Love BurtThe Songs of Burt Bacharach
About This Event
Love Burt: The Songs of Burt Bacharach at The Bitter End presents the repertoire of Burt Bacharach, the American composer and songwriter who, with lyricist Hal David, wrote hundreds of pop songs. The evening emphasizes traits of his writing—atypical chord progressions, shifting time signatures and uncommon small‑orchestra instrumentation—elements he shaped as arranger, conductor and producer.
About The Songs of Burt Bacharach(song)
At The Bitter End, Love Burt performs a set drawn from “The Songs of Burt Bacharach,” revisiting the American composer’s pop catalog shaped with lyricist Hal David. The program highlights Bacharach’s signature craft: unexpected harmonic turns, subtle rhythmic shifts, and melodies engineered for the grain of a singer’s voice. In New York, where Bacharach’s work has long circulated through clubs, Broadway-adjacent stages, and radio, these songs function as shared vernacular. One clear takeaway is how rigorously his writing hides its complexity inside plainspoken pop.
About the Artist
Burt Bacharach
Burt Freeman Bacharach was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist, widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music. He composed hundreds of pop songs, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David.