The worlds of classical music and Broadway will combine on Wednesday when the Walt Disney Concert Hall host songstress Barbara Cook and the Los Angeles Philharmonic/
Tickets prices range from $50 to $119.
The Broadway madam has a career that spans over a half century. She was once described by the New York Times as "...a transcendent American voice sharing the wisdom she has gained in 80 well-lived years with a tenderness and honesty that could break your heart and mend it all at once."
John Helipern of The New York Observer was also full of praise for the now 85-year old singer.
"Barbara Cook defies time. She has it all - musicianship, of course, clarity, phrasing, a sure touch and feel for the mood of every lyric," he said. "She knows how to act a song, but she isn't theatrical. It isn't that she sings as well as someone half her age. Her secret is that she's completely and unpretentiously artless. Ms. Cook has found the highest peeks of utter naturalness. The air isn't rarefied, but very pure. This supreme 'artless art' goes beyond all we know. Some legendary dancers have had it, very few actors. It simply and purely is. It's why Ms. Cook is both timeless and miraculously ageless."
"Simply put, Cook's command over her material is staggering," Robert Nesti of The Boston Herald said.
Cook nabbed a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2011, to go along with her other awards, including a Tony, a Grammy, a Drama Desk and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award.
The multi-talented artist rose to fame in the 1950s after starring in a few original Broadway musicals like "Candide" and "The Music Man."
Barbara Cook- When You Wish Upon A Star
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