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Barbra Streisand is currently touring across 1 country and has 1 upcoming concert.

The final concert of the tour will be at O2 City Hall Newcastle in Newcastle Upon Tyne.

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What can I say, she was amazing as always. This is the 4th time I've seen her since 2000. All of the other concerts had a much bigger band/orchestra. This time it was a large band. This was a mini tour so she didn't have the large orchestra and a small stage. The music was still on point.

In my opinion, she is the best when it comes to interacting with the audience. People shout stuff to her and she does her best to answer them. I love how she tells you stories about the songs she sings.

If you have never seen her live, she does not shy away from politics. She is open about being a Democrat and gets in some good jokes about Trump. So if you are a Trump supporter and can't handle the digs, you might want to tune those parts out.

And on to the most important part of the show, the music. In the first act, she does some songs that my be unfamiliar to many. She seemed to be trying to get her point across about what is going on in the world today by doing songs like The Way We Were, Everything, Being At War With Each Other, You Don't Bring Me FLowers. She did a medley of Woman In Love/No More Tears. Then she did Evergreen, Being Alive, and closed the first act with Papa Can You Hear Me? During intermission, she had a mentalist or mind reader who performed. He was really good. The second act had a mix of the new album that is coming out and some of her hits. She did songs like Pure Imagination, Children Will Listen, Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me), How Lucky Can You Get, Losing My Mind, Isn't This Better, Don't Rain On My Parade, People, and Happy Days Are Here Again, With One More Look.

Her voice has changed over they years. In my opinion is like a fine wine, it gets better with age. It is deeper and raspy but it is still wonderful. She puts on a great and entertaining show. If you've never seen her live and it's on your bucket list, GO!! If you're like me and you go every time she comes to town, make sure you GO again!! I don't think there will ever be another Barbra. At least not in this lifetime. If you missed out this time, don't miss out on the next time if you have the chance.

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Barbra Streisand. Good songs.Very nicely done.Visual effects were awesome.I did not appreciate mixing entertainment and politics. Parking and Traffic control job well done. It took us one hour to get out the Parking Lot after JRNY concert in Tinley Park,IL.

Dear Barbara,

Your performance last night was AMAZING! I loved everything about the show, minus the part when it had to end. You have been a favorite artist of mine for many, many years and it was an honor to see you perform in your home town of Brooklyn. I wish I had the money to buy tickets for both nights. You are a true class act and will forever be a part of my life. Thank you for all the memories you've brought to my life over the years.

Tina DiSano

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Barbra Streisand comes home to perform at Barclays Center in Brooklyn

BROOKLYN, NY – Barbra Streisand is coming home.

The Brooklyn-born and raised, world-acclaimed superstar will perform a concert on Thursday,

October 11th, in Brooklyn at Barclays Center, the new 19,000-seat sports and entertainment venue.

The most accomplished female recording artist ever, with 10 Grammys—including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement  and Grammy Legend Awards—51 gold albums, 30 platinum albums, and 13 multi-platinum albums, Streisand will be making a triumphant return to her native borough. Raised in the Flatbush neighborhood and a graduate of Erasmus Hall High School, Streisand will perform publicly for the first time in Brooklyn. According to the RIAA, Barbra Streisand is the #1 best selling female recording artist in history and the only woman to make the Top 10 all time best selling artists list.

Streisand stated, “Brooklyn to me means the Loew’s Kings, Erasmus, the Yeshiva I went to, the Dodgers, Prospect Park, great Chinese food. I’m so glad I came from Brooklyn—it’s down to earth. I guess you CAN come home again.”

“When I first thought about building an arena in Brooklyn, I always envisioned Barbra Streisand coming home to take center stage in her native borough,” said Barclays Center majority owner and developer Bruce Ratner. “It’s humbling and almost surreal to welcome one of the greatest entertainers of all-time to Barclays Center. Barbra is Brooklyn and there’s nowhere more fitting for her to perform. This will be a night to remember.”

“I’m thrilled that all of America will be celebrating one of Brooklyn’s greatest contributions to the world of music, film, television and Broadway this fall when Barbra Streisand comes home to the exciting new Barclays Center,” said Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. “They just don’t get any bigger than this daughter of Brooklyn and proud graduate of Erasmus Hall High School, and although she has entertained millions upon millions across the globe for the better part of 50 years, Ms. Streisand will always find a home here in Brooklyn. So, ‘no more tears,’ music fans—Brooklyn’s very own ‘funny girl,’ Barbra Streisand, will create new ‘memories’ as the ‘main event’ this October at Barclays Center!”

“Barbra Streisand in Brooklyn will be a huge moment and a defining experience for Barclays Center,” said Barclays Center CEO Brett Yormark. “We are truly honored to bring Barbra full circle, to the borough where it all started for her, just down Flatbush Avenue from her old neighborhood. We are continuing our goal to bring the best of everything to Barclays Center. Brooklyn, after all, deserves nothing less.”

Tickets for the Streisand concert will go on sale on Monday, May 21 at 10 a.m. Tickets will be available through Ticketmaster by visiting www.barclayscenter.com , www.ticketmaster.com , www.barbrastreisand.com , or by calling 800-745-3000.  Brooklyn Nets All Access ticket holders will have the opportunity to purchase tickets for the concert before the general public. For more information please visit www.barclayscenter.com .

About Barbra Streisand An artist of unparalleled accomplishments in multiple entertainment fields, Streisand has made her mark as an award winning actress of stage and screen, recording artist, concert performer, film director, producer, screenwriter, songwriter, philanthropist, designer, photographer, author and activist.

Barbra Streisand is the only artist ever to receive an Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, National Medal of Arts and Peabody Awards as well as France’s Legion d’Honneur and the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.  She is, in fact, the recipient of 2 Oscars, 5 Emmys, 10 Grammys, a Tony and 12 Golden Globes including the Cecil B. DeMille Award. She is also the first female film director to receive the Kennedy Center Honors. The three films she directed received 14 Oscar nominations.

The Streisand Foundation has given millions of dollars in more than 2100 grants to over 700 non-profit organizations including her substantial underwriting of The Cedars-Sinai Barbra Streisand Women’s Cardiovascular Research and Education Program which addresses the leading cause of death among women in the United States, as well as men. Barbra Streisand was recently honored by the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors for her generous support and dedication to the Cedars-Sinai Women’s Heart Center.

GREAT PERFORMANCES: Barbra Streisand: Back To Brooklyn

Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 and 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Sunday, March 31 at 6 p.m. on KPBS 2

“I love people from Brooklyn. Because they’re real. Down to earth. They tell it like it is.” So Barbra Streisand informs an adoring audience at the opening of her heralded hometown return at the brand new 19,000-seat, billion-dollar Barclays Center . "Barbra Streisand: Back to Brooklyn" airs on GREAT PERFORMANCES as part of the PBS Arts Fall Festival.

Mixing her trademark classics with rarer older material and selections from her more recent albums, Streisand, in her first concert appearance in six years, and backed by a 60-piece orchestra led by William Ross , keeps the capacity house enthralled. In all, she sings 27 songs, nine of which she never before performed live, and three which she sings in different ways; that is, either with different arrangements or with newly composed lyrics.

Streisand masterfully holds the stage for two hours, joined by special guests Il Volo , trumpeter Chris Botti , and (making it a true family affair) son Jason Gould , who thrilled the audience singing solo and in a duet with his mother.

Elegantly gowned by Donna Karan , she plays to those in front, to the sides, and behind her. Some had flown halfway around the world to see this iconic and beloved performer in person. Utterly at ease, Streisand chats with the audience as casually as if they were in her living room.

The songs are framed by multi-faceted video montages of Streisand’s childhood and early career. Her alma mater Erasmus High School, the Loews Kings Theatre , the Dodgers , her yeshiva, Brighton Beach and Brooklyn Heights all figure in her reminiscences. The superstar left her fourth-floor apartment at 3102 Newkirk Avenue (one of three residences at which she lived as a child) when she was 16 to pursue her acting career, and the rest is history. She joked that “the last time…(she) sang in Brooklyn was on a stoop on Pulaski Street.”

Specially adapted lyrics to “As If We Never Said Goodbye” and “You’re the Top” pay humorous homage to the borough. Among the vocal highlights is a medley of Jule Styne show tunes. Styne wrote the music to Streisand’s Broadway and Hollywood megahit “Funny Girl.” In that medley, Streisand also gives us a tantalizing glimpse of what her Mama Rose might sound like if she proceeds with her hoped-for remake of Styne and Sondheim’s “Gypsy.”

Throughout the concert, she sings selections from every stage of her career, including “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” (which she sang during her memorable appearance on “The Judy Garland Show” in 1963); “Enough is Enough (No More Tears)” (her disco hit with the late Donna Summer ); “My Funny Valentine” (from her 1967 album “Simply Streisand” ); and “The Way We Were” (in loving tribute to Marvin Hamlisch who unexpectedly passed away in August 2012).

And then there are songs from her more recent albums like “Nice ‘N’ Easy,” “That Face,” “Some Other Time,” and “Here’s to Life.” The concert also includes “Make Our Garden Grow” from Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide,” a song she recorded for an unreleased Broadway album in 1988. Here, she’s backed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus .

Her two nights in Brooklyn were followed by a national tour which included Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Chicago, Vancouver, Las Vegas, San Jose, and Los Angeles, continuing on to Europe in 2013, with stops in London, Amsterdam, Cologne, Berlin, and Tel Aviv, where she was greeted by more devoted crowds and critical accolades.

Critics all over the world were unanimous in praise of Streisand:

Stephen Holden in The New York Times observed, “Like few singers of any age, she has the gift of conveying a primal human longing in a beautiful sound.”

Charles McNulty of The Los Angeles Times wrote that her performance provided “a chance to spend quality time with a legend and enjoy the sights and sounds of her alternate reality.”

Bernard Perusse of The Montreal Gazette observed, “Streisand has always done it with elegance and a peerless voice. She is truly, it seems, the last of her kind.”

Watch On Your Schedule: GREAT PERFORMANCES "Barbra Streisand: Back To Brooklyn" is available to stream with KPBS Passport , a member benefit that unlocks exclusive shows and extra content on the PBS App .

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A thoroughly researched, comprehensive list of Barbra Streisand's live performances — public, private, benefit concerts and club dates. 

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Live in the 1960s ...

Summer Stock

1957-1958 (Malden Bridge Playhouse, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clinton Playhouse)  

January 1959

Garret Theatre, New York

The Insect Comedy

Jan Hus Playhouse, New York

June 6 - July 1960

The Boy Friend

August 16 - 30, 1960

Cecilwood Theatre Playhouse

The Bon Soir

September 9 - November 20, 1960

The Crystal Palace

April 17 - May 8, 1961

Town n Country

July 3 - 16, 1961

Winnipeg, Canada

The Caucus Club

July 17 - August 12, 1961

Another Evening with Harry Stoones

October 21, 1961

Grammercy Arts Theater, New York

The Blue Angel

November 16 - December 13, 1961

I Can Get It For You Wholesale

March 22 - December 8, 1962

Shubert & Broadway Theatres, New York

Dutch Treat Club

April 10, 1962

May Day Luncheon — Nat. Council of Jewish Women

May 7, 1962

Knoll Country Club, Boonton

Barbra & Elliott Gould sang “a varied repertoire” including songs from “I Can Get It For You Wholeale,” accompanied by Peter Howard, musical arranger.

July 16 - August 17, 1962

January 8 - January 28, 1963

“Lights On—Carnegie” Fight for Sight Benefit

January 1963

Revere Frolic

February 3 - 9, 1963

Massachusetts

The Chateau

February 11 - 15, 1963

American Cancer Society Benefit

March 17, 1963

Eden Roc Hotel, Cafe Pompeii

March 19 - 23, 1963

March 25 - 26, 1963

The hungry i

March 27 - April 20, 1963

San Francisco

Basin Street East

May 13 - June 1, 1963

“An Evening with Jule Styne”

May 14, 1963

Press Correspondents Dinner

May 24, 1963

Washington, D.C.

Mister Kelly's

June 11-30, 1963

Riviera Hotel

July 2 - August 4, 1963

Lido Club Hotel

August 9, 1963

Concord Hotel

August 10, 1963

The Cocoanut Grove

August 21 - September 8, 1963

Los Angeles

September 9 - 22, 1963

An Evening Honoring John F. Shelley for Mayor

September 28, 1963

Stereo at the Bowl

October 5, 1963

The Harmonie Club

November 1963

Arie Crown Theatre—McCormick Place

November 29 - 30, 1963

Clowes Memorial Hall

December 1, 1963

San Jose Civic Auditorium

December 4, 1963

Sacramento Memorial Auditorium

December 5, 1963

Masonic Temple

December 6, 1963

Shrine Auditorium

December 7, 1963

March 26, 1964 — December 25, 1965

Winter Garden Theatre, New York

Forest Hills Music Festival

July 12, 1964

Young Citizens Convention Rally

August 27, 1964

Atlantic City

Lyndon B. Johnson Inauguration

January 18, 1965

Broadway Answers Selma

April 4, 1965

Sunday Evening with SNCC

April 25, 1965

August 8, 1965

Funny Girl (London)

April 13, 1966 — July 16, 1966

“A Very Informal History of the American Musical Theater: 1926—1966”

June 12, 1966

Columbia Records Convention

July 21, 1966

“An Evening with Barbra Streisand” Concert Tour

July - August 1966

Newport, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago

Concert in Central Park

June 17, 1967

“An Evening with Barbra Streisand” Hollywood Bowl

July 9, 1967

Broadway for Peace

Eugene McCarthy Benefit

June 26, 1968

Belafonte, Streisand, Cosby, Alpert at the Hollywood Bowl

July 17, 1968

Israeli Bond Luncheon

October 17, 1968

The Friars Honor Barbra Streisand

May 16, 1969

The International Hotel

July 2 - 30, 1969

Who's That With John Lindsay?

October 11, 1969

Live in the 1970s ...

Broadway for Bella

November 1, 1970

November 27 - December 10, 1970

Hilton Hotel

December 13, 1970 - January 2, 1971

NARM Convention

March 1, 1970

Motion Picture & Television Relief Fund 50th

June 13, 1971

December 24, 1971 - January 14, 1972

Daniel Ellsberg ACLU Fundraiser

April 7, 1972

Four For McGovern (Live at the Forum)

April 15, 1972

August 3, 1974

"Funny Lady" Live Premiere

March 9, 1975

Sun Devil Stadium (“A Star is Born”)

March 20, 1976

The Stars Salute Israel at 30

May 7, 1978

Live in the 1980s ...

ACLU Bergman Tribute

June 1, 1980

September 6, 1986

Apollo Theatre

September 8, 1988

Voices for Change

October 16, 1988

Live in the 1990s ...

Women For A Change

July 1, 1992

Voices For Change

September 16, 1992

APLA Commitment To Life VI

November 18, 1992

52nd Presidential Inaugural Gala

January 19, 1993

Barbra Streisand: The Concert

December 31, 1993 - January 1, 1994

The Concert Tour

April - June 1994

Los Angeles National Presidential Gala

September 12, 1996

Live in the 2000s ...

December 31, 1999 - January 1, 2000

Timeless Australian Tour

March 9 - 10, 2000 (Sydney)

March 15 & 17, 2000 (Melbourne)

Timeless “Final Concerts”

September 20 - 21, 2000

September 27 - 28, 2000

The Nomination Concert

August 17, 2000

National Democratic Gala

September 29, 2002

An Evening with John Kerry and Friends

June 24, 2004

Andre Agassi's “Grand Slam for Children”

October 1, 2005

2006 North American Tour

October - November 2006

2007 European Tour

June - July 2007

Planet Hollywood Opening

November 17, 2007

“An Event Benefiting The Obama Victory Fund”

September 16, 2008

Village Vanguard

September 26, 2009

Live in the 2010s ...

2011 MusiCares Person of the Year

February 11, 2011

FIDF Western Region Gala

December 8, 2011

Follow Your Heart

June 14, 2012

A Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch

September 18, 2012

Back to Brooklyn North American Tour

October - November 2012

Europe & Israel Concert Tour

Tomorrow: The Israeli Presidential Conference

June 18, 2013

Baron Investment Conference

November 8, 2013

Barbra: The Music, The Memories, The Magic Concert Tour

August, Nov—Dec, 2016

LGBT for Hillary Clinton Gala Dinner

September 9, 2016

Bill Clinton Birthday & Foundation Fundraiser

September 16, 2016

British Summertime: Hyde Park

July 7, 2019

Madison Square Garden

August 3, 2019

Chicago 2019

August 6, 2019

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The musical powerhouse recently released her memoir, 'My Name Is Barbra'

Tom Gliatto reviews the latest TV and movie releases for PEOPLE Magazine. He also writes many of the magazine's celebrity tributes. 

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To Barbra Streisand ’s long list of credits as singer, actress, director, songwriter, producer, political activist and contributor to the economic lexicon (see: “the Streisand effect”) , she has now added "memoirist," thanks to her 970-page autobiography, My Name Is Barbra .

But the music—the singing—has arguably been the anchor of her career, and perhaps her greatest gift to the world. The classical pianist Glenn Gould wrote that “the Streisand voice is one of the natural wonders of the age, an instrument of infinite diversity and timbral resource.” It can be supple, thundering, mellow, sinuous, brassy, rounded, gorgeous.  

Streisand has a number of signature classics (“People,” “Don’t Rain on My Parade,” “The Way We Were,” “Guilty”), but her taste and talent have been adventurous and, for the most part, deeply edifying. She's one of the rare artists who makes you want to both stand in awe and melt into a puddle. This, you can imagine, is hard to do at the same time.

Here’s a playlist that will let you sample the many moods, and modes, of Streisand. 

"Miss Marmelstein" (1962)

Streisand was only 19 when she appeared on Broadway in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale — and stopped the show with this number, the comic romantic lament of an unmarried secretary. The humor, the surprising way of shaping  a lyric and the soaring, swooping vocal pyrotechnics were already in place. She followed this with the stage production of Funny Girl, and after that she was off to Hollywood. What was she going to do, wait around to play Miss Hannigan in Annie? Although she did record a bossa-nova-tinged version of that show’s big hit, “Tomorrow.”

"Napoleon" (1962)

Early in her career, Streisand often performed novelty numbers (“Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf”) and largely forgotten Broadway songs. “Napoleon,” which she performed in a live club set that ultimately became the 2022 album Live at the Bon Soir, was introduced by Lena Horne in a 1950s show called Jamaica. A tongue-in-cheek salute to obscurity  (“Napoleon’s a pastry/ Bismarck is a herring”), it's performed by Streisand with an amused but emphatic swagger. She swings through the lyrics with the skill of a trapeze artist.

 "Mother" (1971)

Six years after Bob Dylan went electric at Newport, Streisand went pop-rock with two albums in one year, Stony End and Barbra Joan Streisand. (Why hasn’t an enterprising music journalist tried to make sense of the connection between these seismic events?) Both albums show Streisand’s strong-willed determination to move beyond show tunes and the American Songbook — proving to the world,  she writes, that “I could change with the times.”  Barbra Joan includes her oddly memorable cover of “Mother,” John Lennon ’s cathartic wail about the traumas of his childhood. Streisand isn’t one to wail: She forges through this psychodrama with sheer lung power and piercing high notes.  Lennon moves you to pity, Streisand to submission.  

By the way, Streisand writes in My Name Is Barbra that Dylan once sent her a note telling her she was his favorite star, and that he wrote "Lay, Lady, Lay" with her in mind. One can dream.

"Simple Man" (1974)

One of Streisand’s most understated performances — many have complained over the years that there aren’t enough of them — this Gram Nash cover can be found on the album Butterfly, which comes from the era of Streisand's relationship with one-time hairstylist Jon Peters. (He told her she reminded him of a butterfly. Hence the title.) Peters, who was played by Bradley Cooper in a funny extended cameo in Licorice Pizza, is credited as producer, although Streisand writes that he was out of his depth in a recording studio and she ended up handling key parts of the job.  The album remains a very uneven mix of tracks — David Bowie described her version of “Life on Mars?” as "atrocious" — but her self-harmonizing on “Simple Man” has a crystalline loveliness. It floats like a… you know.

"Lazy Afternoon" (1975)

One of Streisand’s most seductive (and overlooked) performances, this is another Broadway rarity, first sung by Kaye Ballard in The Golden Apple . The suggestion to record it, Streisand writes, came from "director Francis Coppola... over a sukiyaki dinner.”  So now you know. It’s an indolent, playful, lulling dream of sexual pleasure, invoking a pastoral landscape that breathes and sighs  with nature’s erotic impulses. The album also includes one of Streisand's most powerful ballads, “ Letters That Cross in the Mail” — the performance is practically saturated with emotion. Although it might not make sense to anyone raised on email, texting and ghosting. Just Google "Postal Service."

"Auf dem Wasser zu singen" (1976)

Perhaps you weren’t aware that Streisand released an album of arias, Classical Barbra? She even ventured to sing — in German! — this delicate Schubert song about a boat drifting along the water as the light fades. (It’s a metaphor for the passing of life, no matter whether it’s performed by Renee Fleming or, in a remote future, Grimes.)  Streisand sings it very appealingly, with a light rhythmic bounce. Pianist Gould, despite his intoxication with her singing, wasn’t  completely over the moon about the album — he suggested she try a Bach cantata next time. 

"Woman in Love" (1980)

Improbable as it might seem, or maybe it's not improbable at all, one of Streisand's very best albums is Guilty, a pop-disco collaboration with Barry Gibb. You won't necessarily want to dance to it, but the music throughout has a definite groove — a shimmering energy — and Streisand's voice is extraordinarily supple. On the lush, brooding "Woman in Love," she rides on waves of melody, soaring and cresting, soaring and cresting. It's flawless, fabulous. And yet, Streisand writes, she resisted the song because she couldn't make sense of Gibb's rather vague lyrics. In the end, though, “I thought, F--- it. Forget the words. Just do it.”

"No Wonder" from Yentl (1983)

Streisand devotes many pages of her memoir to the making of Yentl, and you can’t really blame her. It’s one of the greatest original movie musicals of the past 50 years, with a score by Michel Legrand and Marilyn and Alan Bergman (all of it sung by Streisand alone), and yet she wasn’t nominated for Best Director — a slight, she writes, that left her “devastated.” (In addition, Isaac Bashevis Singer, whose story "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" was the source of the movie, was upset that Streisand had the nerve to add songs to it. The Nobel laureate should have gotten out more often.)

“No Wonder,” in which Streisand’s Yentl (disguised as a boy) observes Avidgor (Mandy Patinkin) being doted on by his intended (Amy Irving), is possibly the single best number. Streisand sings it with astute, rueful humor and a touch of heartache. And she's filmed the scene , set around a crowded, busy dinner table, with a warm intimacy. It's as good as anything from Funny Girl or On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, the movie musicals she made with directors William Wyler and Vincente Minnelli.

"Tell Him" with Celine Dion (1997)

There's a reason My Name Is Barbra is almost 1,000 pages long. One of Streisand's dozens of celebrity duets (everyone from Judy Garland to Willie Nelson ), this glossy pop hit with Céline Dion has a complicated, highly detailed backstory.

Well: At the 1997 Academy Awards ceremony, Natalie Cole was expected to perform “I Finally Found Someone,” the theme from Streisand’s The Mirror Has Two Faces. “Someone” itself was a Streisand duet with Bryan Adams, and she and Adams were both nominees for writing it, but she was too nervous to perform the number on stage. Cole, however, bowed out of the broadcast because of illness, and Dion was recruited to sing instead. Streisand was seated in the audience, enjoying the moment when Michael Kidd, choreographer of her 1969 film Hello Dolly , was receiving an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. Then, she writers, “I suddenly started hemorrhaging. (I was having more problems with endometriosis.) I quickly got up and rushed to the bathroom.” She missed Dion’s performance as a result,  but afterward apologized and told her: "We have to find a song to sing together.”

And so we have “Tell Him.” Dion kicks it off, singing with trembling innocence about a romantic crisis, then Streisand enters, taking on the role of a wiser, stronger woman more experienced in such messes — a doyenne of love. The song is melodic but also a bit histrionic. It sounds as if it could be sung in Italian through microphones. But, long story short, the harmonies of these two superstars are irresistible.

"Carefully Taught/Children Will Listen" (2006)

Streisand was born too late for the Golden Age of the American musical, but anything by Rodgers and Hammerstein, whose scores glow  with lyrical sincerity,  seems to connect with her emotionally.  “Carefully Taught,” a song about racial tolerance, is one of the lesser numbers from South Pacific, but on the Live in Concert 2006 album Streisand performs it delicately, with just the lightest dramatic punch to sell its message. “Taught” is nicely paired with “Children Will Listen” by modern musical master Stephen Sondheim. Unlike many Sondheim songs, whose standards tend to have an ironic sting that isn't necessarily in Streisand's wheelhouse, this one is sweetly anodyne, and she performs it with rich authority.

And that’s just the tip of the Streisberg.

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