Pops salute musical Americana by Richard Dyer
Charles Strouse's ''Concerto Americana'' is a strange and rather wonderful beast, a composer's tribute to every kind of music he has heard, loved, and composed over the last 72 years.
Today is Wednesday, August 19, 2026 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Erika Christensen Tracie Thoms Kyra Sedgwick John Stamos Adam Arkin Peter Gallagher José Fernández William Mastrosimone Fred Dalton Thompson Vanya Franck Michael Dyne Mel Reed Joan Peers Barry Kelley Claude Dauphin Muriel Kirkland Ogden Nash Kenneth MacKenna John C. Wilson Olga Baklanova Elsie Ferguson Fred Stone William Burress Lawrence D'Orsay John Deacon Gerald McRaney Paul Ukena Frank Thompson Floyd Huddleston