by Alix Cohen   Harvey Granat began a new season of his midday Songs and Stories at the 92nd Street Y with a salute to the incomparable Fred Astaire. Author/journalist Will Friedwald pinch-hits as Special Guest for ailing Rex Reed. By the time Irving Berlin had the opportunity to...

      By Peter Haas   Throughout New York’s supper-club world of the 1930s, 40, 50s and 60s, one pianist was recognized and beloved as an original, imaginative artist, whose variations on the popular standards of the day had no parallel. He played in supper clubs and over...