03-20 Total Vocal with Deke Sharon _CH Rental 3/11/16 11:52 AM Page 1 Sunday Afternoon, March 20, 2016, at 2:00 Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage Changing Lives through the Power of Performance 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 CHRISSIE FIT , Guest Soloist HANNAH JULIANO , Guest Soloist ANDREW FITZPATRICK , Guest Soloist THE FILHARMONIC & VOCALOSITY , Special Guests HIGHLANDS VOICES & STAY TUNED , Special Guests Distinguished Concerts Singers International All Arrangements by Deke Sharon MARY WILDE & Kids in America RICKY WILDE (from “The Sing Off”, Season 5) PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER & Spiderman ROBERT HARRIS BERRYMAN, BUCKLAND, Fix You CHAMPION, & MARTIN Featured Ensemble: Vocalosity BEN BERGER & Shut Up and Dance RYAN MCMAHON Featured Ensemble: Vocalosity AIMEE DUFFY & Mercy STEPHEN BOOKER Featured Ensemble: Chamber Bravura (program continued) PLEASE SWITCH OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES. 03-20 Total Vocal with Deke Sharon _CH Rental 3/11/16 11:52 AM Page 2 BROWN, CREWE FOSTER, Bellas Back To Basics: Boogie Woogie HOLLAND,MCELROY, Bugle Boy, You Can’t Hurry Love, Lady NOLAN, STARKS, & Marmalade, My Lovin’ WESLEY MIKA Lollipop (from Pitch Perfect 2 ) BILLY STEINBERG & True Colors TOM KELLY Featured Ensemble: Key of She CAILLAT, BABYFACE & Try REEVES (from Lifetime Television’s Pitch Slapped ) Chrissie Fit, Guest Soloist Featured Ensemble: Stay Tuned & Highlands Voices PIERSON, SCHNEIDER, Love Shack STRICKLAND, & WILSON (from Lifetime Television’s Pitch Slapped ) Distinguished Concerts International Soloists —Act 1 Kristina Abele, Nick Agulair, Savannah Ashley, Brett Boardwine, Katara Cade, Faith Carey, Katie Curran, Nicole De Kozan, Lexi Di Lucia, Jordan Dodson, Heather Donnar, Catherine Elita, Christina Elke, Cory Ensle, Savannah Fitzgerald, Kenna Fletcher, Gianna Gallo, Kat Hammock, Kelsey Hodge, Zoe Kaege, Riley Kelly, Olivia Kuykendall, Renatta LaFargue, Zach Madden, Olivia Mann, Chloe Mesogitis, Charles Meyers, Meg Monroe, Hannah Mora, Kayley Morrow, Madison Stoddard, Sergio Vinas, Erin Whipperman, Emma Wilson Vocal Percussionists: Paul Denley, Morgan Lumpkin, Gabe Denley, Cedric Colyer, Chesney Snow, & Tracy Robertson Intermission JEFF LYNNE Mr. Blue Sky (from The Sing Off ) JOHN LENNON & Beatles Medley PAUL MCCARTNEY ADELE Chasing Pavements Hannah Juliano, Guest Soloist DOWNES, HORN & Video Killed The Radio Star WOOLLEY Featured Ensemble: Googapella, (Google) & The Vocal Network, (Facebook) 03-20 Total Vocal with Deke Sharon _CH Rental 3/11/16 11:52 AM Page 3 HAROLD FALTERMEYER Alex F (from the movie Beverly Hills Cop ) Andrew Fitzpatrick, Vocal Percussion BURT BACHARACH & Close To You HAL DAVID JIMMY VAN HEUSEN Come Fly with Me lyrics by SAMMY CAHN Featured Soloist: Deke Sharon PAUL SIMON & Sound of Silence ART GARFUNKEL Featured Ensemble: Revv52 SIA FURLER, Flashlight CHRISTIAN GUZMAN, Featured Ensemble: The Filharmonic JASON MOORE & Arranged by: Joe Caigoy & Trace Gaynor SAM SMITH TOBY GAD & All of Me JOHN STEPHENS LIONEL RICHIE All Night Long Distinguished Concerts International Soloists —Act 2 Kim Bercsenyi, Liz Bryson, Andre Bunton, Kristin Condon, Amanda Rae Cross, Teddi Culter, Cort Delano, Daniel Duguay, Alice Fredine, Valerie Gerbrandt, Kate Heney, Michael Heney, Robert-Jan Huijsman, Megan Johnson, Eunice Kim, Hannah Korody, Johan Lillioja, Emma Lovino, Kendra Lush, Peita Luti, Kelly Marchiso, Mallorie Miller, Rishi Patel, Jennifer Peters, Chris Pierce, Brownyn Schuman, Rohan Shirali, Chris Thompson, William Tsoi, Carolynne Ward Vocal Percussionists: Andrew Fitzpatrick, Chesney Snow, Tracy Robertson, Anthony Boucher, Max Block, Ross Kohler, & Lawrence Lee 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 and partners in education: Artist Travel Consultants, VH-1 Save the Music, Education Through Music, and High 5. For information about performing on DCINY’s series 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 W. 57TH STREET, SUITE 1610 NEW YORK, NY 10107 (212) 707-8566 03-20 Total Vocal with Deke Sharon _CH Rental 3/11/16 11:52 AM Page 4 Notes ON THE PROGRAM by Deke Sharon KIDS IN AMERICA (from The Sing Off, Season 5) Mary Wilde & Ricky Wilde Although it was only scheduled to hap - show. This was the most recent opening pen once, before the very first show number from December 2014, the orig - Season 1, NBC loved The Sing Off inal dating back to 1982, sung by the opening number with all groups so UK’s Kim Wylde. much they demanded it before every SPIDERMAN Paul Francis Webster & Robert Harris There have been many better superhero James Bond theme at twice the speed, T.V. shows and movies through the years, play it over the blues while wrestling but has there ever been a better superhero lyrics about web slinging to fit the rhyme theme song than Spiderman ? Take the scheme… what’s not to love?!? FIX YOU Berryman, Buckland, Champion, & Martin Every few years there’s a single pop melodically, harmonically and lyrically song that seems to be sung by almost for a cappella. That’s why each night as every a cappella group out there. Most an encore Vocalosity puts down their recently it was Fix You , and with good microphones and sings it acoustically. reason: the song is perfectly constructed SHUT UP AND DANCE Ben Berger & Ryan McMahon Was there a bigger song in 2015? Not cheesy 80s. You can try and resist but that I could tell, as this song blasted eventually the song’s overwhelming from every storefront and car stereo good nature will win you over. The year round, welcoming us back to the 1980’s, on the other hand… 03-20 Total Vocal with Deke Sharon _CH Rental 3/11/16 11:52 AM Page 5 BELLS BACK TO BASICS: BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY, YOU CAN’T HURRY LOVE, LADY MARMALADE, MY LOVIN’ Brown, Crewe, Foster, Holland, McElroy, Nolan, Starks, & Wesley Probably my favorite arrangement groups. Alas the Pointer Sisters’ “I’m from Pitch Perfect 2 because we got to So Excited” got cut out of the final give the audience a decade-by-decade movie version …and what do you history of popular women’s harmony mean Hanson isn’t a girl group? LOLLIPOP (from Pitch Perfect 2 ) Mika I recall over dinner sitting with my wonderfully over the top, we won - partner in crime Ed Boyer, lamenting dered: “What would an overeager col - the fact that the Treblemakers only get lege music director do in a desperate one featured moment in Pitch Perfect 2 . attempt to get attention?” Of course! A Knowing we needed to make this scene gospel breakdown! TRY (from Lifetime Television’s Pitch Slapped ) Caillat, Babyface, & Reeves Although much of the work we did addressed teenagers’ self image. Singing around self image was never shown on lead is a woman who deserved far more television, this was perhaps my proud - time singing lead in Pitch Perfect 2 as a est moment working with Stay Tuned new Barden Bella: the amazing Chrissie on the show, as we dug deep and Fit! LOVE SHACK (from Lifetime Television’s Pitch Slapped ) Pierson, Schneider, Strickland, & Wilson Perhaps a cappella’s greatest gift to the allow a word of it, and now Stay Tuned world is the expression of pure joy on and Highlands Voices are fast friends. singers faces as they harmonize togeth - When you make music the right way, er. Although Pitch Slapped did their everyone wins. best to play up the rivalry, I wouldn’t MR. BLUE SKY (from The Sing Off ) Jeff Lynne I wore this ELO record out, playing it track became cassette became CD over and over again when it was first became digital download, yet through released, relishing the layers of vocals all the format changes, a great song and strings. Since then vinyl became 8- remains a great song. 03-20 Total Vocal with Deke Sharon _CH Rental 3/11/16 11:52 AM Page 6 BEATLES MEDLEY John Lennon & Paul McCartney When conceiving Vocalosity, one of the musical periods from Gregorian chant first questions was “how do I give the to contemporary a cappella. I’m pretty audience a history of a cappella with - sure it’s the first time “Yellow out making it boring, obvious or didac - Submarine” has been sung as a tradi - tic?” Answer: use a different Beatles tional sea shanty. song to represent each of the important CHASING PAVEMENTS Adele I had an Aunt Adele growing up, and a me wonder if my great aunt Melba decade ago thought “well, that’s a (who was named after the legendary name you’re never gonna hear people Australian soprano Nellie Melba) will using again.” How wrong I was! This ever get the same treatment. was Adele’s first hit, and it all makes AXEL F (from the movie Beverly Hills Cop ) Caillat, Babyface, & Reeves “So you want me to arrange an a cap - mind. I’ll figure it out.” Joining the pella version of ‘Axel F’? But it has no adult choir is Das Sound Machine’s lyrics, almost no chords… it’s basically impossibly awesome beatboxer: just a single melody… actually, never Andrew Fitzgerald aka Fitz80! CLOSE TO YOU Burt Bacharach & Hal David When you’re younger you worry if the Carpenters!” It’s impossible not to, music you listen to is cool enough. with spectacular orchestrations, rich Then you become a certain age you harmonies, and above it all one of the stop caring what others think and real - greatest contralto voices of all time: ize “Wait a minute, I love the Karen Carpenter. 03-20 Total Vocal with Deke Sharon _CH Rental 3/11/16 11:52 AM Page 7 COME FLY WITH ME (from The Sing Off ) Jimmy Van Heusen Lyrics by Sammy Cahm A few months ago on December 12th appropriate to offer the chairman a the world celebrated Frank Sinatra’s belated birthday song… even though 100th birthday.