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2010 marks the centennial of Frank Loesser's birth. Loesser started out as a lyricist who used to write dummy
tunes to illustrate his words. He wrote lyrics in Hollywood for Hoagy Carmichael (Heart and Soul) and Jule Styne (I Don't Want to Walk Without You). In WW II he found his own musical voice with Praise The Lord and Pass the Ammunition (1942) and capped his long string of subsequent successes with an Academy Award for Baby, It's Cold Outside in 1948. Loesser's distinctive Broadway musicals, Where's Charley? (1948), Guys and Dolls (1950), The Most Happy Fella (1956), and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961) remain popular in revivals today.
Featuring:
Mara Bonde, soprano; David Ripley, bass-baritone; Dan Loschen, piano; Rich Appleman, bass; Bertram Lehmann, drums;
Joined by guests Tynan Davis, mezzo-soprano; Christopher King, tenor; Allen Bonde, piano; and Charlotte Kaufman, narrator.
Special appearance by the award-winning Lexington High Jazz Combo
If you are not "On a Slow Boat to China", don't leave us "Standin' On the Corner". "We Don't Want to Walk Without You". Come hear us, all you "Guys and Dolls".
Performed by the same group who thrilled you with We'll Meet Again - the Music of World War II; Jazz, An American Invention; I'll Be Seeing You; Shaking the Blues Away: The Music of Tin Pan Alley; Fly Me to the Moon, Thou Swell, Thou Witty, The Fabulous Fifties, Johnny Mercer's 100th Birthday Party, and Even More Fabulous 50s, all here at the NHM.
CD recordings of BMT programs will be available for sale at all performances.
Some of the fabulous songs you will hear: