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The official release of "Manhattan Serenade" (the new CD by Celia Berk, featuring "Seconds"), will be released April 1, 2016. Available from Gramercy Nightingale Records on most music sites (Amazon, CDBaby, etc). Celia and I will perform "live" every Sunday in April at ...

Submitted for your approval: A few years ago, L.A.-based singer/songwriter Todd Murray approached me with an original lyric titled "And I'm Leaving Today", and asked me if I might be interested in setting it to music. He said that in his head, he was hearing something along the lines of Bu...

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Celia Berk, whose debut cd "You Can't Rush Spring" was released in 2014, has recorded a new version of "Seconds" (Burt Bacharach/Neil Simon), which will appear on her new cd of New York songs, as yet untitled, to be released in the spring. I did the arrangement and orchestration....

PS: Just remembered one other factoid: Re my comment that I have no idea how the song was done in Boston, that's not completely true: I approached orchestrator Jonathan Tunick when I first began working on the arrangement for Varese. What he gave me was the same routine in that songbook; three choru...

Alex Rybeck here. Wanted to comment on (and clarify) a few things! When Bruce Kimmel mentioned his concept to do a series of albums of songs cut from Broadway shows (the "Lost in Boston" albums that he produced for Varese Sarabande), it led to a discussion of PROMISES, PROMISES because Bru...

Hi,
Obviously, contacting Burt directly would be the best option.
But I may be able to help you track down some things.
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Alex Rybeck

Hi,
I have a cousin in the film music industry. He may be able to help you out
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Alex