The Concert Singers

Summer Concert 2008

In Love with The Concert Singers

Music from Broadway and Movie Musicals

Program

• Summertime (1935: from Porgy and Bess; w. Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward; m. George Gershwin; arr. Russell Robinson)  {07}
• Selections from "A Gershwin Portrait" (1991: w. Ira Gershwin; m. George Gershwin; arr. Mac Huff)
  • Fascinating Rhythm {07}
    • 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 both Ethel Merman and Ginger Rogers made their Broadway debut)
• They Can't Take That Away From Me (1936: from the film Shall We Dance; m. George Gershwin; w. Ira Gershwin; arr. Strommen) {07}
• Something's Coming/Tonight (1957: from West Side Story; m. Leonard Bernstein; w. Stephen Sondheim; arr. Ed Lojeski) {07}
• Blue Skies (1927: wm. Irving Berlin; from Betsy; arr. Steve Zegree) {07}
• Over the Rainbow (1939: from The Wizard of Oz; m. Harold Arlen; w. E. Y. Harburg, arr. Teena Chinn) {07}

Intermission

• In Love With Love (2005: m. Lorenz Hart; m. Richard Rodgers; arr. Kirby Shaw)
  • "Falling in Love with Love" (1938: from The Boys from Syracuse)
  • "This Can't Be Love" (1938: from The Boys from Syracuse)
  • "My Funny Valentine" (1937: from Babes in Arms)
  • "With a Song in My Heart" (1929: from Spring Is Here) 
• "Blue Moon" (1934: m. Lorenz Hart; m. Richard Rodgers; arr. Ruth Artman)
• "Till There Was You" (1950: wm. Meredith Willson; from The Music Man; arr. Kirby Shaw)
• "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (1953: wm. Carter Stanley; arr. Kirby Shaw; used in the firm O Brother Where Art Thou)
• "You'll Never Walk Alone" (1945: Rodgers & Hammerstein; from Carousel; arr. Mac Huff)
• "Give My Regards to Broadway" (1904: wm. George M. Cohan; from Little Johnny Jones)
• "It's a Grand Night for Singing" (1945: Rodgers & Hammerstein; from the film State Fair)
• "In the Still of the Night" (1937: wm. Cole Porter; from the film Rosalie)
• "Comedy Tonight" (1962: wm. Stephen Sondheim; from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
• "Embraceable You" (1928-30: w. Ira Gershwin; m. George Gershwin; from the 1930 show Girl Crazy; originally written for the unpublished show East Is West; arr. Steve Zegree) 

Note: numbers in brackets {07} indicate year of last (known) performance.

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Performance

• Sunday, July 14, 2007: Annual Ice Cream Social and Vocal Jazz Concert, 4pm at Covenant Presbyterian Church.