NCCO presents Americans in Paris featuring Chanticleer
Albert & Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center
3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto, CA 94303 USA
8:00 PM, Friday, March 17, 2017

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• George Gershwin: An American in Paris Suite
• Igor Stravinsky: Apollon musagète
• Gabriel Fauré: Pavane
• Erik Satie: Gymnopédies
• Ned Rorem: Four Madrigals
• Songs of Piaf, Gershwin, Dearie, Baker

New Century Chamber Orchestra:

• Gershwin (arr. Clarice Assad): Suite from An American in Paris
• Stravinsky: Apollon Musagète
• Erik Satie (arr. Gerard Schwarz): Gymnopédie No. 1
• Roussel: Allegro from Sinfonietta for String Orchestra

Chanticleer:

• Ravel: Trois Chansons
• Saint-Saëns: Serenade d’Hiver
• Various (arr. Evan Price): Four Cabaret Songs

New Century Chamber Orchestra & Chanticleer:

• Fauré: Pavane
• Various (arr. Clarice Assad): French Medley
• Gershwin / Porter (arr. Clarice Assad): Medley

[8:01 PM lights down, NCCO out]

1. [8:03 PM] Erik Satie (1866-1925): Gymnopédie No. 1, (1888), arr. Gerard Schwarz (b. 1947), Lent et douloureux
2. [8:06 PM] Albert Roussel (1869-1937): Allegro, third and final movement from Sinfonietta for String Orchestra, Op. 52 (1934)
   [8:09 PM, pause for Chanticleer to enter, NCCO lays out over next segment]
   Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Trois Chansons, (1914-15)
3. [8:10 PM] Nicolette. Allegro moderato
4. [8:12 PM] Trois beaux Oiseaux du Paradis. Moderato
5. [8:14 PM] Ronde. Allegro
   [8:16 PM pause for Chanticleer to move offstage]
6. [8:17 PM] Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971): Prologue: The Birth of Apollo, from the Ballet, Apollon Musagète (1928)
   [8:22 PM pause for Chanticleer to return, assembling at stage left]
7. [8:23 PM] Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Pavane, Op. 50 (1887), arr. William Fred Scott
   [8:29 PM pause]
8. [8:29 PM] Camile Saint-Saëns (1835-1921): Sérénade d'hiver for male chorus (1867)
   [8:35 PM pause]
   Medley of Tunes arranged by Clarice Assad
9. [8:36 PM] Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924): Musetta's Waltz from La Bohème (1895)
10. [8:40 PM] Cole Porter (1891-1964): I Love Paris (1953)
11. [8:42 PM] Hubert Giraud (1920-2016): Sous Le Ciel de Paris (Under the Sky of Paris) (1950)
12. [8:45 PM] Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880): Galop infernal (Infernal Gallop) from Act Two, Scene Two of Orphée aux enfers (Orpheus in the Underworld) (1858)
    [set ends 8:47 PM]

[9:09 PM lights down, Chanticleer out]
 
Four cabaret songs arranged for Chanticleer by Evan Price

1. [9:10 PM] Murray Grand (1919-2007): Comment allez-vous (How Are You?) (as sung by Blossom Dearie in 1959)
2. [9:14 PM] Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (1899-1963): Les Chemins de l'amour (the Pathways of Love) (as premiered by Yvonne Printemps in 1940)
3. [9:18 PM] Édith Piaf (1915-1963): La Vie en Rose (Life Through Rose-Tinted Glasses) (1945)
4. [9:21 PM] J'ai Deux Amours (Two Loves Have I) (as sung by Josephine Baker)
   [9:25 PM, pause for Chanticleer to exit and NCCO to enter]
    
   George Gershwin (1898-1937): Suite from An American in Paris, (1928), arr. Clarice Assad (2xxx)
5. [9:27 PM] Allegretto grazioso »
6. [9:m PM] Andante ma con ritmo deciso »
7. [9:m PM] Allegro »
8. [9:m PM] Moderato con grazia »
9. [9:m PM] Grandioso
   [suite ends 9:45 pm; applause, then pause for Chanticleer to return]
10. [9:47 PM] Gershwin: I Got Rhythm
11. [9:51 PM] Gershwin: Embraceable You (1928)
12. [9:54 PM] Porter: Night and Day (1932)
13. [9:56 PM] Porter: From This Moment On (1951)
14. [9:59 PM] Gershwin: Strike Up the Band! (1927)
    [set ends 10:02 PM]
     
    Encore
15. [10:03 PM] Gershwin: Strike Up the Band!
    [show ends 10:05 PM]

New Century Chamber Orchestra

• Erik Higgins: acting principal contrabass;
• Hrabba Atladottir: violin;
• Robin Bonnell: cello;
• Michelle Djokic: acting principal cello;
• Jenny Douglass: viola;
• Jory Fankuchen: second violin;
• Eric Gaenslen: cello;
• Dawn Harms: violin, associate concertmaster;
• Anna Kruger: principal viola;
• Meredith Kufchak: viola;
• Isaac Melamed: cello;
• Kayo Miki: second violin;
• Evan Price: second violin;
• Deborah Tien Price: second violin;
• Jeremy Preston: violin;
• Cassandra Lynne Richburg: viola;
• Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg: music director, violin;
• Karen Shinozaki Sor: violin;
• Iris Stone: violin;

• Eric Alatorre: bass vox;
• Chris Albanese: tenor vox;
• Brian Hinman: tenor vox;
• Matthew Knickman: baritone vox;
• Cortez Mitchell: countertenor vox;
• Gerrod Pagenkopf: countertenor vox;
• Kory Reid: countertenor vox;
• Alan Reinhardt: countertenor vox;
• Marques Jerrell Ruff: bass-baritone vox;
• William Fred Scott: music director;
• Logan S Shields: countertenor vox;
• Andrew Van Allsburg: tenor vox;
• Adam Ward: alto vox.

Jessica Balik posted a review of the following night's gig at Herbst Theatre for SFCV.

Georgia Rowe posted a review of the previous night's show for the Mercury News.

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