Festival Highlights.Byline: The Register-Guard Tunes such as "S'Wonderful," "Lady Be Good," "I Got Rhythm" and Hyman's blues-oriented version of "Rhapsody in Blue
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Gershwin's interest in Broadway musicals will be demonstrated through two full-scale stage productions: the recently revised musical "Crazy for You" with an adult cast, opening Saturday, and a youth version of the original "Lady, Be Good," opening Aug. 6; both shows will have three performances To show how Gershwin's music can be made to fit different musical styles, swing versions of his tunes will be played Aug. 8 during the festival's annual dance, featuring Dick Hyman's All-Stars and the Emerald City Jazz Kings Gershwin's ventures into more serious compositions will be displayed by conductor James Paul and the American Symphonia on Aug. 9; the Overture to "Girl Crazy," Three Preludes, Concerto in F and "A Symphonic Portrait of Gershwin's Porgy porgy (pôr`gē), common name for members of the Sparidae, a family of small-mouthed fishes with strong teeth adapted for crushing their food of shellfish and crustaceans. and Bess" will feature award-winning pianist William Wolfram wolfram: see tungsten. "Rhapsody in Blue" will be featured in the festival closer, Aug. 10 at Cuthbert Amphitheater, but not the famous orchestral version; instead, Wolfram and Paul will team up to do the original, jazz-tinged version that Paul Whiteman made popular; the program also includes small-band, Dixieland versions of songs from "Porgy and Bess" that Bob Haggart arranged for Bob Crosby's Bobcats, all played by Hyman and friends In the afternoon Heritage Concert series, small combos will massage even more Gershwin material: Hyman and Smith will kick things off on Friday with two-piano versions of Gershwin's hits; the series also includes a program of rarely heard Gershwin tunes (`Jazzbo Brown," "Lullaby," "Rialto Rialto, city (1990 pop. 72,388), San Bernardino co., S Calif., a residential suburb of San Bernardino; inc. 1911. The city has greatly expanded as a result of the economic and demographic growth of the southern California area. Ripples," "Just Another Rhumba," etc.) on Saturday; Hyman's smooth jazz Gershwin arrangements on Aug. 8; cornetist Randy Sandke playing Gershwin in the manner of Bix Beiderbecke on Aug. 9; and the Northwest Advanced String Camp and members of the American Symphonia playing works by Gershwin and his contemporaries Antonin Dvorak, David Diamond and Ralph Vaughan Williams Noun 1. Ralph Vaughan Williams - English composer influenced by folk tunes and music of the Tudor period (1872-1958) Vaughan Williams on Aug. 10 Besides playing Gershwin's music, lecturers Stephen Stone, Jack Powell, John Attig, Keith Campbell, Ian Whitcomb, Carl Woideck, Sue Neimoyer and James Ralph will talk about it Gershwin's favorite artist, Vasily Kandinsky, will be the subject of the annual "Music Throu' the Eye" dinner-lecture program on Aug. 5; Kandinsky's "Composition 8' is the festival's poster art this season Sixteen festival events - five afternoon Heritage concerts and one evening concert (Aug. 2), five lectures and five films - will be held in the 850-seat Concert Hall and the 125-seat Meeting Hall at the new John G. Shedd John Graves Shedd (July 20, 1850 - October 22, 1926) was the second president and chairman of the board of Marshall Field & Company. Born on a New Hampshire farm, Shedd arrived in Chicago, Illinois in 1871 and began working as a stock clerk for Marshall Field. Institute for the Arts, the former First Baptist Church First Baptist Church may refer to many churches: Canada
n. A casual gathering for group singing. and Summer SongFest will be at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Guitar Camp at festival headquarters and Northwest Advanced String Camp at the UO School of Music. Tickets - ranging in price from $14 to $57.50 - are available through the Hult Center box office, 682-5000 - The Register-Guard |
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