NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 1968: Singer/songwriter Laura Nyro poses for a portrait wearing a hat in November 1968 in New York City, New York. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) The show, “Soul ...

Laura Nyro’s solo work never quite hit home with the mainstream. Yet many of her songs hit big via covers by other artists. Interpretations of her idiosyncratic originals cut through the pop clutter ...

Wainwright will interpret Laura Nyro’s songs inspired by Manhattan—in all the sweeping emotion, stirring poetry, and pioneering genre-defiance the city brought out in the infinitely ...

“There’s so much depth and passion and bravery in her work. She was authentic to the core.” --Sara Bareilles “We could build the dream with love.” –from Laura Nyro’s “Save the Country” It’s one of pop ...

Scott Simon reminisces about the summer of 1968 through a song. Laura Nyro And The Summer Of 1968 SCOTT SIMON, HOST: We all have songs that bring memories. Fifty years ago, Laura Nyro wrote a song ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composer/producer Charlie Calello knew he was in the presence of something special when he began working on the landmark Eli and ...

Doug Peterson and Brad Wilber are back with a bite. By Caitlin Lovinger Marina Abramovic, Laurie Anderson and Meredith Monk are among the artists who will appear as part of National Sawdust+. By ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Cabaret & beyond. The band and the arrangements brought out the variety, verve, delicacy, and depth of the chosen pieces, never overwhelming the singing or the ...

In Monterey Pop, renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captured the 1967 pre-Woodstock rock festival oozing good vibrations and California sunshine, with celebrity emcees like the Rolling ...

Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 352 pp., $25.95 Laura Nyro (née Laura Nigro) was an anomaly as a singer-songwriter in the late Sixties/early Seventies, the dawn of feminism’s rise. She wrote ...

Sound of the City’s search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week. Today, all the remaining contenders in the Uptown division battle it out in the Round of 32. Keep ...