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Vicki Brabham, director Centerpiece Notes on a life in Broadway Jazz Thu, Aug 9, 1:30 - 3:00 pm Jaqua Concert Hall, The Shedd Institute |
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One of Vicki Brabham's early muses was a book: a collection of unpublished lead sheets of classic Broadway songs and jazz standards transcribed and collated by a group of students at Berklee School of Music in Boston during the 1970s as a way of facilitating the playing and teaching
Centerpiece is one of 4 OFAM 2018 concerts presented twice:
Evening: Fri, Aug 3 - 8:00 pm
Matinee: Thu, Aug 9 - 1:30 pm
of classic jazz improvisation. The Real Book was (and remains) a must-have for professional musicians; Vicki ran into it as a high school student in the '80s while serving as accompanist for a community college class — an “ah-ha moment” for her of sorts, a heightened awareness of the full extent of the rich creative potential that she could tap into in the classic show tunes as a jazz musician and arranger. The book has served as an important source of inspiration for her, as it does for so many working musicians, to this day. For this concert, Vicki and friends pay tribute to that inspiration in a celebration of the Broadway songbook as jazz.
| Event Personnel | | | | | Vocalists | | | | Musicians | | |
|  | Hey There (1954) The Pajama Game Words & music by Jerry Ross, Richard Adler |
|  | On A Clear Day (1965) On A Clear Day You Can See Forever Words by Alan Jay Lerner - Music by Burton Lane |
|  | Just In Time (1956) Bells Are Ringing Words by Betty Comden, Adolph Green - Music by Jule Styne |
|  | Yesterdays (1933) Roberta Words by Otto Harbach - Music by Jerome Kern |
|  | Centerpiece (1958) Words & music by Jon Hendricks, Harry Edison |
|  | September Song (1938) Knickerbocker Holiday Words by Maxwell Anderson - Music by Kurt Weill |
|  | Bewitched (1940) Pal Joey Words by Lorenz Hart - Music by Richard Rodgers |
|  | My Favorite Things (1959) The Sound Of Music Words by Oscar Hammerstein II - Music by Richard Rodgers |
|  | Some Other Time (1944) On The Town Words by Betty Comden, Adolph Green - Music by Leonard Bernstein |
| Featured composers, lyricists, creators | | | Richard Adler, - Maxwell Anderson, 1888-1959 Harold Arlen, 1905-1986Leonard Bernstein, 1918-1990 Nacio Herb Brown, 1896-1964 Betty Comden, 1917-2006 Harry Edison, - Dorothy Fields, 1905-1975George Forrest, - Ira Gershwin, 1896-1983Adolph Green, 1915- Oscar Hammerstein II, 1895-1960 Otto Harbach, 1873-1963 Lorenz Hart, 1895-1943 Jon Hendricks, - Gus Kahn, 1886-1941Jerome Kern, 1885-1945 Burton Lane, 1912-1997 Alan Jay Lerner, 1918-1986 Frederick Loewe, 1901-1988 Jimmy McHugh, 1895-1969 Johnny Mercer, 1909-1976Cole Porter, 1891-1964Richard Rodgers, 1902-1979 Sigmund Romberg, 1887-1951 Jerry Ross, - Stephen Sondheim, 1930- Jule Styne, 1905-1994 Kurt Weill, 1900-1950 Robert Wright, - |
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Centerpiece Ticket Prices |
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AA | 39.00 | 35.25 | 33.25 | 31.25 | 19.50 | A | 35.00 | 31.50 | 29.75 | 28.00 | 17.50 | B | 30.00 | 27.00 | 25.50 | 24.00 | 15.00 | C | 25.00 | 22.50 | 21.25 | 20.00 | 12.50 |
 | Jaqua Concert Hall The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts 285 E Broadway Eugene, Oregon 541-434-7000 |
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Purchase tickets at: The Shedd Ticket Office 541.434.7000
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