Michael Feinstein Interview: Music Revivalist Strives to Preserve the Great American Songbook
Written by Melissa Parker, Posted in Interviews Musicians
Singer, pianist, composer, musical archivist Michael Jay Feinstein was a child prodigy who, at age 5 (about 1961), developed an interest in the piano and could play a song by ear having just heard it one time. At age 20 the Columbus, Ohio native was introduced to Broadway lyricist legend Ira Gershwin, who hired him to catalogue his extensive collection of phonograph records.
