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Budgeteer News - Tony Bennett, who does songwriting duty and plays the guitar and sings; and Mat Milinkovich, the drummer. Here they are being "guys who play music." [SUBMITTED PHOTO] For more related content visit the Duluth News Tribune
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The inimitable Tony Bennett offers superb interpretations of classic popular songs written by the legendary team of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart. Bennett is in full command of his art bringing his trademark intelligence, zest, and emotional intimacy to the beautiful Rodgers and Hart songs.
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{$Tony Bennett} never was "plugged," so the concept here is redundant, but what the hell. It's been a while since a {$Tony Bennett} live album, and he's always terrific in concert. Certainly, he is here, singing 22 pop standards, including many of his hits and many other songs he's made his own. {$Elvis Costello} and {$k.d. lang} drop by, but they're feeding off {$Bennett}'s energy and star power, not the other way around. The album may be part of a successful marketing plan, but forget that and revel in the singing of a masterful song interpreter still, after 40 years, at the top of his game.
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In the course of the "crazy adventure" mentioned earlier, two things have always been particularly identifiable about him whenever the name ‘Tony Bennett’ has come up. The first, of course, is his signature song, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." The second is the quotation at the opening of this writing, "when Sinatra, in Life magazine in the ‘6Os, said that out of everybody I was his favorite entertainer."
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On December 4, 2005, Bennett was the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor. Later, a theatrical musical revue of his songs, called I Left My Heart: A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett was created and featured some of his best-known songs such as "I Left My Heart in San Francisco", "Because of You", and "Wonderful." The following year, Bennett was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.
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Certainly the Tony voters agreed when they named Company last season's best revival of a musical. Esparza lost the best-actor Tony to Curtains star David Hyde-Pierce but won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for his electrifying performance as a cool, disengaged charmer who finally embraces the exhilarating emotions of his climactic song, Being Alive.
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