IRVING BERLIN’S 100TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION, 1988 ~Dia Reinhardt~

Taped at Carnegie Hall on Irving Berlin’s 100th birthday, May 11, 1988, and televised May 27, 1988. It’s very hard to pick out a favorite performance here - they are all so marvelous! If you need a break halfway through, close the video and go back later. When you return to YouTube and click on the video it will still be at the spot that you left off. Pretty amazing! If you would like to go straight to a particular performance, click on the number next to performer in list and it will take you there. Following in order of appearance: 00:00 Shirley MacLaine opens with - “I’m Happy“ 03:28 Opening title and performers are announced. 04:24 Walter Cronkite introduces Maureen McGovern & Jerry Orbach. 06:30 Maureen McGovern & 06:57 Jerry Orbach - medley 11:54 Michael Feinstein - “I Love A Piano“ 14:50 Nell Carter - “Alexander’s Ragtime Band“ 18:13 Isaac Stern - talks about Berlin’s piano, which is there on stage. 19