I never knew Vernon Duke but I have been working with him for fifteen years now and I'm delighted to report that we are finally, finally, getting someplace. This past week, his spirit and I spent two thrilling days in a Manhattan recording studio, witnessing our "new" musical, Misia, recorded for posterity -- and for imminent commercial release. Let me explain. Before his death in 1969, Vernon Duke wrote some of the great standards of the American songbook: "April in Paris," "Autumn in New York,...
I never knew Vernon Duke but I have been working with him for fifteen years now and I'm delighted to report that we are finally, finally, getting someplace. This past week, his spirit and I spent two thrilling days in a Manhattan recording studio, witnessing our "new" musical, Misia, recorded for posterity -- and for imminent commercial release. Let me explain. Before his death in 1969, Vernon Duke wrote some of the great standards of the American songbook: "April in Paris," "Autumn in New York,...
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