Beverly Cosham Sings Yip Harburg

About the Artist
The voice heard on this CD is that of Washington area chanteuse and actress Beverly Cosham. Her one-woman cabaret show has received wide acclaim from coast to coast, inspiring Washington Post critic Mike Joyce to write that "Cosham is a master at creating a warmly, evocative mood, no matter how familiar the lyric or how common the sentiment".

Beverly has performed at such diverse venues as the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage and the Shakespeare Theatre; and was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for her work in Rebel Armies Deep into Chad at Round House Theatre.

Her master class, Acting Up a Song, teaches participants to use their acting abilities to help convey a song to the listener. One reviewer validated Beverly’s approach by saying "the actress in her brings all the emotions behind the lyrics right to the surface, and she caresses both the audience and the lyrics".

While her most recent CD "At Last"; featured a variety of works from different sources, this album is the first one to focus on the creative output of one person: Yip Harburg.

Yip’s lyrics give Beverly an ideal setting to express her vocal artistry and bring new meaning to his songs once again.

Product Description
This CD features lyrics written by a single person: E.Y."Yip" Harburg. Throughout his long career (from the late 1920s to the early 1980s) he collaborated with some of the best composers writing for the stage and screen, among them Burton Lane, Vernon Duke, Arthur Schwartz and Harold Arlen. With these various partners he created some of the most enduring classics in the great American Songbook, two of the most recorded being "Over the Rainbow" and "Brother, Can You Spare Dime?"

This album features Beverly Cosham's interpretations of Yip's songs arranged by George Hummel in three basic settings: 1) piano and cello, 2) sextet (trumpet, trombone, sax, piano, bass, drums), 3) an 11-piece chamber orchestra.

The accompanying orchestrations showcase the wide range of emotion and stylistic variety that was a hallmark of Harburg's songs, Beverly's performance transcends all the usual genres and brings new meaning and a fresh interpretation to his lyrics.

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