Time/Date
11-13-2009 2:00 PM
Abstract
Dr. Haydon will look at America's Golden Age of Popular Music with a sampling of songs from some of the great songwriters and lyricists of the 1920's, 30's, 40's and 50's. Selections will include but not be limited to Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart/Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer. We will look at how singers use both the music and lyric to interpret these songs. Then we will discuss how jazz musicians have adopted the same repertoire using it as a vehicle for their own creative aspirations.
Singers and Jazz Instrumentalists As Interpreters of the Popular Song
Dr. Haydon will look at America's Golden Age of Popular Music with a sampling of songs from some of the great songwriters and lyricists of the 1920's, 30's, 40's and 50's. Selections will include but not be limited to Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart/Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer. We will look at how singers use both the music and lyric to interpret these songs. Then we will discuss how jazz musicians have adopted the same repertoire using it as a vehicle for their own creative aspirations.
Comments
Presented in the Second Plenary Session: Influence and Interpretation of Popular Music
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