An Evening With Melissa Manchester

The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome GRAMMY Award-winning artist Melissa Manchester to the Museum’s intimate 200-seat Clive Davis Theater for an evening discussing her first-ever concerto, AWAKE!, her 50-year career, creative process, and more, with a special performance to follow.

ABOUT MELISSA MANCHESTER

In 1980, Melissa Manchester became the first recording artist in the history of the Academy Awards to have two nominated movie themes in a single year – “Through the Eyes of Love” from Ice Castles and “I’ll Never Say Goodbye” from The Promise– and to perform them both on the Oscar telecast. Manchester created the role of Maddy, the title character’s mother, on the NBC hit TV series Blossom. She was nominated for a GRAMMY for “Don’t Cry Out Loud” in 1980 and she won the GRAMMY Award for Best Female Vocalist in 1982 singing “You Should Hear How She Talks About You.” Manchester has celebrated her tenure as Artist In Residence at Citrus College with the release of her albums, You Gotta Love The Life, The Fellas– a tribute to the iconic male singers who set the platinum standard for pop music – and now, her golden anniversary offering, RE:VIEW. In 2021, Manchester was inducted into the Great American Songbook Foundation’s Hall of Fame and she is a recipient of the NARAS Board of Governors Award. 

Melissa Manchester will celebrate her remarkable 50-year career in show business with a dazzling, all-new show titled “50 Threads: An Artist’s Journey” at 54 Below in New York City. Described as a “musical memoir,” 50 Threads: An Artist’s Journey will run for three nights, beginning Thursday, June 12, and ending Saturday, June 14.

Having recently come off a sensational 17-month, 51-city tour in Funny Girl, Manchester felt the time was right to reflect on her musical journey with a fresh perspective. “I felt like my fans would want to relive my story in a new way,” she says. “I was chasing the difference between a concert and a one-woman show – you know, where it’s ‘And then I wrote this, and then I wrote this…’ I wanted to go deeper. One of my inspirations was Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. She opened with ‘Stormy Weather,’ and by the end of Act Two, when she reprised the song, the context had more gravitas. I wanted to explore what that kind of show could mean for me.”

Manchester’s autobiographical show will unfold in both monologues and songs, beginning with her first musical memories – hearing her father play bassoon, then falling under the spell of Ella Fitzgerald at age five – and covering key aspects of her development. “I studied songwriting with Paul Simon, and of course, Laura Nyro was my muse,” she says. “Soon I met Carole Bayer Sager and Marvin Hamlisch, both of whom I collaborated with. A lot of brilliant talents figure into my story.”

On July 19, fans will hear a different side of Melissa Manchester when her first-ever concerto for piano and orchestra titled “AWAKE!” will have its debut performance at the Corning Museum of Glass Auditorium in Corning, NY. This stunning, hauntingly beautiful and multi-dimensional piece will be performed by renowned pianist and composer Jeffrey Biegel and a 40-piece orchestra.

Manchester describes “AWAKE!” as “cinematic. It’s a hero’s story told in five parts. According to this piece, you pray for strength because something is coming. Through your strength and courage, you’re able to move forward and fight. But there’s menace that one has to overcome, and that’s through courage. What’s interesting is, you don’t know if you have courage until something happens. Sometimes you move forward claiming your courage, and that first step is still with a trembling foot.”

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