The Concert Singers

"Say It With Music"

Vocal Jazz Concert (and Ice Cream Social)

July 18, 2003

Covenant Presbyterian Church

3:30 p.m.

PROGRAM

• Say It With Music (1931: wm. Irving Berlin; arr. Roy Ringwald; MF: Music Box Revue; MT: Mayfair and Montmartre [1921]; MT: Alexander's Ragtime Band [1938]; theme song of Jack Payne)
• Cheek to Cheek (1935: wm. Irving Berlin; arr. Roy Ringwald; MF Top Hat [1935], which starred Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers)
• You're Just In Love (1950: wm. Irving Berlin) & Friendship (1939: wm. Cole Porter; from Anything Goes) [Harris & Andy]
• I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face (1956: from My Fair Lady; w. Alan Jay Lerner; m. Frederick Loewe; arr. Steve Zegree)
• And All That Jazz (1973: w. Fred Ebb; m. John Kander; arr. Kirby Shaw; from Chicago)
• I Can't Give You Anything But Love (1928: from Blackbirds of 1928; w. Dorothy Fields; m. Jimmy McHugh; arr. Dave Riley & Jay Althouse)
• Jeepers Creepers (1938: w. Johnny Mercer; m. Harry Warren; arr. Pete Schmutte; introduced in the musical film Going Places; also quoted in the film Yankee Doodle Dandy, biopic of George M. Cohan)
• Stormy Weather (1933:  w. Ted Koehler; m. Harold Arlen; arr. Jay Althouse; theme song of Lena Horne and Ethel Waters)
• Georgia on My Mind (1930: w. Stuart Gorrell; m. Hoagy Carmichael; arr. Gene Puerling; ed. Phil Mattson)
• Sweet Georgia Brown (1925: wm. Kenneth Casey & Maceo Pinkard; authorship erroneously credited to Ben Bernie; arr. Kirby Shaw)
• Blue Moon (1934: w. Lorenz Hart; m. Richard Rodgers; arr. Ruth Artman)
• Blue Moon (as performed by the Marcels)

INTERMISSION

• Selections from "A Gershwin Portrait" (1991: w. Ira Gershwin; m. George Gershwin; arr. Mac Huff)
  • Gershwin Swing Set
    • They Can't Take That Away From Me (1936: from the film Shall We Dance)
    • Nice Work If You Can Get It (1937: from the film A Damsel in Distress)
    • 'S Wonderful (1927: from the musical film Funny Face)
    • Let's Call the Whole Thing Off (1936: from the film Shall We Dance)
    • They All Laughed (1936: from the film Shall We Dance)
  • Fascinating Rhythm
    • Fascinating Rhythm (1924: from Lady Be Good)
    • I Got Rhythm (1930: from Girl Crazy; used in the musical films Girl Crazy [1930 & 1932]; Rhapsody in Blue [biopic of GG]; An American in Paris; and When the Boys Meet the Girls;  in the show Girl Crazy, in which both Ethel Merman and Ginger Rogers made their Broadway debut)
  • Gershwin in Love
    • Our Love Is Here To Stay (1937: from the film The Goldwyn Follies; popularly revived in 1991; also used in the film An American in Paris)
    • But Not For Me (1930: from Girl Crazy)
    • Somebody Loves Me (1924: w. B. G. De Sylva & Ballard MacDonald; from George White's Scandals of 1924; used in the 1945 film Rhapsody in Blue [biopic of GG])
    • Oh Lady Be Good (1924: from Black-Eyed Susan; used in the 1936 film Shall We Dance)
    • Someone to Watch Over Me (1926: from Oh, Kay!)
    • Embraceable You (1930: from Girl Crazy)
    • The Man I Love (1924: from Lady Be Good)
    • I've Got A Crush on You (1930: from Treasure Girl; used in the 1927 and 1930 versions of Strike Up the Band)

"Encore":

• Steam Heat (1954: w. Richard Adler & Jerry Ross; arr. Kirby Shaw; from the show The Pajama Game)

• Read the narration from the show.
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