Annie Ross

As part of the vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Annie Ross was one of the early practitioners of a singing style known as “vocalese,” which involves the setting of original lyrics to an instrumental jazz solo.

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Flory Jagoda

Flory Jagoda escaped the destruction of Sarajevo’s Jewish community and came to the United States after World War II and became an important carrier of a unique musical heritage and also as a composer and arranger of new Sephardic songs.

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Barbara Cook

American actress and singer who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the last.

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