What the world needs now, many Burt Bacharach fans can agree, is for that deep catalog of songs to not be consigned to history. Stepping up to present much of that material in a new light is a ...

There is, as the song says, always something there to remind Rob Shirakbari about Burt Bacharach. The musician, producer, composer and orchestrator spent more than 35 years as the music director ...

But for the sonorously starved among us, a bit of manna from a more euphonious heaven has arrived in the form of “What the World Needs Now: The Burt Bacharach Songbook Live in Concert,” a ...

And if Rundgren doesn’t come to mind as a first call to sing Burt Bacharach songs, he assures us it’s not really a great stretch... You’ve been on tribute tours for the Beatles, David Bowie ...

In 1964, singer-songwriter Todd Rundgren wasn’t quite 16 years old when a Burt Bacharach song first caught his attention. “The first thing I heard, or the first thing I reacted to, was ‘Walk ...

He was enticed back by the opportunity to celebrate Burt Bacharach, a songwriter whose work Rundgren considers consistently high-quality. Rundgren connects deeply with Bacharach's music ...