Happy Birthday Julie Andrews
Evening Music | May 6, 2010
After the BBC/WNYC Music Party, it’s time to wind down with a little Symphonic Jazz, plus a birthday tribute to Dame Julie Andrews.
George Antheil was following in the footsteps of George Gershwin when he wrote his “Jazz Symphony” for Paul Whiteman’s second “Experiment in Modern Music” program in 1925 (the first “experiment” produced Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”). That particular concert didn’t take place, but the symphony - a veritable melting pot of styles fused into a jazzy mix – did get a hearing at Carnegie Hall that same year to great enthusiasm from the audience. We’ll enjoy our own enthusiastic presentation from the New Palais Royale Orchestra under Maurice Peress.
Also, it’s hard to believe that the ever-buoyant Dame Julie Andrews has been entertaining people for nearly 60 years (she made her debut at age 12). Today she turns 70 years young, and Evening Music celebrates with selections from the Broadway cast recording of one of Dame Julie’s stage roles, that of Eliza Doolittle in Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady.”
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George Antheil was following in the footsteps of George Gershwin when he wrote his “Jazz Symphony” for Paul Whiteman’s second “Experiment in Modern Music” program in 1925 (the first “experiment” produced Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue”). That particular concert didn’t take place, but the symphony - a veritable melting pot of styles fused into a jazzy mix – did get a hearing at Carnegie Hall that same year to great enthusiasm from the audience. We’ll enjoy our own enthusiastic presentation from the New Palais Royale Orchestra under Maurice Peress.
Also, it’s hard to believe that the ever-buoyant Dame Julie Andrews has been entertaining people for nearly 60 years (she made her debut at age 12). Today she turns 70 years young, and Evening Music celebrates with selections from the Broadway cast recording of one of Dame Julie’s stage roles, that of Eliza Doolittle in Lerner and Loewe’s “My Fair Lady.”
» Music Party
