Member Since: 7/8/2006
Band Website: emilybezar.com
Influences: formative years and beyond:
Joni Mitchell: Court & Spark, Hissing, Hejira
Rickie Lee Jones: Pirates
Streisand: Lazy Afternoon
Kurt Weill: Mahagonny, Broadway
Bill Evans: the Paris Concert
Canterbury progressive rock
R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
LA New Wave 1979-1983
Ella sings Rodgers and Hart
Chick Corea: Return to Forever and 3 Quartets
Weather Report
Ravel: Scheherazade and everything
Duparc: the surviving 16 spectacular songs he wrote
Genesis: the Lamb (IT = ecstasy)
Costello: Imperial Bedroom
Strayhorn, Gershwin, Porter, Berlin
Hugo Wolf: Mignon lieder
the Bee Gees: Saturday Night Fever
Debussy: Ariettes Oubliees, Jeux, La Mer, Pelleas
Bartok: Mikrokosmos drills at age 12, Music for SPC
Sondheim: Sunday in the Park with George
Messiaen: Illuminations of the Beyond
the Clash: London Calling
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Brahms Intermezzi and Capriccios
JSB Wohltemperierte Urtext
Adams: Harmonielehre
Pink Floyd: Meddle
Scriabin: Prometheus, piano wonders
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Wagner: Tristan and the Liebestod
Berg: Lulu
Puccini: those luscious chocolate arias
Handel: all 8.2 million operas and oratorios
Noah Bezar: opus 1
Record Label: DemiVox Records
Type of Label: Indie