O'Malley, Sheila. "A Boy Called Po Movie Review & Film Summary (2017) | Roger Ebert". www.rogerebert.com . Retrieved September 11, 2017. In 1956, at the age of 28, Bacharach's productivity increased when composer Peter Matz recommended him to Marlene Dietrich, who needed an arranger and conductor for her nightclub shows. [31] He then became a part-time music director for Dietrich, the actress and singer who had been an international screen star in the 1930s. [32] They toured worldwide off and on until the early 1960s. When they were not touring, he wrote songs. [33] As a result of his collaboration with Dietrich, he gained his first major recognition as a conductor and arranger. [34] [35] Farina, William (2013). The German Cabaret Legacy in American Popular Music. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-6863-8.

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a b c d e f g h i Blair, Elizabeth (February 9, 2023). "Burt Bacharach, visionary pop composer, has died at 94". NPR . Retrieved February 14, 2023.a b c "Burt Bacharach interview: what was it all about?". The Telegraph. June 2013 . Retrieved February 14, 2023.

Singer Presents Burt Bacharach: Nureyev segment [March 14, 1971]", Chicago Film Archives , retrieved February 14, 2023 Billington, Michael (July 16, 2015). "What's It All About? review – a clever, passionate reappraisal of Burt Bacharach". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved February 14, 2023. Bacharach studied music (Associate of Music, 1948) [21] at McGill University in Montreal, under Helmut Blume, at the Mannes School of Music in New York City, and at the Music Academy of the West in Montecito, California. During this period he studied a range of music, including jazz, whose sophisticated harmony is a distinctive feature of many of his compositions. His composition teachers included Darius Milhaud, [18] Henry Cowell, [22] and Bohuslav Martinů. Bacharach cited Milhaud, under whose guidance he wrote a "Sonatina for Violin, Oboe and Piano", [20] as his greatest influence. [18] [20] Career [ edit ] 1950s [ edit ] Promises, Promises [Original Broadway Cast] Review by Jenna Woolford". allmusic.com . Retrieved February 10, 2023. a b Browne, David (September 30, 1998). "Painted from Memory". EW.com . Retrieved February 14, 2023.Burt Bacharach, legendary composer of pop songs, dies at 94". KCAL. February 9, 2023 . Retrieved February 9, 2023. That's just vanity and saying 'yeah, I'll write with someone else'. Then the other question is what could we have written if we hadn't split up. I don't know what we would have written. Had we 'run out' a little bit? Had we been depleted and robbed of creativity? [69]

a b Lohof, Bruce. American Commonplace: Essays on the Popular Culture of the United States, Popular Press (1982). Epstein, Dan (February 10, 2023). "The great Burt Bacharach album that nobody's talking about". The Forward . Retrieved February 16, 2023. From 1975 to 1980, Bacharach wrote songs with a number of lyricists including Paul Anka, James J. Kavanaugh, Norman Gimbel, Libby Titus, Anthony Newley, and playwright Neil Simon. His solo albums from the late 1970s, including Futures and Woman, failed to yield hits. In 2018, Bacharach released "Live to See Another Day", co-written with Rudy Pérez and featuring the Miami Symphony Orchestra; the song was dedicated to survivors of gun violence in schools, as the proceeds from the release went to the charity Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit organization founded and led by several family members whose children had been killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. [95] [96] In July 2020, Bacharach collaborated with songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Tashian on the EP Blue Umbrella, Bacharach's first new material in 15 years. [97] It earned Bacharach and Tashian a Grammy Award nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. [98]The enormity of Bacharach’s talent and contributions cannot be overstated. Born in Kansas City, Mo, and educated at music at conservatories in Montreal, New York and California, he was a master composer and arranger, not to mention a pretty fair pianist. He could lay out a melody like other people turn on a sink. And when paired with great lyricists — especially Hal David and, later, Carole Bayer Sager and Elvis Costello — Bacharach created timeless works that were strong enough to sustain multiple “definitive” versions. a b Musiker, Naomi, and Musiker, Reuben. Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music, Routledge (1998), ebook. One can not compose a list of Burt Bacharach Songs without first mentioning all of his great songwriting partners. Burt Bacharach’s most important songwriting partner and the author of all those great lyrics that filled the Burt Bacharach songs of the 60s was the great Hal David. The brilliant lyricist who charmed our hearts first met Burt Bacharach at the legendary New York Brill Building. It was a place where songwriters like Carole King, Neil Diamond, Laura Nyro, and so many others composed the hits of our lifetimes. Burt Bacharach also had other songwriting partners through the years including Bob Hilliard, Bruce Roberts, Carole Bayer Sager, and Elvis Costello.