Popular songs, dance music, and excerpts from musical revues; includes one art song and several instrumental arrangements of popular songs. Title from disc label. Bernadette Boerckel, soprano (tracks 5, 10, 14, 19-21), comedienne (track 17) ; Daniel Marcus, tenor (tracks 2, 5, 19, 21), comedian (tracks 12, 16) ; Edward Pleasant, baritone (tracks 3, 8, 21) ; Heather Hill, soprano (track 21) ; Thomas Carle, tenor (track 21) ; The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra (Caroline Chin, Bryony Stroud-Watson, violins ; Thomas Rosenthal, viola ; Jonathan Dexter, cello ; Troy Rinker, double bass ; Leslie Cullen, flute, piccolo ; Vasko Dukovski, clarinet ; Paul Murphy, Michael Blutman, cornet ; Michael Lormand, trombone ; Taylor Arthur Goodson, drums, percussion ; Diane Scott, piano) ; Rick Benjamin, conductor, piano (track 10). Recorded 2015 June 20-21 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City. "World-premiere recordings of original period orchestrations"--Container. Program notes by the conductor, biographical notes on the composer and performers, and discographical and bibliographical references (39 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Contents:
Overture to Watch Your Step -- Finale to Act II (2Opera Medley3) from Watch Your Step -- That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune -- The International Rag -- You'd Be Surprised -- Alexander's Ragtime Band' Everybody's Doin' It Now -- Play A Simple Melody -- I Love a Piano -- The Girls of My Dreams -- Smile and Show Your Dimple -- Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning! -- A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody -- When I Leave the World Behind -- Home Again Blues -- Tell Me, Little Gypsy -- Nobody Knows -- Say It With Music -- This Is The Life! -- My Melody Dream -- When I Lost You. With Bernadette Boerckel; Daniel Marcus; Edward Pleasant; Heather Hill; Thomas Carle; Paragon Ragtime Orchestra.
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