{"id":40453,"date":"2025-07-27T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/michael-feinstein-on-passing-his-love-of-great-songs-to-the-next-generation\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:06:09","slug":"michael-feinstein-on-passing-his-love-of-great-songs-to-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/michael-feinstein-on-passing-his-love-of-great-songs-to-the-next-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Feinstein on passing his love of great songs to the next generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>For most of his 50-year career, Michael Feinstein has shown his love for the great American songs by performing them. &#8220;There was something I connected to with the harmonic invention of the songs, the melodic ideas,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They express fundamental emotions in a very eloquent way that people can still relate to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He got his start early, as a little boy In Columbus, Ohio: &#8220;When I was five, my father said, &#8216;Let&#8217;s get a piano.&#8217; I sat down and started playing &#8216;Do-Re-Mi&#8217; from &#8216;The Sound of Music&#8217; with both hands. My mother came in from the kitchen and said, &#8216;Who taught you that?&#8217; And I said, &#8216;Nobody!&#8217; And she sent me to my room for lying!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was playing by ear at <em>five years old<\/em>. Of his childhood he said, &#8220;I always felt weird. I always felt different than everybody else. I was a lonely kid. I didn&#8217;t have many friends. The first classical record I bought was the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto, while my friends were all listening to Elton John and Carole King and Carly Simon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But his &#8220;unpopular&#8221; hobby soon made him a popular entertainer. For 12 years, he played in piano bars, five or six hours a night. &#8220;It was mainly gay bars,&#8221; he said, &#8220;&#8217;cause those are the places where I could play show tunes without anybody complaining about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t go to college, but he did get an amazing education. For example, &#8220;I learned that I had to program what I was doing as if I was programming a show, with an emotional arc. I learned what to say between the songs that I learned \u2013 patter and jokes and shtick and things that keep people engaged.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein moved to L.A. when he was 20, where he met one of his idols: 80-year-old Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin&#8217;s lyric-writing brother. Ira was so impressed by the young man&#8217;s encyclopedic knowledge of Gershwin material that he gave him a job. &#8220;I was only supposed to be there for a couple of weeks to catalog the phonograph records,&#8221; Feinstein said. &#8220;But I ended up spending six years as Ira&#8217;s musical companion, an amanuensis, which is a nice word for stooge! It was an incredible time, the most exciting time in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 1986, Feinstein got the invitation that changed his life: to perform in the Oak Room at New York&#8217;s Algonquin Hotel. &#8220;And from that, everything started popping,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>At 29 years old, Feinstein&#8217;s career was launched. Decades of glory days lay ahead \u2013 on stage, on PBS, on his 86 albums, and in his lifelong friendship with Liza Minnelli. (He&#8217;s collaborating with her on her new memoir.) But he didn&#8217;t just want to sing the Great American Songs; he also wanted to collect them.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s amassed a vast collection of memorabilia, recordings and scores, such as the first printing of &#8220;Rhapsody in Blue.&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-large\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/26\/efb8f85e-4ec7-4ff8-8119-7bc8c956e510\/thumbnail\/620x698\/c0fbb66ec2d82be5538a02c526067633\/michael-feinstein-collection.jpg#\" alt=\"michael-feinstein-collection.jpg \" height=\"698\" width=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/26\/efb8f85e-4ec7-4ff8-8119-7bc8c956e510\/thumbnail\/620x698\/c0fbb66ec2d82be5538a02c526067633\/michael-feinstein-collection.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/26\/efb8f85e-4ec7-4ff8-8119-7bc8c956e510\/thumbnail\/1240x1396\/ea52cb42eda7ee5dea64a28fcf891820\/michael-feinstein-collection.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">From Michael Feinstein&#8217;s collection of songs and songwriting memorabilia. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In recent years Feinstein has become increasingly dedicated to passing his love of the great songs to the next generation. He said, &#8220;I&#8217;m carrying the weight of the responsibility to present these songs in a way that hopefully will appeal to them. Every time these songs are introduced to a younger person, it&#8217;s like planting a seed, because it becomes part of them, and it goes on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In that spirit, Feinstein has established the Great American Songbook Foundation in Carmel, Indiana. There&#8217;s a museum of songwriter artifacts \u2026 a performing arts center \u2026 and a weeklong Songbook Academy, in which 40 students from around the U.S. are selected to intensively learn about interpreting this music. &#8220;And it&#8217;s right alongside Taylor Swift or Adele or whoever else they&#8217;re listening to,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>For Feinstein the Great American Songbook isn&#8217;t just music from before 1950: &#8220;I think that Carole King and Billy Joel and Neil Sedaka and Elton John, they&#8217;re all part of the American Songbook,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not just the 1910s and the &#8217;20s and the &#8217;30s; it is evolving.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Michael Feinstein still performs live all over the country, including a concert of Tony Bennett classics (which you can watch on the streaming service Carnegie Hall+ on August 3) \u2013 because maybe the best way of all to keep the classics alive is to keep singing them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>For more info:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>Story produced and edited by Emanuele Secci. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>See also: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"chartbeat\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation component--type-recirculation-collection\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/david-pogue\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">David  Pogue<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on &#8220;CBS Sunday Morning,&#8221; where he&#8217;s been a correspondent since 2002. 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