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I Could Write A Book The Jazz Age Writers Saturday, August 7, 8:00 pm Silva Concert Hall - Hult Center |
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Our Grand Finale concert will focus on three American writers -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), John O'Hara (1905-70), and Damon Runyon (1880-1945). In the case of Fitzgerald, we'll show how he constantly referenced song titles and lyrics, in both his short stories and novels, in a way that they became almost a literary version of a film score, and used these songs, and their associations, to augment and further his characters and plots. There are over seventy instances of popular songs mentioned in his books, and that's not counting his own "made-up" titles and lyrics...
With O'Hara and Runyon, we'll turn the tables and show the influence their writing had on popular composers, with excerpts from Rodgers & Hart's 1940 Pal Joey, which was based a series O'Hara short stories published by The New Yorker in the late 1930s, and Frank Loesser's 1950 masterpiece Guys And Dolls, which was based on several Damon Runyon short stories: "The Idyll of Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure" and "Pick The Winner", all from his 1932 collection, Guys And Dolls.
| SET I -- F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Tender Is The Night (1941) |
| | Hindustan (1918) | O. Wallace/H. Weeks (w/m) |
| | Smiles (1917, The Passing Show of 1918) | J. Callahan (w), L. Roberts (m) |
| | Tea For Two (1925, No, No Nanette) | I. Caesar (w), V. Youmans (m) |
| | Lovely To Look At (1935, Roberta) | D. Fields (w), J. Kern/J. McHugh (m) |
| | Top Hat, White Tie And Tails (1935, Top Hat) | I. Berlin (w), I. Berlin (m) |
| | My Blue Heaven (1927) | W. Donaldson/G. Whiting (m) |
| | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (1933, Roberta) | O. Harbach (w), J. Kern (m) |
| | Beale Street Blues (1916) | W. Handy (w/m) |
| | The Love Nest (1920, Mary) | O. Harbach (w), L. Hirsch (m) |
| | Ain't We Got Fun (1921, Satires of 1920) | R. Egan (w), G. Kahn (m) |
| | Sheik Of Araby (1921) | H. Smith/F. Wheeler (w), T. Snyder (m) |
| SET II -- John O'Hara & Damon Runyon |
| John O'Hara - Pal Joey (1940) |
| | You Mustn't Kick It Around (1940, Pal Joey) | L. Hart (w), R. Rodgers (m) |
| | What Is A Man? (1940, Pal Joey) | L. Hart (w), R. Rodgers (m) |
| Damon Runyon - Guys and Dolls (1950) |
| | Guys and Dolls (1950, Guys and Dolls) | F. Loesser (w/m) |
| | If I Were A Bell (1950, Guys and Dolls) | F. Loesser (w/m) |
| | I've Never Been In Love Before (1950, Guys and Dolls) | F. Loesser (w/m) |
| | Luck Be A Lady (1950, Guys and Dolls) | F. Loesser (w/m) |
| | I'll Know (1950, Guys and Dolls) | F. Loesser (w/m) |
| | Fugue for Tinhorns (1950, Guys and Dolls) | F. Loesser (w/m) |
| | | Featured composers, lyricists, creators | | | | | Irving Berlin Irving Caesar J. Will Callahan Walter Donaldson Raymond B. Egan Dorothy FieldsJohn Golden W. C. Handy Otto Harbach Lorenz Hart Louis A. Hirsch Raymond Hubbell Gus Kahn Jerome Kern Frank Loesser Jimmy McHugh Lee S. Roberts Richard Rodgers Harry B. Smith Ted Snyder Oliver Wallace Harold Weeks Francis Wheeler George A. Whiting Vincent Youmans |
| | | Show Personnel | | | | | Ken Peplowski, director, clarinetShirley Andress, vocalsIan Whitcomb, vocalsJulie Alsin, vocalsBob Cross, vocalsBill Hulings, vocalsClairdee, vocalsDoug Miller, bassChuck Redd, drumsRod Fleeman, guitarDan Barrett, trombone |
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I Could Write A Book Ticket Prices |
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| AA | 36.00 | 30.75 | 29.00 | 27.00 | 18.00 | | A | 30.00 | 25.50 | 24.00 | 22.50 | 15.00 | | B | 24.00 | 20.50 | 19.25 | 18.00 | 12.00 | | C | 18.00 | 15.50 | 14.50 | 13.50 | 9.00 |
 | Silva Concert Hall Hult Center for the Performing Arts One Eugene Center
Eugene, Oregon
541-682-5000 |
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Purchase tickets at: 1. The Shedd Ticket Office 541.434.7000 2. The Hult Ticket Office 541.682.5000
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