10 North Shore Towers Courier n April 2014 TONY BENNETT, ELVIS COSTELLO Photos by Mike Savitzky Performances by Elvis Costello & Tony Bennett. Edna Green Joseph Edelman BY VICTOR G. MIMONI What would it be like to have two major music talents chatting and singing in your living room? NST residents got a glimpse of what it would be like with a showing of “Spectacle: Elvis Costello with Tony Bennett” in the VIP room. The show, hosted by the British singer-songwriter who rode the first wave of British Punk-New Wave music to fame in the 1970’s featured such varied musical talents as Elton John, Smokey Robinson and Bill Clinton. On Tuesday, March 11 the audience got to see deep within Bennett, the pride of Astoria, not just as a master of the Great American Songbook, but a great American who marched alongside Dr. Martin Luther King during the Civil Rights movement. And though Bennett views the (at the time) latest fashion in music as “all screaming” with “too many drums” and sings Johnny Mercer and Jerome Kern’s “I’m old fashioned” to prove it, he seems quite at home musically with the much younger Costello who covers a 1951Tony Bennett cover of Hank Williams’ hit “Cold, Cold Heart.” Just to complete the “in our living room” feel of the show, Bennett grabs Costello’s reallife wife, pianist/singer Diana Krall, out of the audience to accompany him on piano and vocals on Harold Arlen’s “I’ve Got the World on a String.” All in all, the evening was spectacularly intimate. Marilyn Fern, Bobbi Rose Nadine Bernard Berry Irene Greenwald, Eva Ebin
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