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9835_141	Launceston Examiner and North West Advocate publications
9835_142	See also Australian rules football in Tasmania
9835_143	Tasmanian Football League Defunct Australian rules football competitions in Tasmania
9835_144	1980 in Australian rules football
9836_0	Michael Jay Feinstein (born September 7, 1956) is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist.
9836_1	He is an interpreter of and an anthropologist and archivist for the repertoire known as the Great
9836_2	American Songbook. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical
9836_3	theatre songs. Feinstein is also a multi-platinum-selling, five-time Grammy-nominated recording
9836_4	artist. He currently serves as Artistic Director for The Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel,
9836_5	Indiana.
9836_6	Early life
9836_7	Feinstein was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Florence Mazie (née Cohen), an amateur tap dancer,
9836_8	and Edward Feinstein, a sales executive for the Sara Lee Corporation and a former amateur singer.
9836_9	He is Jewish. At the age of five, he studied piano for a couple of months until his teacher became
9836_10	angered that he was not reading the sheet music she gave him, since he was more comfortable playing
9836_11	by ear. As his mother saw no problem with her son's method, she took him out of lessons and allowed
9836_12	him to enjoy music his own way.
9836_13	Career
9836_14	After graduating from high school, Feinstein worked in local piano bars for two years, moving to
9836_15	Los Angeles when he was 20. Through the widow of concert pianist-actor Oscar Levant, in 1977 he was
9836_16	introduced to Ira Gershwin, who hired him to catalogue his extensive collection of phonograph
9836_17	records. The assignment led to six years of researching, cataloguing and preserving the unpublished
9836_18	sheet music and rare recordings in Gershwin's home, thus building an archive of not just Ira's
9836_19	works but also those of his composer brother George Gershwin, who had died four decades earlier.
9836_20	During Feinstein's years with Gershwin, he also got to know Gershwin's next-door neighbor, singer
9836_21	Rosemary Clooney, with whom Feinstein formed a close friendship lasting until Clooney's death.
9836_22	Feinstein served as musical consultant for the 1983 Broadway show My One and Only, a musical
9836_23	pastiche of Gershwin tunes.
9836_24	By the mid-1980s, Feinstein was a nationally known cabaret singer-pianist famed for being a
9836_25	proponent of the Great American Songbook. In 1986, he recorded his first CD, Pure Gershwin (1987),
9836_26	a collection of music by George and Ira Gershwin. He followed this with Live at the Algonquin
9836_27	(1986); Remember: Michael Feinstein Sings Irving Berlin (1987); Isn't It Romantic (1988), a
9836_28	collection of standards and his first album backed by an orchestra; and Over There (1989),
9836_29	featuring the music of America and Europe during the First World War. Feinstein recorded his only
9836_30	children's album, Pure Imagination, in 1992. In the 1987 episode "But Not For Me" of the TV series
9836_31	thirtysomething he sang "But Not For Me", "Love Is Here to Stay" and Isn't It Romantic? as parts of
9836_32	dream sequences.
9836_33	By 1988, Feinstein was starring on Broadway in a series of in-concert shows: Michael Feinstein in
9836_34	Concert (April through June 1988), Michael Feinstein in Concert: "Isn't It Romantic" (October
9836_35	through November 1988), and Michael Feinstein in Concert: Piano and Voice (October 1990). He
9836_36	returned to Broadway in 2010, in a concert special duo with Dame Edna titled All About Me (March
9836_37	through April 2010).
9836_38	1991 saw Feinstein's persona as a cabaret performer parodied in the third season of Mystery Science
9836_39	Theater 3000, which covered the Kaiju movie Gamera vs. Guiron. At the episode's close, Feinstein,
9836_40	played by the show's head writer Michael J. Nelson, and sang a cabaret version of the Gamera theme
9836_41	song to the characters Dr. Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank.
9836_42	In the early 1990s, Feinstein embarked on an ambitious songbook project wherein he performed an
9836_43	album featuring the music of a featured composer, often accompanied by the composer. These included
9836_44	collaborations with Burton Lane (two volumes: 1990, 1992), Jule Styne (1991), Jerry Herman (Michael
9836_45	Feinstein Sings the Jerry Herman Songbook, 1993), Hugh Martin (1995), Jimmy Webb (Only One Life:
9836_46	The Songs of Jimmy Webb, 2003) and Jay Livingston/Ray Evans (2002). He has also recorded three
9836_47	albums of standards with Maynard Ferguson: Forever (1993), Such Sweet Sorrow (1995), and Big City
9836_48	Rhythms (1999).
9836_49	In the late 1990s, Feinstein recorded two more albums of Gershwin music: Nice Work If You Can Get
9836_50	It: Songs by the Gershwins (1996) and Michael & George: Feinstein Sings Gershwin (1998).
9836_51	Feinstein's albums in the 21st century have included Romance on Film, Romance on Broadway (2000),
9836_52	Michael Feinstein with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (2001), Hopeless Romantics (2005,
9836_53	featuring George Shearing), and The Sinatra Project (2008).
9836_54	In 2000, the Library of Congress appointed Feinstein to its newly formed National Recording
9836_55	Preservation Board, an organization dedicated to safeguarding America's musical heritage.
9836_56	In 2008, The Great American Songbook Foundation, founded by Feinstein, located its headquarters in
9836_57	Carmel, Indiana. The Foundation's two-fold mission includes the preservation, research, and
9836_58	exhibition of the physical artifacts, both published and non-published, of the Great American
9836_59	Songbook and educating today's youth about the music's relevance to their lives. The Foundation
9836_60	houses an archive and reference library; plans exist for a free-standing museum. The organization
9836_61	also holds an annual Great American Songbook Vocal Academy and Competition that invites high school
9836_62	students from around the country to compete in regional competitions; Feinstein has been a judge
9836_63	and mentor for the summer intensive each year from its inception in 2009. Finalists gather at the
9836_64	Foundation's headquarters for a vocal "boot camp" and final competition. The winner receives
9836_65	scholarship money and the opportunity to perform with Michael at his cabaret in New York.
9836_66	In 2009 Feinstein became the artistic director of The Center for the Performing Arts. located in
9836_67	Carmel, Indiana. Construction of the $170-million, three-theater venue was completed in January,
9836_68	2011. The Center is home to an annual international arts festival, diverse live programming, and
9836_69	The Great American Songbook Foundation.
9836_70	In 2009, Feinstein teamed up with Cheyenne Jackson to create a nightclub act titled "The Power of
9836_71	Two". The show was hailed by The New York Times as "passionate", "impeccably harmonized" and
9836_72	"groundbreaking". Variety acclaimed it as "dazzlingly entertaining". Their act became one of the
9836_73	most critically acclaimed shows of 2009, and the duo created a studio album from the material, The
9836_74	Power of Two that included their cover of the Indigo Girls song of the same name.
9836_75	In addition to doing more than 150 live performances per year, Feinstein has appeared on a number
9836_76	of television series, documentaries, and talk shows.
9836_77	In 2010, PBS aired Michael Feinstein's American Songbook, a three-part television documentary that
9836_78	depicts the history of the American popular song up to 1960, as well as Feinstein's own life and
9836_79	career.
9836_80	As of June 2011, Feinstein has written the score for two new stage musicals, The Night They Saved
9836_81	Macy's Parade and The Gold Room.
9836_82	His Manhattan nightclub, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, presented the top talents of pop and jazz
9836_83	from 1999 to 2012, including Rosemary Clooney, Liza Minnelli, Glen Campbell, Barbara Cook, Diahann
9836_84	Carroll, Jane Krakowski, Lea Michele, Cyndi Lauper, Jason Mraz and Alan Cumming. The club was
9836_85	closed in December 2012 due to a year-long complete renovation of the Regency Hotel. Feinstein
9836_86	opened a new nightclub, Feinstein's at the Nikko in San Francisco's Nikko Hotel in May 2013,
9836_87	Feinstein's/54 Below at New York's Studio 54 in 2015 and also plans for a future nightclub in
9836_88	London.
9836_89	Since 2012, Feinstein has been the host of the weekly, one-hour radio program Song Travels with
9836_90	Michael Feinstein®, produced by South Carolina ETV Radio and distributed by NPR. On the program,
9836_91	Feinstein explores the legendary songs of 20th century America. The series surveys the passage of
9836_92	American popular song throughout the American landscape, evolving with each artist and performance.
9836_93	Podcast highlights of the show are also available under the title Song Travels Express.
9836_94	Feinstein was named Principal Pops Conductor for the Pasadena POPS in 2012 and made his conducting
9836_95	debut in June 2013 to good reviews. In 2016, Feinstein's contract with the Pasadena POPS was

9835_141

Launceston Examiner and North West Advocate publications

9835_142

See also Australian rules football in Tasmania

9835_143

Tasmanian Football League Defunct Australian rules football competitions in Tasmania

9835_144

1980 in Australian rules football

9836_0

Michael Jay Feinstein (born September 7, 1956) is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist.

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He is an interpreter of and an anthropologist and archivist for the repertoire known as the Great

9836_2

American Songbook. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical

9836_3

theatre songs. Feinstein is also a multi-platinum-selling, five-time Grammy-nominated recording

9836_4

artist. He currently serves as Artistic Director for The Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel,

9836_5

Indiana.

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Early life

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Feinstein was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of Florence Mazie (née Cohen), an amateur tap dancer,

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and Edward Feinstein, a sales executive for the Sara Lee Corporation and a former amateur singer.

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He is Jewish. At the age of five, he studied piano for a couple of months until his teacher became

9836_10

angered that he was not reading the sheet music she gave him, since he was more comfortable playing

9836_11

by ear. As his mother saw no problem with her son's method, she took him out of lessons and allowed

9836_12

him to enjoy music his own way.

9836_13

Career

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After graduating from high school, Feinstein worked in local piano bars for two years, moving to

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Los Angeles when he was 20. Through the widow of concert pianist-actor Oscar Levant, in 1977 he was

9836_16

introduced to Ira Gershwin, who hired him to catalogue his extensive collection of phonograph

9836_17

records. The assignment led to six years of researching, cataloguing and preserving the unpublished

9836_18

sheet music and rare recordings in Gershwin's home, thus building an archive of not just Ira's

9836_19

works but also those of his composer brother George Gershwin, who had died four decades earlier.

9836_20

During Feinstein's years with Gershwin, he also got to know Gershwin's next-door neighbor, singer

9836_21

Rosemary Clooney, with whom Feinstein formed a close friendship lasting until Clooney's death.

9836_22

Feinstein served as musical consultant for the 1983 Broadway show My One and Only, a musical

9836_23

pastiche of Gershwin tunes.

9836_24

By the mid-1980s, Feinstein was a nationally known cabaret singer-pianist famed for being a

9836_25

proponent of the Great American Songbook. In 1986, he recorded his first CD, Pure Gershwin (1987),

9836_26

a collection of music by George and Ira Gershwin. He followed this with Live at the Algonquin

9836_27

(1986); Remember: Michael Feinstein Sings Irving Berlin (1987); Isn't It Romantic (1988), a

9836_28

collection of standards and his first album backed by an orchestra; and Over There (1989),

9836_29

featuring the music of America and Europe during the First World War. Feinstein recorded his only

9836_30

children's album, Pure Imagination, in 1992. In the 1987 episode "But Not For Me" of the TV series

9836_31

thirtysomething he sang "But Not For Me", "Love Is Here to Stay" and Isn't It Romantic? as parts of

9836_32

dream sequences.

9836_33

By 1988, Feinstein was starring on Broadway in a series of in-concert shows: Michael Feinstein in

9836_34

Concert (April through June 1988), Michael Feinstein in Concert: "Isn't It Romantic" (October

9836_35

through November 1988), and Michael Feinstein in Concert: Piano and Voice (October 1990). He

9836_36

returned to Broadway in 2010, in a concert special duo with Dame Edna titled All About Me (March

9836_37

through April 2010).

9836_38

1991 saw Feinstein's persona as a cabaret performer parodied in the third season of Mystery Science

9836_39

Theater 3000, which covered the Kaiju movie Gamera vs. Guiron. At the episode's close, Feinstein,

9836_40

played by the show's head writer Michael J. Nelson, and sang a cabaret version of the Gamera theme

9836_41

song to the characters Dr. Clayton Forrester and TV's Frank.

9836_42

In the early 1990s, Feinstein embarked on an ambitious songbook project wherein he performed an

9836_43

album featuring the music of a featured composer, often accompanied by the composer. These included

9836_44

collaborations with Burton Lane (two volumes: 1990, 1992), Jule Styne (1991), Jerry Herman (Michael

9836_45

Feinstein Sings the Jerry Herman Songbook, 1993), Hugh Martin (1995), Jimmy Webb (Only One Life:

9836_46

The Songs of Jimmy Webb, 2003) and Jay Livingston/Ray Evans (2002). He has also recorded three

9836_47

albums of standards with Maynard Ferguson: Forever (1993), Such Sweet Sorrow (1995), and Big City

9836_48

Rhythms (1999).

9836_49

In the late 1990s, Feinstein recorded two more albums of Gershwin music: Nice Work If You Can Get

9836_50

It: Songs by the Gershwins (1996) and Michael & George: Feinstein Sings Gershwin (1998).

9836_51

Feinstein's albums in the 21st century have included Romance on Film, Romance on Broadway (2000),

9836_52

Michael Feinstein with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (2001), Hopeless Romantics (2005,

9836_53

featuring George Shearing), and The Sinatra Project (2008).

9836_54

In 2000, the Library of Congress appointed Feinstein to its newly formed National Recording

9836_55

Preservation Board, an organization dedicated to safeguarding America's musical heritage.

9836_56

In 2008, The Great American Songbook Foundation, founded by Feinstein, located its headquarters in

9836_57

Carmel, Indiana. The Foundation's two-fold mission includes the preservation, research, and

9836_58

exhibition of the physical artifacts, both published and non-published, of the Great American

9836_59

Songbook and educating today's youth about the music's relevance to their lives. The Foundation

9836_60

houses an archive and reference library; plans exist for a free-standing museum. The organization

9836_61

also holds an annual Great American Songbook Vocal Academy and Competition that invites high school

9836_62

students from around the country to compete in regional competitions; Feinstein has been a judge

9836_63

and mentor for the summer intensive each year from its inception in 2009. Finalists gather at the

9836_64

Foundation's headquarters for a vocal "boot camp" and final competition. The winner receives

9836_65

scholarship money and the opportunity to perform with Michael at his cabaret in New York.

9836_66

In 2009 Feinstein became the artistic director of The Center for the Performing Arts. located in

9836_67

Carmel, Indiana. Construction of the $170-million, three-theater venue was completed in January,

9836_68

2011. The Center is home to an annual international arts festival, diverse live programming, and

9836_69

The Great American Songbook Foundation.

9836_70

In 2009, Feinstein teamed up with Cheyenne Jackson to create a nightclub act titled "The Power of

9836_71

Two". The show was hailed by The New York Times as "passionate", "impeccably harmonized" and

9836_72

"groundbreaking". Variety acclaimed it as "dazzlingly entertaining". Their act became one of the

9836_73

most critically acclaimed shows of 2009, and the duo created a studio album from the material, The

9836_74

Power of Two that included their cover of the Indigo Girls song of the same name.

9836_75

In addition to doing more than 150 live performances per year, Feinstein has appeared on a number

9836_76

of television series, documentaries, and talk shows.

9836_77

In 2010, PBS aired Michael Feinstein's American Songbook, a three-part television documentary that

9836_78

depicts the history of the American popular song up to 1960, as well as Feinstein's own life and

9836_79

career.

9836_80

As of June 2011, Feinstein has written the score for two new stage musicals, The Night They Saved

9836_81

Macy's Parade and The Gold Room.

9836_82

His Manhattan nightclub, Feinstein's at Loews Regency, presented the top talents of pop and jazz

9836_83

from 1999 to 2012, including Rosemary Clooney, Liza Minnelli, Glen Campbell, Barbara Cook, Diahann

9836_84

Carroll, Jane Krakowski, Lea Michele, Cyndi Lauper, Jason Mraz and Alan Cumming. The club was

9836_85

closed in December 2012 due to a year-long complete renovation of the Regency Hotel. Feinstein

9836_86

opened a new nightclub, Feinstein's at the Nikko in San Francisco's Nikko Hotel in May 2013,

9836_87

Feinstein's/54 Below at New York's Studio 54 in 2015 and also plans for a future nightclub in

9836_88

London.

9836_89

Since 2012, Feinstein has been the host of the weekly, one-hour radio program Song Travels with

9836_90

Michael Feinstein®, produced by South Carolina ETV Radio and distributed by NPR. On the program,

9836_91

Feinstein explores the legendary songs of 20th century America. The series surveys the passage of

9836_92

American popular song throughout the American landscape, evolving with each artist and performance.

9836_93

Podcast highlights of the show are also available under the title Song Travels Express.

9836_94

Feinstein was named Principal Pops Conductor for the Pasadena POPS in 2012 and made his conducting

9836_95

debut in June 2013 to good reviews. In 2016, Feinstein's contract with the Pasadena POPS was