Strings & Singers
Commissioned by the New Century Chamber Orchestra
George Gershwin
- SUMMERTIME (Strings + Soprano & SABT)
- IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO (Strings + SABT)
- THERE’S A BOAT DAT’S LEAVING SOON FOR NEW YORK (Strings + SABT)
- I’VE GOT RHYTHM (Strings + SABT)
- EMBRACEABLE YOU (Strings + SABT)
- STRIKE UP THE BAND (Strings + SABT)
Ellington & Strayhorn
AVAILABLE TITLES:
ELLINGTON & STRAYHORN
Lush Life
East St. St. Louis Toodle-doo
Take the A Train
It don’t mean a thing
KURT WEILL
Mack the knife Fantasy
COLE PORTER
Consisting of just eight measures – some basic chords backing its eminently whistleable tune – “Mack the Knife” is a kind of blank slate that gets written over and layered into a ten-minute fantasy in the arrangement by Clarice Assad, a frequent collaborator with NCCO. Here and on her other arrangements for “Atlantic Crossing,” Assad hints at the ongoing role played by cross-connections among musical innovators in our own time. Salerno-Sonnenberg calls Assad “probably the greatest arranger alive today. She’s the only one I can think of who could write these kinds of arrangements. Older composers would not have had the experiences available to her generation, and her background growing up in Brazil has given her a vast scope of knowledge of musical styles; all this variety of music lives inside of her.
Night & Day
From this moment on
GEORG FRIEDRICH HANDEL
From the Messiah
• From Unto Us A Child Is Born
• Hallelujah
CHARLES GOUNOD
O Divine Redeemer