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SONGS IN SUMMERTIME

8 A CAPELLA VOICES - THE GOLDEN AGE OF BROADWAY MUSIC

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SONGS IN SUMMERTIME

8 A CAPELLA VOICES - THE GOLDEN AGE OF BROADWAY MUSIC

Light, shimmering melodies remembered from the silver screen, swaying rhythms from jazz and negro spirituals... This delightful a cappella program puts the spotlight on Broadway!

Rediscover live the alchemy of Blues, Gospel, Jazz and Classical music from the 7th art, for which talented composers signed scores that marked the hopes and dreams of a youth aspiring to an ideal world!


This program of a cappella music highlights famous composers from the golden age of American popular music, whose birthplace was Broadway, with light, shimmering melodies and rhythms influenced by negro spirituals and jazz.


Some of these melodies found a large audience thanks to the cinema, while others went around the world thanks to their universal appeal. Their popularity has left a lasting impression.


Numerous talented 20th-century arrangers have adapted these standards for 8 solo voices; their knowledge of polyphonic art, rich in writing techniques, makes them veritable “plastic artists” of vocal music.

 

PROGRAMME


The Continental (Conrad/ David Blackwell)

Summer Time (Georges Gershwin/Roderick Williams)

Tea for two (Vincent Youmans/Peter Gritton)

I got Rhythm (Georges Gershwin/Christopher Clapham)

Let's do it (Cole Porter/ David Blackwell)

Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen/Guy Turner)

Smoke gets in your eyes (Jérôme Kern/ David Blackwell)

Autumn leaves (Joseph Cosma /Andrew Carter)

Night and day (Cole Porter/ Andrew Carter)

Swing low, swing chariot (Wallace Willis/Peter Knight)

The water is wide (Ballade écossaise/Philip Lawson)

Blue Moon (Richard Rodgers/David Blackwell)

A participatory singing workshop and public rehearsal is possible during the day.


The project was conceived in 2020 as a response to the health crisis, with a spatialized, sound-based proposal for the public space. It has been performed in parks and on tour from the Parc de la Villette in Bobigny to a floating stage (barge) on the Canal de l'Ourcq, in partnership with the Eté du Canal for a traveling concert for the public on the banks of the river.

Possibility of performing outdoors in the public space > in this case, the ensemble can propose an adapted sound system, the budget for which is to be added according to the chosen formula (possibility of being totally autonomous).
Technical requirements: large audience space, electrical access and dressing room/sanitary facilities.