Songbook Sundays, the concert series created and hosted by Deborah Grace Winer to celebrate the American Songbook, will continue April 6 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club with two performances celebrating the work of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
Entitled Isn’t It Rodgers and Hart?, performances are set for 5 PM and 7:30 PM. Interpreting the songs of the musical theatre giants will be Grammy winner Debby Boone ("You Light up My Life"), Nikki Renée Daniels (Once Upon a Mattress), and JALC rising young artist Charles Turner.
Music director Ted Rosenthal will lead a band that includes Noriko Ueda on bass, Tim Horner on drums, and Summer Camargo on trumpet.
Attendees can expect to hear such Rodgers and Hart classics as "I Could Write a Book," "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady Is a Tramp," "Falling in Love With Love," and more.
The songwriting team of Rodgers (music) and Hart (lyrics) penned the scores for A Connecticut Yankee, The Boys From Syracuse, On Your Toes, Babes in Arms, I Married an Angel, By Jupiter, and Pal Joey. Among their hundreds of songs are such titles as "Mountain Greenery," "Ten Cents a Dance," "Spring Is Here," "Isn't It Romantic?," "Blue Moon," "My Romance," "Little Girl Blue," "I Wish I Were in Love Again," "Where or When," "Johnny One Note," "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," and "There's a Small Hotel."
Songbook Sundays is now in its fourth year, after premiering in spring 2022 with Got Gershwin followed
by salutes to Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, Lerner and Loewe, Fats Waller, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Cy
Coleman, Frank Loesser, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy
Carmichael, and Jule Styne.
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