Mary Cleere Haran

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mary Cleere Haran (born May 13, 1952 in San Francisco , † February 5, 2011 in Deerfield Beach , Florida ) was an American singer and author .

Live and act

Mary Cleere Haran came from a family of Irish descent. Her father was a lecturer in theater and film at San Francisco City College. In her youth she won an Irish tap dance championship . In the 1970s she came to New York, where she appeared as a band singer in the revue The 1940s Radio Hour and in the off-Broadway plays Manhattan Music, Swingtime Canteen and Heebie Jeebies . On television, she had a role as a nightclub singer on 100 Center Street . She became better known from 1988 for her cabaret shows, in which she interpreted the songs of the Great American Songbook . In terms of style, her pop jazz was based on the big band vocalists of the 1940s, such as Ella Fitzgerald . She dedicated two of her stage shows to the songs of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart , Falling in Love With Love: The Rodgers and Hart Story .

As a writer, Haran researched and co-produced the documentary Doris Day : Sentimental Journey for PBS . She also worked on the documentaries for PBS Remembering Bing , Irving Berlin ’s America, When We Were Young: The Lives of Child Movie Stars and Satchmo .

In her music productions she worked with the pianists Bill Charlap , Don Rebic, Fred Hersch , Lee Musicians, Tedd Firth and especially with Richard Rodney Bennett . In 1992 she recorded her debut album There's a Small Hotel: Live at the Algonquin for Columbia Records .

Haran died in Florida in 2011 as a result of a bicycle accident.

Discography

  • 1994: This Heart of Mine: Classic Movie Songs of the Forties
  • 1995: This Funny World: Mary Cleere Haran Sings Lyrics by Hart
  • 1998: Pennies From Heaven: Movie Songs From the Depression Era
  • 1999: The Memory of All That: Gershwin Broadway and in Hollywood
  • 2002: Crazy Rhythm: Manhattan in the '20s

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Obituary in the New York Times (February 5, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Haran, Mary Cleere
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 2011
Place of death Deerfield Beach , Florida