Liza Minnelli: At Carnegie Hall

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Liza Minnelli: At Carnegie Hall
Live album by Liza Minnelli

Publication
(s)

1987

Label (s) Telarc

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Jazz, musical, traditional pop

Title (number)

24

running time

78m: 39s

occupation Liza Minnelli

production

Larry Marks

chronology
Lovely! Lively! Liza!
(1987) 		Liza Minnelli: At Carnegie Hall Highlights from the Carnegie Hall Concerts
(1988)

Liza Minnelli: At Carnegie Hall is a music album by Liza Minnelli . It is a compilation of recordings of her guest appearance at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1987.

background

Liza Minnelli returned to the public with a three-week series of concerts after a series of drug problems and performed at New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall from May 28 to June 18, 1987. With eleven sold-out concerts, this was the longest guest performance that an artist has ever held in this concert hall, and it made a comeback with worldwide acclaim , as judged by magazines such as Variety, Vanity Fair and Der Spiegel . There were also numerous celebrities among the guests, and the reviews were very positive for Minnelli.

The repertoire of her stage show mainly included well-known musical songs and jazz standards from the Great American Songbook . In the end, Minnelli sang several medleys of songs by the musical duo John Kander and Fred Ebb , who previously wrote her own songs (Maybe This Time, Liza with a 'Z') and stage programs (e.g. her Broadway show Liza, 1974) and had promoted her in her career since the 1960s. In contrast to her long-term club appearances, Minnelli was supported here by a 45-piece orchestra led by her loyal companion Bill LaVorgna .

Liza Minnelli: At Carnegie Hall is one of her best-known albums to this day and she made it into the Billboard 200 album charts for the first time in 13 years , at number 156. A year later, a compilation was released with Highlights from the Carnegie Hall Concerts . In 1990 a double CD of the album was released.

Track list

CD 1

  1. I Happen to Like New York ( Cole Porter ) - 3:48
  2. Here I'll Stay / Our Love Is Here to Stay ( Kurt Weill , Alan J. Lerner / George Gershwin , Ira Gershwin ) - 5:47
  3. Old Friends ( Stephen Sondheim ) - 2:51
  4. I Never Has Seen Snow ( Harold Arlen , Truman Capote ) - 4:13
  5. If You Hadn't But You Did ( Jule Styne , Comden, Green) - 4:03
  6. I Don't Want to Know ( Jerry Herman ) - 2:53
  7. Some People (Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne) - 2:55
  8. How Deep Is the Ocean? ( Irving Berlin ) - 2:35
  9. I Can See Clearly Now / I Can See It ( Johnny Nash / Tom Jones , Harvey Schmidt) - 2:39
  10. Married / You Better Sit Down, Kids ( John Kander , Fred Ebb / Sonny Bono ) - 3:40
  11. Ring Them Bells (John Kander, Fred Ebb) - 5:46

CD 2

  1. The Sweetest Sounds ( Richard Rodgers ) - 2:04
  2. Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye (Erdman, Fiorito, Kahn, King) - 1:25
  3. Buckle Down Winsocki (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) - 0:44
  4. Alexander's Ragtime Band (Irving Berlin) - 3:17
  5. Somewhere Out There ( James Horner , Barry Mann , Cynthia Weil ) - 4:22
  6. Lonely Feet ( Jerome Kern , Oscar Hammerstein ) - 2:29
  7. You Can Have Him / Time Heals Everything (Irving Berlin / Jerry Herman) - 4:12
  8. Ebb and Kander Medley (John Kander, Fredd Ebb) - 5:07
  9. Ebb and Kander Medley II (John Kander, Fred Ebb) - 1:36
  10. Maybe This Time (John Kander, Fred Ebb) - 2:56
  11. Ebb and Kander Medley III (John Kander, Fred Ebb) - 2:56
  12. Ebb and Kander Medley IV (John Kander, Fred Ebb) - 4:25
  13. Theme from New York, New York (John Kander, Fred Ebb) - 6:36

reception

Columnist Liz Smith raved about an “[unforgettable] night of pure fun” and “sheer excitement,” the New York Times ruled, Minnelli's “voice never sounded stronger or safer,” the New York Post said, “Liza is the greatest. […] [She has] a face that would be worth your last penny. [...] The audience that ate out of her hand had a small feast "and the Hollywood Reporter summed it up," It was the epitome of a concert performance; a singer at the height of her vocal power who sang some of the greatest entertainment songs ever written ”.

The renowned music critic William Ruhlmann emphasized in his review for Allmusic that Liza Minnelli owes her career above all to her presence as a live entertainer, despite her previous successes in film and on the musical stage. She has proven herself in many different concert shows, but her guest appearance at Carnegie Hall is her almost definitive and most outstanding stage program. Here she mixes old Broadway songs with her own hits and pays a tribute to her songwriting team, John Kander and Fred Ebb. Both the concert and the resulting album would sum up Minnelli's career in a brilliant way. Allmusic rated the album with four and a half stars out of five.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schechter: The Liza Minnelli Scrapbook. 2004, p. 27 and pp. 146–147 and pp. 179–182, cited from Smith, cited from Holden and cited from Barnes.