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presents a cappella performing The History of Rock and Soul: with Terri Hemmert (April 2016)

Take the A Train and His Famous Orchestra (1941) Billy Strayhorn

GOSPEL

Shout Sister Shout (1941) Clarence Williams

O Happy Day Edwin Hawkins Singers (1969) Edwin R. Hawkins

COUNTRY

Crazy (1962)

Hey Good Lookin’ (1951) Hank Williams

Ring of Fire (1963) June Carter and Merle Kilgore

Will the Circle Be Unbroken (1935) Charles Gabriel, words by Ada Halverson and revised by A.P. Carter

FOLK

Blowin' Peter, Paul & Mary (1963)

If I Had a Hammer (1950) and Peter, Paul & Mary (1962) and

This Land is Your Land (1944) Woody Guthrie

BLUES

Sweet Home Chicago (1936) Robert Johnson

Got My Mojo Working (1957) Preston Foster EARLY ROCK AND SOUL

Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens (1946) Joan Whitney and Alex Kramer

Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby Louis Jordan (1944) Billy Austin and Louis Jordan

Paper Doll (1943) Johnny S. Black

In the Still of the Night The Five Satins (1956) Fred Parris

Why Do Fools Fall in Love and (1956) Frankie Lymon and

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (1960) and

He’s So Fine (1962) Ronald Mack

ROCKABILLY

Chantilly Lace Big Bopper (1958) J.P. Richardson

Wake Up Little Susie (1957) Felice Bryant and Boudleaux Bryant

Great Balls of Fire (1957) and

Blue Suede Shoes (1956) Carl Lee Perkins

MUSIC CITIES ( TRIBUTE)

Ain’t That a Shame (1955) Antoine Domino and David Bartholomew

Working in the Coal Mine (1966)

Chapel of Love (1964) , and

INDEPENDENT RECORD LABELS ( TRIBUTE)

Please Mr. Postman (1961) Robert Bateman, Dobbins, William Garrett, and

Baby Love (1964) Brian Holland, Edward Holland and Lamont Dozier

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1968) Norman J. Whitfield and

Dancing in the Street (1964) Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson and

BEACH BOYS

Good Vibrations (1966) and

BRITISH INVASION (1964) and Paul McCartney

You Really Got Me (1964)

Paint It Black (1966) and

My Generation (1965) Peter Townsend

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE

Stand (1969) Sylvester Stewart

Everyday People Sly and the Family Stone (1968) Sylvester Stewart

Thank You Slly and the Family Stone (1969) Sylvester Stewart (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)

encore: All My Loving The Beatles (1963) Lennon/McCartney

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

As the years have gone by with Chicago a cappella, the more I continue to marvel at the teamwork that goes into this enterprise, and the more fortunate I feel at being able to work with amazing artists who are also superb human beings and team players. In the case of this specific show, the lead creative team of Terri Hemmert and Patrick Sinozich has created a spectacular event in which our singers can shine, and the singers get to really strut the stylistic versatility that qualified them to get into the group in the first place. For Terri’s part, the project stems from her decades of teaching on this very topic at Columbia College Chicago, her encyclopedic knowledge of and enthusiasm for the subject matter, and her ability to distill down to the essence of what makes a musical style what it is. Patrick’s musical gifts are too many to number here—for starters, he is a phenomenal pianist, which you won’t experience in this show—but the ones he has brought to this production include his incredible talent for choral and especially a cappella arranging, his ability to capture the nature of a quickly and precisely, his talent at tailoring his for the voices at hand, and the way he can talk to singers in rehearsal, to make any genre immediately sound true.

I’ll let Patrick tell you more about this creative journey, and I’ll close with simple thanks for your being here to witness an explosion of joy and celebration—The History of Rock and Soul.

—Jonathan Miller Founder and Artistic Director

FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR/ARRANGER

Welcome to “The History of Rock and Soul,” a varied program of , gospel, country, folk, , and other genres that helped create what we call Rock and Soul—a popular music form that continues to recreate itself constantly. This cross-pollination of rhythms, harmonies, instrumental groupings and unique individual voices created something that seems simple on the surface, yet reveals itself as complex, multi-layered, and rich. Oral traditions, religious fervor, homespun harmonies, racial unrest and social turmoil, the recording industry—all these influences over the course of the 20th century allowed popular music to become the voice of millions. We are fortunate to have another voice, that of Terri Hemmert, leading us on this journey. Terri’s college course on this very subject became our musical “syllabus,” and her input served as our guide as the program was created. The vast majority of these were originally performed in some combination of lead , back-up singers, bass, drums and . Often a keyboard would be added, and sometimes a group of singers (trio or ) would replace the lead/back-up . Less frequently there were additional instruments, including harmonica, , various brass instruments, steel guitar, and most exotically, the sitar (Paint It Black) and the Theremin ().

As I began the process of arranging all of this material, translating the vocals and instrumentals for a 9-voice a cappella troupe, I had to decide which singers would sing the text – whether as lead or back-up singer – and which would imitate the various instruments. Secondly, I had to figure out how to make a voice sound like a guitar, a keyboard, a trumpet, and so on. Since most of the songs included a bass guitar, the lowest-voiced singer ended up with the valuable but potentially wearisome task of providing what is at times a less-than-glamorous role. Similarly, most of the songs use some form of percussion, so one singer was going to have to “thomp” and “kih” and “ts” (can you guess which percussion instruments these sounds represent?) throughout much of the program. I spent many late nights experimenting with a wide array of syllables, searching for just the right one to recreate the “chung chuck” of Elvis’s Blue Suede Shoes, or the “dn dk a dn” for the guitar in Peter, Paul and Mary’s rendition of If I Had A Hammer. In almost every arrangement I have tried to remain true to the original intention of the piece. I didn’t want to write a vocal jazz version, for example, of what was originally a hit. I did this so that we could best tell the story of how these different types of music informed and influenced what we would later call “rock” and “soul.” Most importantly, I realized that all of these songs required the voice of a particular singer (or vocal group) for their power and appeal. What would Crazy be without Patsy Cline? Or without Jerry Lee Lewis? And on and on, with Mick Jagger, the Beatles, Marvin Gaye and the Supremes. Not only is this program an abbreviated catalogue of some of the most memorable tunes of the mid-20th century, but it also represents the unique voices that have cried to us, made us happy, sung our discontent and our longing.

My regard and my respect for these and performers have grown by leaps and bounds throughout this process. After spending countless hours listening to multiple performances by the original artists (where would we be without YouTube?) I began to sense that many of these performers started with an intuitive expressive ability. Through repetition, those expressions became actual song forms, which led them to break the very rules that regulated the structure of their songs in the first place. In other words, they borrowed, developed, and refashioned existing forms into Rock and Soul, and these new styles – and their brilliant creators – became our vinyl companions and the heartbeat of an era.

– Patrick Sinozich

Illinois College Fine Arts Series Membership Contributors in the 2020-2021 Season as of January 22, 2021

Founder of the Arts :: Donors contributing $1,000 or more Elizabeth Aldridge Neal ’60 & Dianna Hart

Conservator of the Arts :: Donors contributing $500 or more Joy French Becker ’67 Bob & Karen Sibert Donald & Alice Tracey

Friend of the Arts :: Donors contributing $250 to $499 Elizabeth Becker & Alban Haxhinasto ’02 Eddie ’70 & Sandra Carpenter Chuck ’65 & Reva Krell Adah Mitchell Dale Robertson ’92 Dave Truesdell & Jean Harlow Truesdell

Benefactor of the Arts ($100 level) :: Donors contributing $100 to $249 J. David & Pat Aputis Bone ’63 Liliana Costa Jeff & Addie Coultas Larry & Mary Kuster Jennifer Phebus ’07 John & Kristina Roth Evelyn & Sid Welles

Benefactor of the Arts ($50 level) :: Donors contributing $50 to $99 Adam & Kristin Van Aken Jamison ’99 Lillian Korous Dennis Ptak Steve Varble

Illinois College Fine Arts Series Board 2020-2021

Garrett Allman, Chair Alice Tracey, Vice-Chair Lynda , Secretary Jennifer Phebus ’07, Treasurer Garrett Allman, Program Director Bryan Leonard, Publicity Director Craig Steenerson, House Manager

Terri Benz Nichol Eyman DelGiorno ’97 Mary Fergurson Dianna Hart Jeremy Hommowun ’11, ’14 Timothy Kramer Rich McCoy Darlene Nelson ’70 Steve Varble