AMERICAN CLASSICS ANNOUNCES 2009-2010 SEASON
Pardon My Southern Accent - Songs by Johnny Mercer. A hundredth birthday celebration of one of America’s most beloved songwriters.
Friday, November 13, 2009 at 7:30pm, Follen Community Church, 755 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, Massachusetts
Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 7:30pm, Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
I’ll Take Manhattan. A salute to America’s most famous island in music and song.
Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 7:30pm, Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 3:00pm, Follen Community Church, 755 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, Massachusetts
Yip! Yip! Yaphank! A concert performance of Irving Berlin’s World War I soldier show, in its first modern revival.
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 7:30pm, Follen Community Church, 755 Massachusetts Avenue, Lexington, Massachusetts
Sunday, April 18 at 3:00pm, Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Tickets: $20, $15 for students/seniors.
Both venues are wheelchair accessible
2009 marks the one
hundredth birthday of Johnny Mercer, beloved lyricist of
Blues in the Night,
Dream,
Hooray for Hollywood,
Satin Doll,
Autumn Leaves,
Moon River,
Come Rain or Come Shine, and
Jeepers Creepers, to name
but a small number of his many hits, written with composers Harold
Arlen, Harry Warren, Henry Mancini, and Duke Ellington, and others.
Performances are November 13 at Follen Community Church in Lexington and
November 14 at the Pickman Concert Hall of the Longy School of Music in
Cambridge. Featured performers are American Classics regulars Mary Ann
Lanier, Valerie Anastasio, and Heather Peterson, with Robert
Humphreville on piano.
New York’s Manhattan Island has been the subject of music song throughout its history. American Classics will give a musical tour from the Henry Hudson Bridge to the Battery with many stops in between on March 6, 2010 at the Pickman Concert Hall of the Longy School of Music and March 7, 2010 at the Follen Community Church.
In 1918 Irving Berlin contributed to the war cause with his all-soldier revue Yip! Yip! Yaphank! Since closing at the end of war, the show has not been revived. American Classics brings back the show as part of their on-going series of revivals of early Irving Berlin shows, and just in time for the Massachusetts April 19 Patriots Day holiday! Shows are Friday, April 16, 2010 at Follen Community Church, and Sunday, April 18 at the Pickman Concert Hall of the Longy School of Music.
For further information about this exciting season, contact American Classics at 617-254-1125 or ac@amclass.org. Be sure to visit our website, www.amclass.org.
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