MS Haran was hit by a car on the side that comes out of a driveway after dropping off his curriculum at a hotel, according to a friend, bridge McIntyre. Never regained consciousness.
A remarkable purity singer whose style pop-jazz unchanged simple eco singers big bands of the 1940s, most notably Ella Fitzgerald, MS Charan made his debut for the cabaret of Manhattan in 1988 at the ballroom now deceased. Swing slightly, avoided posturing melodramatic to deliver deep and thoughtful interpretations of the rules by Rodgers and Hart, Harry Warren, the Gershwins, and others. He had a special love for texts wry, melancholy of Hart, to whom he paid tribute to two different shows.
Her personality reflects the spirit of being cheerful, Pot-(with touching screwball zany) and submissive glamour of long-ago stars of cinema as Myrna Loy, Irene Dunne and Claudette Colbert. Because he admired the actresses, his attitude was not that a fan inebetito, but a modern woman with a feminist sensibility that refracted past through the present.
Comparison of texts by Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers to Oscar Hammerstein in his show 2002 to "falling in love with love: The Rodgers and Hart Story," commented that told us what texts Hammerstein "should be" versus Hart, who told us what "made us feel".
A singing Idol special Doris Day was, who has interviewed in a PBS documentary, "Doris Day: Sentimental Journey," which he also wrote and co-produced. She has contributed to the PBS documentary "Remembering Bing," Irving Berlin's "America," "when we were young: lives of the child movie stars" and "satchmo."
Doris Day was that the subject of MS Charan acclaimed 2007 exhibition of Feinstein at Loews Regency, where he made his last appearance main at the end of 2009 with a tribute to Johnny Mercer.
Some of pianists have accompanied its included Bill Kharlap, Don Rebic, Fred Hersch, Lee Musiker and Tedd Firth. But his most frequent partner was Richard Rodney Bennett.
The second of eight children in an Irish Catholic family, MS. Haran was the daughter of a Professor of theatre and film at the City College of San Francisco and grew up fascinated by music and films of the 1930s and 1940s. As a teenager, was an Irish step dancer.
Moved to New York in the 1970s and he made his theatrical debut as a singer of the band "The 1940s Radio Hour" and appeared off Broadway in Manhattan, "Music", "Table" and "Swingtime heebie jeebies." On television, he had a recurring role as singer disco series "100 Centre Street".
She married twice. His son, Jacob, from his second marriage, to the writer and Director Joe Gilford, whom he divorced, she survives, as six brothers: Terence, Bronwyn Harris, Brigid, Ned, Tim and Eithne Bullick; an uncle, And McCarthy; an Aunt Patty Lautze; and several nieces and nephews. She is survived by her stepmother, Loyce Haran.
MS Charan made his recording debut on Columbia in 1992 with "there is a small Hotel: Live at the Algonquin." Next Album included "this fun world: Mary Cleere Haran sings texts by Hart" (1995), "This heart of mine: classic film songs of the Forties" (1994), "Pennies from heaven: songs from the Depression Era movie" (1998), "the memory of All That: Gershwin Broadway and in Hollywood" (1999), and "Crazy Rhythm: Manhattan 1920s" (2002).
For one of its most popular show, "an affair to remember," in 1994, MS. Charan visited 1950 to deconstruct cultural iconography of the Decade and chastise affectionately his films for their lack of humor. Joked that he preferred to show message heavier of Rodgers and Hammerstein musical by Cole Porter who portrayed "fun, sex and money as the most important things of life".
For MS Haran, who faced her audience sardonically as "perfect companion in New York", while maintaining a sense of humor was paramount.
