Music Through the Decades with David Polansky at the Newbury Town Library

 

Join us at at the Newbury Town Library to listen for some live music! Recently The Norman Rockwell Museum commissioned David to develop “Music Through The Decades”, a fun filled hour in which the audience learns how the last hundred-plus years of American and world history have influenced the great American Popular Song Book. Using keyboard, trumpet, and vocals David brings alive the music of George M. Cohan, Irving Berlin, Fats Waller, George Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael, and a host of others. These are songs inspired by the gay 90's, the advent of the automobile, World War I, the Roaring 20's, The Great Depression, WWII, Big Band, Atomic Age, Swing Eras, Broadway and the Wild West (Over There, Sweet Georgia Brown, Brother Can You Spare a Dime, Rosie the Riveter and much more).

The show very often ends with a standing ovation. David engages the audience, taking questions, performing requests, and telling anecdotes about famous musicians as well as some about his own life as a musician. David's Louis Armstrong impersonation is legendary and never fails to thrill everyone. A career musician, David has played with Sandler and Young, Phyllis Diller, Henny Youngman, Ray Bolger, Arthur Fiedler, The Platters, The Coasters....The list goes on and on. This program is a real winner.

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