BARBARA COOK: (Singing) There were bells on the hill, but I never heard them ringing. No, I never heard them at all till there was you. There were birds in the sky, but I never saw them winging.

Cook supported herself through the usual odd jobs while she sought to establish a singing career. In 1951 she made her Broadway debut in a musical satire called "Flahooley." It flopped.

I’m tempted to pretend that these words constitute a description of Barbara Cook, who turned 80 last October 25, but the lofty diction and classical-music terminology give the game away. The ...

Singing an eclectic program Friday night that veered from Duke Ellington to Irving Berlin to her beloved Stephen Sondheim, Cook christened a series she is curating for the Kennedy Center that will ...

Review: Barbara Cook, a Lioness Who Still Has Some Bite Left At 88, Ms. Cook holds forth at Feinstein’s/54 Below in both song and word. She channels the wisdom and humanity of the American songbook.

Legendary Broadway performer Barbara Cook will share herphilosophy about singing withsix area voice students, in a special master class Sunday at thePhilbrook Museum of Art, 2727S. Rockford Road.

Barbara Dixon, aka Broadway Barbara, is a has-been/never-been of the Great White Way. Always the chorine, never the star, her persona sugarcoats the prickly bitterness of Elaine Stritch with the ...

A canary who’s been singing for her birdseed here for quite some time here, time has burnished her voice but not diminished it. In Here’s to Life, she’ll underplay the theater material and ...