Lecture Concert IV. The Birth of American Music [Gongju]

Showtimes

Tuesday (11:00)

Cast

Han Dong-woon, Kim Kyung-hee, Song Kwan-sup, Chung Yu-ha, Ha Ji-wook

Synopsis

[Performance Introduction] The Birth of American Music This performance explores the formation and history of American music through jazz. It introduces the process from the energy of the early swing and big band eras to Broadway and Hollywood music establishing itself as jazz standards. Subsequently, it conveys the charm of "singing jazz" through the stories of artists who fully captured the personal and lyrical appeal of vocal jazz from the 1950s and 60s. [PROGRAM] <The Birth of Jazz and the Swing Era> Duke Ellington - It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) <The Golden Age of Standards> Irving Berlin - Cheek to Cheek Ella Fitzgerald & Van Alexander - A-Tisket, A-Tasket George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin - They Can’t Take That Away From Me Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II - My Favorite Things <The Essence of Vocal Jazz> Erroll Garner - Misty Morgan Lewis & Nancy Hamilton - How High the Moon Bart Howard - Fly Me to the Moon Joseph Joseph Kosma - Autumn Leaves *The above program is subject to change due to circumstances with the cast.

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