America!

West Side Music

Saturday 25th June 2022 - 8 pm - Abbaye de Reigny / Vermenton

From Duke Ellington to Samuel Barber, from Billy Joel to Steve Reich, this programme is a choral panorama full of energy, poetry and swing. The Ensemble Aedes’ renditions of great hits from West Side Story and Mary Poppins are made even greater by Jean-Michel Fournereau’s staging.

Leonard BernsteinWarm up (extract from Mass)
Leonard BernsteinThe Lark
Samuel BarberSure on this shining nightHeaven-HavenUnder the willow tree
Morten LauridsenSure on this shining night
Georges Gershwin3 Préludes (piano solo)
Steve ReichClapping music
Sherman BrothersMary Poppins (Chim-Chim Cher-ee / A spoonful of sugar / Feed the birds / Supercalifragilisticexplialidocious)
Moses Hogan, The Battle of Jericho
John CageStory
Eric WhitacreA boy and a girl
Leonard Bernstein, Extraits de West Side Story (America / Officer Krupke / Something’s coming / Tonight)
Billy Joel (arr. Bob Chilcott), And so it goes
Jerome Kern (arr. Ward Swingle), All the things you are
Duke Ellington / Irving Mills (arr. Deke Sharon), It don’t mean a thing

Ensemble Aedes
Yoan Héreau : piano
Mathieu Romano : conductor

Concert given as part of the event “Musicals”, organized by La Cité de la Voix de Vézelay

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