GERSHWIN FOR CHORAL SINGERS Featured Literature at 2016 FMEA Presentation (*indicates pieces highlighted during presentation)

Voicings Available Title Arranger SATB But Not For Me Philip Kern SATB/3-pt/2-pt Clap Yo’ Hands Greg Gilpin—tune seems to lose integrity as a gospel swing SSA/SATB Clap Yo’ Hands Pete King--ok *SATB Teena Chinn—good H.S. starter, not rhythmically demanding, good for tuning *SATB/SAB/SSAA/TTBB Embraceable You Jay Althouse—simple but sweet *SATB/SAB Embraceable You Carl Strommen—very simple, lots of unison *SSAA/SATB/SAB Embraceable You Kirby Shaw—great for tuning *TTBB/SATB/SAB/SSA Mark Hayes--excellent SATB Fascinating Rhythm Mac Huff—overreaches for “cleverness” *SAB/SATB Russ Robinson—nice swing, not overly complex *SSA Medley Bill Holcombe--excellent SATB Gershwin! John Higgins—almost too much crammed in (every transition)—I suppose it illustrates the wealth of material available SSA Gershwin for Girls Teena Chinn—ok, simple, all ballads SATB Gershwin Trio, A Jay Althouse—fine, not too demanding *SATB/SAB/2-pt Gershwin Portrait, A Mac Huff—lots of material and lots of ideas SATB/TTB/3-pt/2-pt Gershwin Showcase Carl Strommen—too patchwork SAB/SATB/TTB I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’ Douglas E. Wagner SSAB/SATB Mark Hayes SATB I Got Rhythm Clay Warnick—too many liberties SSA/SATB/SAB I Got Rhythm Kirby Shaw--Latin SATB I Got Rhythm Pete Schmutte SATB I Got Rhythm Mark Hayes—why additional lyrics? *SSAA/SATB/SAB I’ve Got a Crush on You Jay Althouse—good, short and sweet SATB I’ll Build a Robert Page—catchy! Too short? *SATB Jolly Tar and the Milkmaid, The Gregg Smith—cute story SAB Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off Russell Robinson SATB/2-pt Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off Russell Robinson *TTBB Paul Langford—new, extremely creative, thick texture *SSA/SATB/SAB Love Is Here to Stay Mark Hayes *SATB Love Is Here to Stay Darmon Meader—nice harmonies, not impossible *SATB Love Is Here to Stay Kirby Shaw—do-able, always classy SATB Steve Zegree—good study in vertical harmonies *SSAA Man I Love, The Mark Hayes—always tasteful *SAB/SATB/SSA Nice Work If You Can Get It Jay Althouse—fine, utilizes a traditional homorhythmic approach—tunes like this are easy to sound good since melodies are simply (and fairly static) with great harmonic changes underneath SATB Nice Work If You Can Get It Mark Brymer SATB Nice Work If You Can Get It Greg Gilpin SATB Nobody But You Robert Page—well. . . . SATB Ed Lojeski SAB/SATB Porgy and Bess Douglas Wagner—this SAB seems a bit thin harmonically SATB Porgy and Bess Clay Warnick--some tacky transitions; interesting choices, ending with “Boat” *SATB Sing of Spring Gregg Smith--unusual SATB/SAB Larry Shackley—glad to see this one, feels long, ending? SSA/SATB/SAB Someone to Watch Over Me Jay Althouse SATB/SAB Someone to Watch Over Me Jay Althouse SSATB Someone to Watch Over Me Jamey Ray--complicated, too dissonant, too thinck SATB Someone to Watch Over Me Teena Chinn *SSA Someone to Watch Over Me Kirby Shaw—always good, great kybd part SATB/SAB/TTBB Strike Up the Band! Mark Hayes--straight SAB/SATB/SSA Summertime Russell Robinson—straight SATB/SSAB/SSA/TTBB Summertime Mark Hayes *SATB Summertime Derek Fawcett—very interesting and creative; funk swing *SATB/SSAA/TTBB Summertime Mac Huff--nice SA Swingin’ with the Gershwins Mac Huff—nice arrangement, but when tempo picks up on 2nd tune, it never slacks— drives all the way to the end with driving instrumental bass lines *SATB ‘S Wonderful Phil Mattson—obviously, GREAT! SAB ‘S Wonderful Russ Robinson—uses verse, pretty good SATB They Can’t Take That Away Carl Strommen--straight From Me SATB/SAB They Can’t Take That Away Mark Hayes--ok From Me *SATB Who Could Ask for Anything Jay Althouse—I’ve only seen it this More? year--new