Classic Film Review, Minnelli's Cab... Sep 19, 2009
The talented cast showcased songs written by Vernon Duke (music) and John Latouche (lyrics) for the Broadway production ( Cabin in the Sky, Honey in the Honeycomb, and Taking a Chance on Love ) as well as three new songs added by Harold Arlen (music) and E. Y. Harburg (lyrics), including the Oscar-nominated Happiness is a Thing Called Joe and bouncy Life s Full O Consequence. Special moments in Cabin in the Sky. (Suite101.com)
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Harbison takes a jazz turn Sep 16, 2009
When Harbison introduced surveys of composers like Harold Arlen, Count Basie, and Hoagy Carmichael into the Token Creek repertoire in 2003, I had the apparently over-enthusiastic belief that there would be a lot of crossover in the audience. In fact a small percentage goes to both. (Boston Globe)
Tierney Sutton continues spiritual, musical journey Aug 28, 2009
Artfully sustaining rhythmic tension, she transforms Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg s teasing standard with mantralike repetition of the line without your love, turning a song usually delivered at a heedless gallop into a meditative expression of yearning for faith in the face of illusory appearances. I never sing the line It s a honky-tonk parade, said Sutton, 46, after a recent, headlining performance at the San Jose Jazz Festival. (Boston Globe)
Bennett, Brubeck First Gig in Together in 50 Years Aug 14, 2009
"We decided to do a Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer song called `That Old Black Magic,'" said Bennett in an interview Sunday. "Harold Arlen is my favorite composer through the years ... It's one of the great jazz songs of all time.". (Newsmax)
Tony Bennett, Dave Brubeck spin magic again Aug 12, 2009
"We decided to do a Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer song called 'That Old Black Magic," said Bennett, in an interview in his trailer backstage Sunday. "Harold Arlen is my favorite composer through the years ... It's one of the great jazz songs of all time.". (The Star Online, Malaysia)
• Expect classical theater and exotic dance from Arts on Tour season Jul 24, 2009
Lippia brings to life the music and lyrics of composers like Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen and Rodgers and Hart. His repertoire includes such standards as "I've Got You Under My Skin," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Mack the Knife," "Just the Way You Are" and "That's Life." Learn more. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Dramatic opening Jul 9, 2009
He has always been a one-off talent and his work has often invited comparison with the likes of Cole Porter or Harold Arlen as much as with his contemporaries. Does that mean the shift to writing for the stage has been straightforward. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
13 of Johnny Mercer’s most memorable songs Jun 28, 2009
Fred Astaire introduced it, but Sinatra now so thoroughly owns the song even Mercer and Harold Arlen, the composer, can hardly claim it. OUT OF THIS WORLD, Tony Bennett ( Jazz, 1987). (Boston Globe)
Johnny Mercer is the overlooked great American songwriter Jun 28, 2009
His collaborators included some of the biggest names in Tin Pan Alley history: Kern, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael, Harry Warren, Jimmy Van Heusen. But Mercer never had a longstanding partner, as did George Gershwin with his brother Ira or Richard Rodgers with Lorenz Hart, then Oscar Hammerstein II.. (Boston Globe)
• McGovern draws on classics for next weekend's Sun Valley concert Jun 26, 2009
"Touting the classics is nothing new for McGovern. In the 1980s she helped lead the revival of interest in George Gershwin with sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall and an album dubbed "the quintessential Gershwin CD" by The New York Times.And in the 1990s she released songbooks of Harold Arlen, who wrote "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," and Marilyn and Alan Bergman, who wrote the scores for "Yentl," "The Way We Were" and other hits."I'm a champion of the Great American Songbook, the songs of the... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Links to other featured weather-related tunes Jun 17, 2009
by Harold Arlen 5/10/06. by The Beatles 5/3/06. (USA Today -- Weather)
Concert features Siouxland Master Chorale Jun 16, 2009
In addition, the band will perform the Finale of Symphony No. 6 by Tchaikovsky, Satchmo -- a Tribute to Louis Armstrong, A Tribute to Harold Arlen, and music from the soundtrack of Witches of Eastwick, "Dance of the Witches" by John Williams. The popular audience sing-a-long, led by bandshell host Dave Madsen, will include "For Dad's a Jolly Good Fellow" and "I Want A Girl.". (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Dance review: Smuin Ballet opens spring season May 13, 2009
The company also premiered a suite of dances from Smuin's last story ballet, "St Louis Woman: A Blues Ballet," which he choreographed in 2003 for Dance Theatre of Harlem to music from Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer's 1946 musical of the same title. The results are mixed. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
American Idol Recap Top 5 Apr 29, 2009
Danny Gokey Come Rain or Come Shine by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. Danny really knows how to pace a song, and he worked the crowd perfectly with this one; just when everyone was wondering if he was going to crank it up at the end and thought it might not happen, Danny dropped the throttle. (Suite101.com)
WCFSO to play Wizard of Oz soundtrack to full-length film Apr 13, 2009
The full orchestra, conducted by Music Director Jason Weinberger, will play entirely new transcriptions of Harold Arlen s lost scores ... Clips from Harold Arlens home videos are the only clips of the scene available to the public. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
