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Article: Barbra Streisand gets nostalgic on latest CD

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When Barbra Streisand was a 19-year-old ingenue, she never had a problem performing in front of small crowds _ it was her livelihood. The Brooklyn girl could only get gigs in clubs that sat a few dozen people.

As she got more famous she abandoned tiny clubs for grand stages. After a while, it got to the point where she couldn't perform for a small crowd, even if was an intimate gathering of friends and family.

"I can't get up and sing when I see faces, I just don't know how to react _ I need blackness to go into my own kind of world," the 67-year-old said in an interview last week. "It's disturbing to see people, because if they're not totally enthralled I'm ...

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