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Back To Bacharach And Beyond By Christine And Elliot Spero at Ridgewood Public Library
Courtesy of Elliot Spero | Posted on January 7, 2020
When
Sun, January 19, 2020
2:00 pm
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Musicians
Elliot Spero
saxophone, tenorChristine Spero
pianoAbout
Free Concert 2:00-3:30 PM
Back to Bacharach and Beyond by Christine and Elliot Spero is a show that will lovingly take you on a journey through Burt Bacharach’s greatest songs with some surprises. Bacharach, who is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music, has composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, mostly in collaboration with lyricist Hal David.
A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists. He has written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked Bacharach and David at number 32 for their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time. ...