The Concert Singers
presents
Got That Swing!
A Vocal Jazz Concert and Ice Cream Social
Sunday, August 3, 1997
Covenant Presbyterian Church
3:30 p.m.
PROGRAM
- I've Got the World on a String (1932: Harold Arlen; arr. Kirby Shaw)
- It's Only a Paper Moon (1933: Harold Arlen; Arr. Kirby Shaw) [Rebecca Bethke
& Tom Hill, soloists]
- Stormy Weather (1933: Harold Arlen; arr. Kirby Shaw)
- Jeepers Creepers (1938: Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren; arr. Pete Schmutte)
[Dan Poyourow, soloist]
- Blues in the Night (My Momma Done Tol' Me) (1941: Harold Arlen; arr. Kirby Shaw)
- That Old Black Magic (1942: Harold Arlen; arr. Steve Zegree) [Suzanne Lawrence & Tim Nowicki, soloists]
- Come Rain or Come Shine (1946: Harold Arlen) [Cynthia Rothschild, soloist]
- Something's Gotta Give (1954: Johnny Mercer; arr. Teena Chin) [small ensemble*]
Sing Along
- Over the Rainbow (1938: Harold Arlen)
- Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive Harold (1944: Arlen)
- Perdido (1942:
Juan Tizol)
- Mood Indigo (1931: Duke Ellington, Irving Mills & Albany Bigard; arr. Ed
Lojeski) [Cynthia Rothschild, Soloist]
- It Don't Mean a Thing (1932: Duke Ellington; arr. Mack Huff)
- In a Sentimental Mood (1935: Duke Ellington; arr. Donald Moore)
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore (1942: Duke Ellington) [Harris J. Levey, Rebecca Bethke, Vicki Curry, & Suzanne
Lawrence]
- I'm Beginning to See the Light (1944: Duke Ellington; arr. Kirby Shaw) [Barbara Miller, soloist]
- I'm Just a Lucky So and So (1945: Duke Ellington; arr. Kirby Shaw) [Harris J. Levey, soloist]
- All That's Jazz (arr. Roger Emerson)
- Satin Doll (1958: Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington, & Billy Strayhorn)
- Lullaby of Birdland (1952: George Shearing)
- Misty (1954: Errol Garner)
- Day by Day (1946: Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl & Paul Weston)
Program Notes
Biographies of Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer,
and Duke Ellington