American composer Frank Loesser
They Write The Songs: Barry Manilow looks at the lives and works of ten famous composers of the Great American Songbook. He explores their genius through rare recordings and de-constructs their songs at his piano.
Recorded at Barry's home in America, the series gives a songwriter's insight into the art and craft of songwriting, covering over 60 years of composition.
This week he celebrates Frank Loesser, the Pulitzer, Tony and Academy award-winning lyricist and songwriter. Born in New York in 1910, Loesser was briefly a newspaper reporter before his first lyrics (In Love with the Memory of You) were published in 1931. He moved to Hollywood where he wrote songs for dozens of films and whilst serving in World War II, he began writing music in addition to words. His compositions included Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition, Heart and Soul [aka Chopsticks - the music was written by Hoagy Carmichael] and he picked up an Oscar in 1949 for Baby, It's Cold Outside. His major film score was Hans Christian Andersen (1952), which provided Danny Kaye with several memorable songs, while his stage successes included Guys and Dolls (1953) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1963) which is currently playing on Broadway, with Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe. Frank died of lung cancer in 1969 and was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame the following year.
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Sunday,
November 13,
2011
(19:00)
ORIGINALLY AIRED APRIL 12, 2011 |
BBC Radio 2:
They Write The Songs |
Barry Manilow looks at the life and work of
American composer Leonard Bernstein
They Write The Songs: Barry Manilow looks at the lives and works of ten famous composers of the Great American Songbook. He explores their genius through rare recordings and de-constructs their songs at his piano.
Recorded at Barry's home in America, the series gives a songwriter's insight into the art and craft of songwriting, covering over 60 years of composition.
This week Barry Manilow turns his attention to the composer Leonard Bernstein, who was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on 25 August 1918. Bernstein is particularly unusual - whereas Gershwin was a popular composer who aspired to write classical music - Bernstein was a classical musician who wrote popular music. Through musical successes such as On The Town, Candide and West Side Story he brought a complexity of arranging styles and musicianship that was unrivalled amongst Broadway composers. Barry shows how Bernstein's ability to orchestrate his own melodies had such a great impact on musical theatre and defined Bernstein as a composer. As he deconstructs West Side Story's Officer Krupke, Barry illustrates Bernstein's expert use of dissonant chords and rhythm structures.
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Sunday,
November 20,
2011
(19:00)
ORIGINALLY AIRED APRIL 19, 2011 |
BBC Radio 2:
They Write The Songs |
Barry Manilow looks at the life and work of
Broadway and Hollywood composer Jule Styne
They Write The Songs: Barry Manilow looks at the lives and works of ten famous composers of the Great American Songbook. He explores their genius through rare recordings and de-constructs their songs at his piano.
Recorded at Barry's home in America, the series gives a songwriter's insight into the art and craft of songwriting, covering over 60 years of composition.
This week he celebrates Jule Styne, the vocal coach turned Broadway and Hollywood composer, who was born in England in 1905. During a successful career, which included collaborations with Frank Loesser (previously featured in this series), Sammy Cahn (Time After Time), Leo Robin (Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend) and Stephen Sondheim (Gypsy), Styne won two Grammy awards, a Tony award, an Oscar and was inducted into the Songwriters' Hall of Fame. This programme includes a never-before-heard Barry Manilow recording, made when he was just three years old. Barry's grandfather recognised that his young grandson had talent and at the weekend they would take a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, into Manhattan, where there was a recording booth. You put in a quarter and made a recording and, remarkably, the ones Barry made in this way have survived! We hear evidence of Barry's precocious talent in a tune written by Jule Styne, Papa Won't You Dance with Me.
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Sunday,
November 27,
2011
(19:00)
ORIGINALLY AIRED APRIL 26, 2011 |
BBC Radio 2:
They Write The Songs |
Barry Manilow looks at the life and work of
the songwriting duo Rodgers and Hart
They Write The Songs: Barry Manilow looks at the lives and works of his favourite composers, de-constructing their songs at his piano.
Recorded at Barry's home in America, the series gives a songwriter's insight into the art and craft of songwriting, covering over 60 years of composition.
This week he celebrates a songwriting duo - Rodgers and Hart. Richard Rodgers wrote with Lorenz Hart for twenty years in one of the most successful of songwriting partnerships. He then went on to write with Oscar Hammerstein for another twenty years - a feat which no other composer has equaled. Tonight we begin a two part exploration of the work of Richard Rodgers, beginning with his relationship with Lorenz Hart. The son of German immigrants, lyricist Lorenz Hart began his theatrical career by translating German plays, while the New York-born Richard Rodgers studied composition at the Institute of Musical Art (now the Juilliard School), before their partnership began in 1919. After five years of failure Rodgers was about to give up and become a clothing salesman, when the two had a breakthrough hit - Manhattan. From that point on Rodgers and Hart created an almost unbroken stream of hits, including the shows On Your Toes, A Connecticut Yankee and Pal Joey. Among the pair's songs: My Romance; The Lady Is a Tramp; and a song that started life as The Prayer, followed by The Bad in Every Man, before becoming a smash hit as Blue Moon.
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Sunday,
December 4,
2011
(19:00)
ORIGINALLY AIRED MAY 3, 2011 |
BBC Radio 2:
They Write The Songs |
Barry Manilow looks at the life and work of
the songwriting duo Rodgers and Hammerstein
They Write The Songs: Barry Manilow looks at the lives and works of his favourite composers, de-constructing their songs at his piano.
Recorded at Barry's home in America, the series gives a songwriter's insight into the art and craft of songwriting, covering over 60 years of composition.
Barry Manilow looks at the second episode in Richard Rodger's career, his songwriting partnership with the lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The grandson of theatre impresario Oscar Hammerstein, Oscar II was writing books and lyrics for Broadway musicals by the early 1920s. Among his early collaborators were Vincent Youmans, Rudolph Friml and Jerome Kern (with whom he wrote Showboat in 1927), before he formed his famous partnership with Richard in 1943. During their 16-year collaboration, Rodgers and Hammerstein produced the enduring classics Oklahoma! Carousel, The King and I, The Sound of Music and the Pulitzer Prize-winning South Pacific. After Hammerstein's death in 1960, Rodgers wrote his own lyrics to No Strings and collaborated with Stephen Sondheim on Do I Hear a Waltz. His last show was 1970's Two by Two.
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Monday,
December 5,
2011
(taping)Wednesday,
December 14,
2011
(7:30pm-10:10pm)
(airing) |
Royal Variety Performance
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Barry on Royal Variety Performance
This year’s Royal Variety Performance will be held at the Lowry’s Lyric Theatre, alford Quays, Salford, Manchester, on Monday, 5th December 2011
Peter Kay hosts The Royal Variety Performance 2011 from The Lowry at Salford Quays in Manchester in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal. The bill features the very best of British and international talent, including the legendary Tony Bennett, Cee Lo Green, Nicole Scherzinger, Barry Manilow, Britain's Got Talent winner Jai McDowall, Penn & Teller, Il Divo, Leona Lewis and Pixie Lott. Plus Adam Cooper and the cast of the musical Singin' In The Rain give an exclusive performance ahead of the show's West End opening next year, and there are laughs from comedians Jason Manford, Greg Davies and Tim Minchin.
Barry performs a medley of his hits "Mandy" and "Can't Smile Without You"! |
Sunday,
December 11,
2011
(19:00)
ORIGINALLY AIRED MAY 10, 2011 |
BBC Radio 2:
They Write The Songs |
Barry Manilow looks at the life and work of
Jerry Herman
They Write The Songs: Barry Manilow looks at the lives and works of his favourite composers, de-constructing their songs at his piano.
Recorded at Barry's home in America, the series gives a songwriter's insight into the art and craft of songwriting, covering over 60 years of composition.
Gerald Herman was born in New York in 1931 and raised in Jersey. Self-taught as a musician, he studied drama at the University of Miami, where he began writing for revue. His first big success on Broadway came with 1961's Milk and Honey, which picked up Grammy and Tony nominations, but it was Hello, Dolly! that really launched him into the big time. Opening in 1964, Hello, Dolly! ran for 2,844 performances and became Broadway's longest-running musical. It won ten Tony awards, including Best Composer and Lyricist, while the 1969 film adaptation picked up three Oscars. Herman's later works include Mame, Mack and Mabel, and La Cage Aux Folles, while subsequent accolades include the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Awards, induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Tony Awards' Lifetime Achievement Award, and a 2010 Kennedy Center Honor.
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