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Concert Program Booklet, June 7, 2015 NORTH SHORE CHORAL SOCIETY June 7, 2015 Glenview Community Church Glenview, Illinois SWING! Julia Davids, music director North Branch Jazz Ensemble, Joe Lill, director and trumpet Felicia Patton and Jeff Hedberg, soloists Sharon Peterson, piano Sing, Sing, Sing Louis Prima arr. New York Voices, Darmon Meader A Gershwin Portrait George and Ira Gershwin arr. Mac Huff Gershwin at the Opera Summertime • It Ain’t Necessarily So • I Got Plenty of Nuttin’ • My Man’s Gone Now A Gershwin Swing Set They Can’t Take That Away From Me • Nice Work If You Can Get It • ‘S Wonderful Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off • They All Laughed Splanky Neal Hefti arr. Sammy Nestico Lullaby of Birdland George Shearing and George Weiss arr. Marty Paich ~ Brief Intermission ~ Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Hughie Prince and Don Rae arr. Alan Glasscock Moonlight Serenade Glen Miller and Mitchell Parish arr. Mike Carubia Sway (Quien Será) Pablo Beltran Ruiz and Norman Gimbel arr. Kirby Shaw When the Sun Comes Out Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler arr. Marty Paich April in Paris Vernon Duke and E.Y. Harburg transcr. Jeff Hest Give Me Jesus L.L. Fleming My Soul’s Been Anchored Glenn Jones Try Jesus Robert Ray arr. Rollo Dilworth He Never Failed Me Yet Robert Ray The North Shore Choral Society thanks Gary Wendt and staff at Glenview Community Church. Thank you to The Saints for ushering at today’s concert. PROGRAM NOTES Could there be a better place to combine a choir and a jazz ensemble than in the Chicago area? For jazz, Chicago is its "second home" after New Orleans. When Prohibition took effect in that city, most of the Venues that aided the birth of jazz had been closed, and many of the finest musicians left to find work elsewhere. Since Prohibition was little more than a theoretical concept in Chicago, that work was found right here in northeastern Illinois. King OliVer, Kid Ory, and, soon after, Louis Armstrong all found Chicago to be a place where there was a burgeoning market for the new art form. Another place where musicians found (and still find) employment was in the church. Thomas A. Dorsey was one of the finest blues pianists on the planet, and he came to Chicago for the same reasons as many other jazz musicians: for the work. HoweVer, he also had a strong spiritual side and would go directly from performing at a blues club on a Saturday night to playing at his South Side church on a Sunday morning. He brought the jazz/blues Vocabulary to the spirituals and hymns, resulting in the fusion that became known as Gospel Music. While jazz was indisputably born in New Orleans, Gospel Music is a Chicago creation. The ability to combine a jazz ensemble with a full choir makes for the perfect opportunity to include a genre that will be right at home: Gospel Music. This afternoon you’ll hear a wide Variety of music for band and choir with some Chicago references. Dr. Robert Ray, the composer of our final two numbers, graduated from Northwestern UniVersity and is best known for his Gospel Mass and Gospel Magnificat, pieces that marry traditional church liturgy with contemporary gospel style music. And, of course, the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy was from ‘out Chicago way’! The NSCS is grateful to Joe Lill, Felicia Patton and Jeff Hedberg, and the North Branch Jazz Ensemble for inspiring us to ‘Swing’ with you today! ~ Julia Davids and Joe Lill LYRICS Sing, Sing, Sing Sing, sing, sing, sing. It’s callin’ me, callin’ you. All you got to do is sing. The harmony’s comin’ through, Girls and boys, make a noise; I guarantee that it’s true: Just try singin’ with a swing. The melody gets to you. Sing, sing, sing, sing, EV’rybody likes to sing, Throw all caution through the window; Summer, fall, winter, spring, That’s the only thing you gotta do These are all good times to sing. To let it all begin now. I can neVer get enough. When the music comes around, Just join in with your own sound. I used to sit around feelin’ like a lump; Here’s the thing you need to know: Was nothin’ in the world Just make it all up as you go. EVer make me jump; Shakespeare said, “The song’s the But then I got the bug; thing,” You should see me now: When you sing it with a swing. Pontificating more than the law allows. You gotta try to sing it out, I’m singing’ in the shower Ring it out, get a reaction. And it’s soundin’ so nice; If it don’t swing, I’m hummin’ by the hour You know it don’t mean a thing. And my hummin’ delights. Trumpets blare, cymbals ring; I’m gonna do my singin’ They all got their way to sing. Till the end of the day. Come on! Sing, sing, sing, sing; Hey! Feelin’ better; Got to make the rafters ring. Oh! So much better. Slow down; why you in a hurry? Light as a feather. Relax; there’s no need to worry. My blues are gone foreVer. Got no use for second guessing. No more denying, so dulcifying, You’Ve got notes that need expressing. Electrifying. Come on! Stop all your tiptoein’; One, two, three, we’re swinging, And once you get goin’, As you see, with no apology, There’ll be no stopping the melodies, So you might as well swing it, Fillin’ your heart an’ soul. It’s a kick in the pants. Now you’re singin’ with a swing. A Gershwin Portrait Gershwin at the Opera Summertime Oh, your daddy's rich, An’ the liVin' is easy, And yo’ ma is good lookin'. Fish are jumpin' So hush little baby An’ the cotton is high. Don't you cry. It ain't necessarily so. Wadoo, zim bam boddle-oo, De things dat yo' li'ble Hoodle ah da wa da, scatty wah. To read in the Bible, Oh Jonah, he liVed in a whale. It ain't necessarily so. For he made his home in Li'l David was small, but oh my! That fish's abdomen. He fought Big Goliath Oh Jonah, he liVed in a whale. Who lay down and dieth! I'm preachin' this sermon to show, Li'l David was small, but oh my! It ain't necessarily so. Oh, I got plenty of nuttin' I got no lock on my door; And nuttin's plenty for me. That's no way to be. I got no car, got no mule. Dey can steal de rug from de floor. I got no misery. Dat's O.K. with me, De folks with plenty o' plenty 'Cause de things dat I prize, Got a lock on the door. Like de stars in de skies, 'Fraid somebody's a-goin' to rob 'em Are all free. While they's out makin' more. I got my gal, got my song, got my lord, What for? Got heaven the whole day long. My man's gone now, Climbin' up the stairs. Ain't no use a listenin' Old Man Sorrow's For his tired footsteps Come to keep me comp’ny, Whisperin' beside me Tellin' me I'm old now When I say my prayers. Since I lose my man. Ain't that I mind workin'; Old Man Sorrow sittin’ by the fireplace, Work and me is travelers Lyin’ all night long, by me in the bed. Journeyin' together Tellin’ me the same thing, To the promised land. Mornin’, noon, and eVenin’, But Old Man Sorrow’s That I’m all alone now since my man is Marchin' all the way with me, Dead. A Gershwin Swing Set They Can’t Take That Away From Me The way you wear your hat, We may neVer, neVer meet again The way you sip your tea, On the bumpy, bumpy road to love, The mem’ry of all that, Still I'll always, always No they can't take that away from me. Keep the memory of: The way your smile just beams, The way you hold your knife, The way you sing off key, The way we danced till three, The way you haunt my dreams, The way you changed my life, No they can't take that away from me. No they can't take that away from me. Nice Work if You Can Get It Holding hands at midnight Just imagine someone 'Neath a starry sky… Waiting at the cottage door. Nice work if you can get it, Where two hearts become one, And you can get it, if you try. Who could ask for anything more. Strolling with the one girl, Loving one who loves you, Sighing sigh after sigh... And then taking that Vow... Nice work if you can get it Nice work if you can get it, And you can get it, if you try. And if you get it, won't you tell me how. ‘S Wonderful 'S wonderful! 'S marVelous! You’Ve made my life so glamorous. You should care for me. You can't blame me for feeling 'S awful nice, 'S paradise, amorous. 'S wonderful! 'S marVelous! 'S what I loVe to see! That you should care for me! Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off You say ee-ther and I say eye-ther, Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto, You say nee-ther and I say ny-ther; Better call the calling off off. Ee-ther, eye-ther, nee-ther, ny-ther, Ee-ther, eye-ther, nee-ther, ny-ther, Let's call the whole thing off.
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