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Symphonic Swing ★  ★ Orchestral Big Band Pops Show  ★ ★ ★ Symphonic Swing ★ ★ orcheStral Big Band popS Show Tad Calcara (801) 484-3777 [email protected] Dear Symphony Programing Director, Greetings! My name is Tad Calcara. I am writing to introduce you to our new orchestral pops show — Symphonic Swing. The show celebrates one of the great eras in American popular music that will thrill your audience. We have developed a show that brings the lively Swing Era personalities of the Big Bands to your stage. View our 5-minute DVD presentation that highlights many of the features of our show. Symphonic Swing presents an energetic review of all the great bands and singers from this musically rich time. We take your audience back to the early Big Band days of the roaring 1920s (think Great Gatsby), to New Deal America in the mid 1930s when Swing music became the popular music of the land, and into the challenging years of the 1940s during World War II. Throughout this time the Big Bands provided the musical soundtrack. From the King of Swing — Benny Goodman — to the sophisticated sounds of Duke Ellington, your audience will be “jitterbugging” in the aisles. Swing music has a universal popular- ity with its youthful rhythm and irresistible beat. The big hits like “In the Mood” and “Sing Sing Sing” will appeal to all generations. Please enjoy the DVD and the audio CD of our latest album with my Big Band, the New Deal Swing Orchestra. Contact me directly if you need any additional information. I look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, (801) 484-3777 Tad Calcara [email protected] 632 E. 16th Avenue Tad Calcara Salt Lake City, UT 84103 aBout the Show 1 Symphonic Swing is a fast-paced and exciting musical re- What We Provide vue of Swing music of the Big Band era. Boston Pops con- • Tad Calcara: clarinet, piano, MC ductor Ketih Lockhart asked Tad Calcara to put together • Melissa Pace Tanner: vocalist a pops show that would showcase the exciting sounds of • Tony DiLorenzo: lead/solo trumpet Swing Music. The result was a musical triumph artistically • Scott Harris: lead alto saxophone/clarinet that sold out the hall each night. • Jay Lawrence: trap set drums The show is a complete package which provides six key • Glenn Crytzer: guitar musician/soloists and a set of full orchestral arrangements Complete show of arrangements for full pops orchestra. from start to finish. All of the orchestrations are based on Promotional and marketing materials. the original arrangements made famous by the Big Bands. In addition to the excellent arrangements and brilliant soloists, What You Provide (instrumentation) the program is narrated by Tad Calcara, whose enthusiasm • full compliment of pops orchestra strings: violin 1, violin is equaled only by his clarinet and piano playing. Fascinating 2, viola, cello, bass background about the songs and the musicians who made • double woodwind: pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinet, bassoon them famous help bring the era and the music to life. • 4 French horns in F The Symphonic Swing pops show is a program that appeals • 1 tuba to all generations. The same unique qualities that made Big • 1 alto sax Band Swing music popular still captures the imagination of • 2 tenor sax all young and old today. The music of Benny Goodman, • 1 baritone sax Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Tommy • 3 trumpets Dorsey are a few of the bands that are featured. Addi- • 3 trombones tionally our vocalist Melissa Pace Tanner brings back the • 1 jazz double bass fabulous style of the great singers of the time — from Ella • 3 orchestra percussion Fitzgerald to Peggy Lee. • 1 harp aBout tad calcara 2 Tad Calcara, clarinetist and pianist, comes easy for Calcara who has has a dual career in the music world soloed on numerous occasions bridging the gap between Jazz and with various orchestras. He has classical music. He is creator of the performed clarinet solo works of orchestra pops show Symphonic Copland, Mozart, Artie Shaw, and Swing, which celebrates the music Lutoslawski with many orchestras of the Big Band era of Swing music. including the New World Sym- He is also an accomplished classi- phony, Utah Symphony, Big Band cal clarinetist holding the position Jazz hall of Fame Orchestra, the of principal clarinet with the Utah Texas Festival Orchestra at Round Symphony. During his 15 seasons Top (broadcast on NPR), and the with the Symphony both sides of his Cleveland Orchestra. Mr. Calcara musical talents have been featured. has performed in recital for Radio Prior to his appointment with the France in Montpellier and in the Utah Symphony he performed with spring of 1999 the first ever New the New World Symphony, Cleve- World Symphony Honors Con- land Orchestra, and the Grand cert featuring a classical to Jazz Tetons Music Festival Orchestra. clarinet retrospective. When Mr. Calcara was performing with the New World In addition Calcara leads his own authentic 16-piece Big Symphony, music director Michael Tilson Thomas recog- Band, the New Deal Swing Orchestra, specializing in nized his talent for Jazz and featured him on the New classic Jazz & Swing Music from the 1930s and 40s. His World Symphony album New World Jazz (RCA Red Seal performances with New Deal Swing have included con- 1998), performing as clarinet soloist in Bernstein’s Pre- certs with the Utah Symphony, Salt Lake Jazz Festival, and lude, Fugue, and Riffs. Later during his first season with centennial tributes to Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. the Utah Symphony, music director Ketih Lockhart fea- The New Deal Swing Orchestra’s first recording will be tured him on many Big-Band-themed programs includ- released the summer of 2013. Calcara’s musical artistry ing a televised performance of Artie Shaw’s Clarinet has lead to some outstanding collaborations with former Concerto. It was then that Lockhart asked him to put to- Big Band legends such as Franz Jackson (former member gether his own Big Band pops show. The result was one of the Fletcher Henderson and Fats Waller bands) and the of the most exciting pops shows to play Salt Lake City sole surviving member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and audiences demanded its return. Performing as soloist vocalist Herb Jeffries. reviewS 3 “The Utah Symphony’s principal clarinetist stepped “Calcara produces a beautiful tone with his instru- out front and led his colleagues in one of the most fun ment. It’s rich and warm in the lower register and deli- concerts in recent memory. Calcara’s passion for his cate and round in the upper, and always expressive. subject was contagious as he gave the Abravanel Hall He brings out the best qualities of the clarinet with his crowd a primer on swing music. Even more contagious sensitive and cleanly phrased playing. At Thursday’s was his musical exuberance on the clarinet, at the key- concert, Calcara showed impeccable musicianship board and on the podium. He even stood on the piano and exceptional technique, which he put to good use.” bench for a lively clarinet solo on ‘King Porter Stomp.’” – Deseret News – Salt Lake Tribune “Calcara executed the lighting-fast zigzag of pitches “Still, it was Calcara who dazzled the crowd with his in the cadenza with perfect control, an inflected the versatility and enthusiasm.” more deliberate passages with a personal stamp. Cal- – Salt Lake Tribune cara’s command of the spiky sections and low-down jazz show illustrate a thorough command of Copland’s “Calcara shone as the group leader in both the quality musical idioms.” and versatility of his performance. Switching between – Salt Lake Tribune piano and clarinet, he proved to be adept at both, par- ticularly when showcasing the music of stride pianist.” “Tad Calcara’s terrific performance of the Clarinet Con- – Deseret News certo provided the high point in Saturday evening’s concert . Calcara had the full measure of this work, “Calcara, who is the symphony’s principal clarinet- segueing seamlessly from the calm repose of the open- ist, showed what a tremendous jazz musician he is as ing movement to the jazz-inflected finale.” well.” – South Florida Sun-Sentinel – Deseret News “The soloist’s liquid legato in the opening pages was “His ingratiatingly smooth phrasing, suave tone and as striking as his virtuosic chops in the long central nimble articulation made the virtuosic fast movements cadenza. In the finale, Calcara kicked out the synco- sound easy, but the highlight was the sweet poignancy pations with all the richness and panache of the con- he brought to the slow movement.” certo’s dedicatee, Benny Goodman.” – Salt Lake Tribune – Sun Sentinel “Principal Clarinetist Tad Calcara gave particularly “Calcara is a consummate musician whose playing is rousing solos” defined by its refined sense of beauty . .” – Salt Lake Tribune – Deseret News aBout melissa pace tanner & tony dilorenzo 4 Melissa Pace Tanner Tony DiLorenzo, trumpet, is a proud regular with has appeared as soloist Tad Calcara’s New Deal with the Boston Sympho- Swing Orchestra and the ny, Boston Pops, and New Utah Symphony. She has York Philharmonic, and two jazz recordings of her has held positions with the own, Am I Blue, a tasteful Philadelphia Orchestra, collection of loved jazz New World Symphony, standards, which has just Santa Fe Opera, and Utah been re-released in Ja- Symphony. He has also pan and is played all over performed with the San the world. Her second Francisco, Seattle, Buffalo, CD and a labor of love is and Cincinnati symphony Calm & Carefree, an al- orchestras. Tony is also a bum of originals with a Brazilian flair. In addition she is the member of Proteus 7, a mixed chamber ensemble.
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