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4-9 DCINY.qxp_Carnegie Hall Rental 3/30/17 1:56 PM Page 1 Sunday Afternoon, April 9, 2017, at 2:00 Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General Director Jonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic Director presents Total Vocal with Deke Sharon DEKE SHARON, Guest Conductor, Arranger & Creative Director KELLEY JAKLE, Guest Soloist CHESNEY SNOW, Guest Artist CAST MEMBERS OF BROADWAY’S “In Transit,” S pecial Guests WRITERS FROM BROADWAY’S “In Transit,” Special Guests SHEMESH QUARTET (Mexico), Special Guests FORTE (2016 ICHSA National Champions), Special Guests Distinguished Concerts Singers international All Arrangements by Deke Sharon KRISTEN Getting There (from “In Transit”) ANDERSON-LOPEZ Featuring the Cast Members of “In Transit” MAX MARTIN Since U Been Gone (from “Pitch Perfect”) & LUKE GOTTWALD BOWIE, MERCURY, Under Pressure (from “The Sing-Off”) MAY, TAYLOR, & DEACON ED SHEERAN Thinking Out Loud (from Vocalosity) & AMY WADGE SIEDAH GARRETT Man in the Mirror & GLEN BALLARD PITCH PLEASE, FROM NORTHWOOD HS, Featured Ensemble (continued) PLEASE SWITCH OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES. 4-9 DCINY.qxp_Carnegie Hall Rental 3/30/17 1:56 PM Page 2 CARTER, “Campfire" Cups (from “Pitch Perfect 2”) TUNSTALL-BEHRENS, & GERSTEIN JOHN MEDORA You Don’t Own Me & DAVID WHITE CHAMBER BRAVURA, Featured Ensemble BILLY JOEL Uptown Girl SHERYL CROW & Tomorrow Never Dies MITCHELL FROOM KELLEY JAKLE, Guest Soloist RONSON, MARS, Uptown Funk (from Vocalosity) BHASKER, LAWRENCE WILLIAMS, & GALLSPY Distinguished Concerts International Soloists – Act 1 Christina Abele, Victoria Akinsanya, Gabriela Amon, Annemarie Arnold, Savannah Ashley, Brady Beach, Sarah Beck, Dean Bisco, De Leon Boudreaux, Dennis Bragg, Hailey Bragg, Natalie Broussard, Andrew Bonomolo, Jacob Buster, Alina Cao, Genevive Dewalt, Anthony DiMeglio, Jaina Ervin, Maia Hacker, Kat Hammock, Samantha Hernandez, Mackenzie Hoult, Judge Katz, William Lee, Mitchell Norris, McKenzie Novak, Cassie Portrey, Natalie Raimondo, David Rider, Charlie Rudolph, Joya Saxena, Evan Segimoto, Samantha Sherman, Morgan Stumm, Jewell Twombly, Skyla Wheeler Intermission MAURICE WHITE Sing a Song & AL MCKAY CHARLES STROUSE Put On a Happy Face STING Fields of Gold CHRIS JOBE Life’s So Lyrical FORTE, FROM CENTERVILLE HS, Featured Ensemble JOHN DEACON You’re My Best Friend arr. DEKE SHARON Potpourrí Mexicano/Mexican Medley SHEMESH QUARTET, Featured Ensemble WONDER, WRIGHT, Signed, Sealed, Delivered HARDAWAY, SOUNDCROWD, Featured Ensemble & GARRETT 4-9 DCINY.qxp_Carnegie Hall Rental 3/30/17 1:56 PM Page 3 KRISTEN We Are Home (from “In Transit”) ANDERSON-LOPEZ Featuring the Writers of “In Transit” KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ, JAMES-ALLEN FORD, RUSS KAPLAN, SARA WORDSWORTH CHESNEY SNOW, Guest Artist RICK SPRINGFIELD Jessie’s Girl GEORGE GERSHWIN Summertime DEKE SHARON, Featured Soloist PREVITE, MARKOWITZ Time of My Life (from “The Sing-Off”) & DENICOLA Distinguished Concerts International Soloists – Act 2 David Bacon, Anneliese Bohlman, Janica Bühler, Sabrina Campelo, Emmaline Carter, Grace Chico, Lindsey Clemmer, Cecily Dowd, Alison Eastwood, Maddy Eddy, Jackson Guirnalda, Melanie Kugelmann, Jeremias Lubberger, Gabby Reynolds, Sophia Rosado, Faith Simmons, Natalie Spiroff, Kristi Woods-Nogal We Want To Hear From You! Use #TotalVocal to post your post-concert and intermission photos and comments to @DCINY on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram! | DCINY DCINY thanks its kind sponsors in education: Artist Travel Consultants, VH-1 Save the Music, Education Through Music, High 5, and WQXR. For information about performing on DCINY’s full season listing or about purchasing tickets, e-mail [email protected], call (212) 707-8566, or visit our website at www.DCINY.org. DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS INTERNATIONAL NEW YORK 250 WEST 57th STREET, SUITE 1610 NEW YORK, NY 10107 (212) 707-8566 4-9 DCINY.qxp_Carnegie Hall Rental 3/30/17 1:56 PM Page 4 Notes ON THE PROGRAM by Deke Sharon Getting There (from “In Transit”) Kristen Anderson-Lopez On December 11, Broadway’s first all a way Stage at the end of today’s 3 pm cappella show opened to a standing show, which is why we have the entire ovation, and the audiences have been cast opening today’s Carnegie Hall leaping to their feet ever since. The all- concert, as they need to rush back to star cast will be returning to the Broad - the Circle in the Square. Since U Been Gone (from “Pitch Perfect”) Max Martin & Luke Gottwald We needed a fun song that would sup - Luckily I’d already arranged it and had port a wide range of voices and emo - been singing it with the House Jacks, so tions for the audition scene in Pitch Per - with a couple of tweaks, voilà! fect , and this song fit the bill perfectly. Under Pressure (from “The Sing-Off”) Bowie, Mercury, May, Taylor, & Deacon NBC originally only wanted one open - find on YouTube) so much that they ing number for the first episode of The decided to make a big group opening Sing-Off , but they liked this arrange - number the signature opening for every ment and performance (which you can episode. Thinking Out Loud (from Vocalosity) Ed Sheeran & Amy Wadge Vocalosity joined us a year ago at This was one of the audience’s favorites: Carnegie Hall, and since then have per - a traditional streetcorner rendition of the formed a hundred shows across America. Ed Sheeran Grammy winner. Man in the Mirror Siedah Garrett & Glen Ballard Hundreds of years from now, if only a the need for us to be the change we’d like few songs survive from our lifetimes, I to see in the world, and it’s especially firmly believe this will be one of them. It’s powerful to hear it sung by the next gen - almost like a modern-day hymn about eration (in this case: Northwood). 4-9 DCINY.qxp_Carnegie Hall Rental 3/30/17 1:56 PM Page 5 “Campfire” Cups (from “Pitch Perfect 2”) Carter, Tunstall-Behrens, & Gerstein We had to somehow include the Cups song of reconciliation with a tinge of song in Pitch Perfect 2 , and yet we melancholy as the Barden Bellas sing knew we just couldn’t do it again, so around a campfire shortly before their this was our answer: transform it into a college graduation. You Don’t Own Me John Medora & David White Originally performed by a 17-year-old thanks to Grace and G-Easy. Now it Leslie Gore, this classic song of female will be performed by a new generation empowerment is back on the pop charts of teenagers: Chamber Bravura. Uptown Girl Billy Joel This was the first song I ever performed pop songs (e.g. For the Longest Time ), with the Tufts Beelzebubs, during my and there is no better than his love song audition. Billy Joel might be the best to future wife, Christie Brinkley. living writer of male vocal harmonies in Tomorrow Never Dies Sheryl Crow & Mitchell Froom Not all Bond films are great, and no one by Sheryl Crow, is one of the best from would argue that Tomorrow Never Dies recent years, perfectly capturing that late- is one of the finest. However, the theme 60’s Shirley Bassey swagger. song, written and originally performed Uptown Funk (from Vocalosity) Ronson, Mars, Bhasker, Lawrence, Williams, & Gallspy Every decade there are one or two songs because they’re simply perfect dance you know you’ll hear played by DJ’s and songs. This Bruno Mars smash hit will party bands for the rest of your life, outlive us all. Sing a Song Maurice White & Al McKay Earth, Wind & Fire seems to have only orchestrations, and impossibly tight grown in stature and relevance since grooves that make our hearts swell their heyday in the 1970s, as people when we hear them. recognize the deep artistry, complex 4-9 DCINY.qxp_Carnegie Hall Rental 3/30/17 1:56 PM Page 6 Put On a Happy Face Charles Strouse When people think of Dick Van Dyke, getting that he was the original star of they usually imagine him in Mary Pop - Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway, where he pins or in his own black and white TV inimitably crooned this classic. show opposite Mary Tyler Moore, for - Fields of Gold Sting There was always a poetry in Sting’s many generations find its way to folk lyrics, but it wasn’t until he began his song status: the songwriter forgotten, solo career and slowed down that his but the melody and lyrics known and music writing fully aligned. This song beloved. remains one of his finest, and may in Life’s So Lyrical Chris Jobe Life’s So Lyrical - it’s not often I’m School A Cappella champs, they make asked to arrange an original song, espe - videos with celebrities, and they release cially one written by a teenager, but albums full of original songs by their Forte is not your average high school a members. This song is the title track cappella group. They’re the reigning from their first all-original CD. International Championship of High You’re My Best Friend John Deacon A great song off one of my favorite Straight No Chaser as a gift to their albums (Queen’s “A Night At The mothers on Mother’s Day. Opera”), it was originally arranged for Potpourrí Mexicano/Mexican Medley arr. Deke Sharon Mexico and Latin America has been in and continue to make to the US and the the news a great deal lately, and yet world. You may not know these time - rarely is there mention of the tremen - less songs by name, but you undoubt - dous cultural contribution they have edly know them all. 4-9 DCINY.qxp_Carnegie Hall Rental 3/30/17 1:56 PM Page 7 Signed, Sealed, Delivered Wonder, Wright, Hardaway, & Garrett The timeless music of Motown changed music from the 1960s.