Coming in the Spring of 2018 ... a concert The Music of Lerner & Loewe ... and Loewe without Lerner there’s not enough room to tell you about it. ...and Lerner without Loewe If you’re not signed up for our mailing list, DO IT NOW so you don’t miss out! Friday, October 27, 2017 - 7:30 p.m. The Saturday Club 125 W. Kendal Street, Vacaville Samanticschoir.org Saturday, October 28 - 7:30 p.m. St. Clement’s Episcopal Church 2837 Claremont Boulevard, Berkeley Samantics Is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization under the Regulations of the internal Revenue Service. All Contributions to Samantics Sunday, October 29 - 4:00 p.m. are tax-deductible to the Extent Provided by Law. First United Methodist Church 2100 J Street, Sacramento P.O. Box 5418 Vacaville, CA 95698 1983 DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER 1985 MY MAN GODFREY (music: Charles Strouse, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) (music: Gerard Kenny, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Another Life Dancin’ My Blues Away Anyone Who Loves Don’t Do That Auf Wiedersehen Garbage Isn’t What It Used To Be Dance a Little Closer Happy Thanksgiving It Was You Again Happy, Happy New Year I’ve Been Married He Always Comes Home to Me Miss Hilary Bacon of Beacon Hill Homesick Some People I Don’t Know Try Love I Got a New Girl I Never Want To See You Again Lerner wrote few stand-alone songs, preferring the It Never Would’ve Worked character-driven form of theatre. Below: one with college Mad friends, two for movies, and two written for his last wife, Liz Robertson. No Man Is Worth It On Top of the World 1940 Between Friends Pas de deux (with Stanley Miller and Ted Straeter) There’s Always One You Can’t Forget There’s Never Been Anything Like Us 1978 It’s All for the Best (music: Jack Lemmon, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) What Are You Gonna Do About It? [played on the piano by Lemmon in the film TRIBUTE] Why Can’t the World Go and Leave Us Alone? A Woman Who Thinks I’m Wonderful 1984 Secret Places (film theme) (music: Michel Legrand, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) 1985 Brocades and Coronets Somebody’s Girl (music: Gerard Kenny, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) 1985 KENNEDY CENTER HONORS Merce Cunningham, Beverly Sills, Bob Hope Alan Jay Lerner, Irene Dunne, Frederick Loewe ALAN JAY LERNER Lerner turned down both writing lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and creating the died June 14, 1986 English translation for LES MISÉRABLES due to his failing health. His last project, not completed, was a musicalization of the William Powell/Carole Lombard FREDERICK LOEWE screwball comedy, MY MAN GODFREY. died February 14, 1988 1974 THE LITTLE PRINCE (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Be Happy Closer and Closer I Need Air I Never Met a Rose Samantics I’m on Your Side It’s a Hat Little Prince Vanessa Archuleta Ryan Ritter Matters of Consequence A Snake in the Grass Songs tried during or cut after Philadelphia previews: Danny Beldi John Reilly Saunders Why Is the Desert? American Dreaming You’re a Child Can You Love 2 Oscar nominations: Original Song Score and Jonathan Blum Lisa Singh Best Song (“Little Prince”) Carolina is Preparing to Secede The Grand Old Party Hail, James A. Garfield! / Hail, Arthur! The Honor of Your Presence Onalee Castelan Sara Smith It’s My Country (Mr. Lincoln) The Mark of a Man Sydney Christoffersen Quin Smith Me Middle C The Money-lovin’ Minstrel Parade Emily Clark Ayana Smith The Monroviad The Nation that Wasn’t There South Philadelphia Heather Clark Franchesca Sonoyama The Switch That House/This Time To Make Us Proud Anne Henly Jacob Tucker Uncle Tom’s Funeral The Voices that Live in the Wall Natalie Jones Matt Van Zandt 1976 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE We (music: Leonard Bernstein, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) What Happened? Auctions Julian LeForestier Orlana Van Zandt The Ball Bright and Black Duet for One (First Lady of the Land) 1979 CARMELINA Gary Levy Eddie Voyce Forty Acres and a Mule (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) I Love This Land All That He Wants Me To Be Trella Malato JoAn Wade If I Was a Dove Carmelina It’s Gonna Be Great Church Christine Nicholson Madeleine Wieland The Little White Lie Come with Me to San Torino Lud’s Wedding (I Love My Wife) I Must Have Her On Ten Square Miles by the Potomac River I Wonder How She Looks Bob Rennicks Jackie Zipp Pity the Poor I’m a Woman Prelude The Image of Me Sam Schieber,Director The President Jefferson March The Image of You The Red, White and Blues It’s Time for a Love Song Rehearse! Mayor’s Prologue Samantics is a non-profit singing group that exists to build public appreciation for The Robber-Baron Minstrel Parade One More Walk Around the Garden the widest possible range of vocal music through performance and education. Seena Prayer Founded in 2009, the 30-person chorus hails from Sacramento, West Sacramento, Sonatina (Allegro; Menuetto; Rondo) Signora Campbell Natomas, Galt, Vacaville, Fairfield, Benicia and Vallejo, and performs throughout Take Care of This House Someone in April the greater Sacramento Valley and the Bay Area. For each concert, Samantics We Must Have a Ball Why Him? strives to provide an entertaining mixture of music ranging from classical to Welcome Home, Miz Adams Yankee Doodles Are Coming to Town Vaudeville, ensuring that a Samantics concert is like no other. 1971 LOLITA, MY LOVE (music: John Barry, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) All You Can Do Is Tell Me You Love Me At the Bed-D-By Motel Beardsley School for Girls Buckin’ for Beardsley Charlotte’s Letter Dante, Petrarch and Poe Farewell, Little Dream, Goodbye Going, Going, Gone Have You Got What You Came With? How Far Is It to the Next Town? I Always Believe Me 1969 COCO (music: Andre Previn, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) I Must Have Her Always Mademoiselle In the Broken Promise Land of Fifteen A Brand New Dress Lolita But That’s the Way You Are March Out of My Life Coco The Same Old Song Fiasco Saturday Gabrielle Sur Les Quais de Ramsdale, Vermont Let’s Go Home Tell Me, Tell Me Mademoiselle Cliché de Paris Songs cut during Boston tryout: The Money Rings Out Like Freedom I Found You at Last On the Corner of the Rue Cambon If It Ain’t Fun Orbach’s Bloomingdale’s, Best and Saks It’s a Bad, Bad World The Preparation Mother Needs a Boyfriend When Your Lover Says Goodbye A Woman Is How She Loves The World Belongs to the Young Songs cut during previews: Someone on Your Side Turn on the Lights 1973 GIGI (Broadway) (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) The Contract The Earth and Other Minor Things I Never Want To Go Home Again In this Wide, Wide World COCO was nominated for 7 Tony Awards, including Best Paris Is Paris Again Actress (Hepburn) and Best Musical, winning only 2 for The Telephone Supporting Actor and, Song cut during previews: ironically, costumes–which Da Da Da Da were created by MY FAIR GIGI was nominated for 4 Tony Awards, including Best LADY designer Cecil Beaton! Actor (Alfred Drake), Costumes and Scenery, winning only 1 for Best Score for a Musical to Lerner & Loewe. Songs cut during Boston tryout, as was the leading man: Dolly’s Seduction Marriage a la Mode Mom The Normal Thing To Do [songs intended, tried briefly or added to the tour] Domestic Champagne Waltz I’ll Not Marry Love Did Me In Solicitor’s Song 1961-63 I PICKED A DAISY When I Come Around Again (music: Richard Rodgers, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Yankee Doodle Come Back To Me [Barbara Harris, John Cullum and Lerner & Lane’s score were nominated for Tony Awards] I Picked a Daisy Who Is There Among Us Who Knows? 1970 ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN After Loewe’s retirement following CAMELOT, and Oscar Hammerstein’s death after the opening of THE SOUND SEE FOREVER (film) OF MUSIC, Lerner teamed with Richard Rodgers to write (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) a new show, I PICKED A DAISY. The pairing did not go Songs added to the film, not including those co-opted well and little was produced. Lerner later re-used some from the psychiatrist’s role by Streisand: of his writing in the newly-titled reworking of the same Go to Sleep story with former partner, Burton Lane. He Isn’t You [new lyric] Love With All the Trimmings Songs filmed, but cut after previews: Thank God for People Like Me Who Is There Among Us? 1965 ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) At the Hellrakers’ Come Back to Me Don’t Tamper with My Sister Hurry! It’s Lovely Up Here! Melinda 1969 PAINT YOUR WAGON (film) (music: Andre Previn, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) On a Clear Day You Can See Forever [when Loewe declined on adding songs for the film, On the S.S. Bernard Cohn Previn provided the music] Ring Out the Bells Best Things She Wasn’t You The First Thing You Know Tosy and Cosh Gold Fever Wait ‘Til We’re Sixty-Five The Gospel of No Name City What Did I Have that I Don’t Have? A Million Miles Away Behind the Door When I’m Being Born Again 1 Oscar nomination for Adapted Score Musical Timeline for Alan Jay LERNER & LOEWE LOEWE WITHOUT (song titles in italics) 1935 Cheer for Choate Today (music and lyric: Alan Lerner and Carlton Tobey) School football song, Lerner’s earliest known work FREDERICK LOEWE born June 10, 1901, Berlin 1958 GIGI (film) 1936 THE ILLUSTRATORS’ SHOW (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) (music: Frederick Loewe, lyric: Earle Crooker) À Toujours 1914 soloist with A Waltz Was Born in Vienna Berlin Symphony [also used in SALUTE TO SPRING] Gaston’s Soliloquy Gigi [Oscar for Best Song] 1960 CAMELOT 1923 Kathrin Gossip (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) (lyric: R.