Transcript At the Woodchopper`s Ball

Woodchopper’s Ball
"Woodchopper's Ball", also known as "At the
Woodchopper's Ball" is a
1939 jazz composition by Joe
Bishop and Woody Herman. The uptempo blues tune was the Woody Herman
Orchestra's biggest hit, as well as the most
popular composition of either composer,
selling a million records.[
My Funny Valentine
"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from
the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz
Hart musical Babes in Arms in which it was
introduced by former child star Mitzi Green.
The song became a popular jazz standard,
appearing on over 1300 albums performed by
over 600 artists, including Chet Baker, Bill
Evans, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Ella
Fitzgerald, Andy Williams, Shirley
Bassey, Miles Davis, Nico, Elvis Costello
and Chaka Khan.
Watermelon Man
"Watermelon Man" is a jazz standard written
by Herbie Hancock, first released on his
debut album, Takin' Off (1962).
First version was released as a grooving hard
bop and featured improvisations by Freddie
Hubbard and Dexter Gordon. A single of the
tune reached the Top 100 of the pop charts.
Watermelon Man
Cuban percussionist Mongo
Santamaría released the tune as a Latin
pop single the next year on Battle Records,
where it became a surprise hit, reaching #10
on the pop charts. Santamaría's recording
was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame
in 1998. Hancock radically re-worked the
tune, combining elements of funk, for the
album Head Hunters (1973).
A Day in the Life of a Fool
"Manhã de Carnaval" ("Morning of
Carnival"), is the most popular song by
Brazilian composer Luiz Bonfá and
lyricist Antônio Maria.
Manhã de Carnaval appeared as a principal
theme in the 1959 Portuguese-language
film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) by French
director Marcel Camus, with a soundtrack
that also included a number of memorable
songs by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius
de Moraes, as well as another composition by
Bonfá (Samba de Orfeu).
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Manhã de Carnaval appears in multiple
scenes in the film, including versions sung or
hummed by both the principal characters
(Orfeu and Euridice), as well as an
instrumental version, so that the song has
been described as the "main" musical theme
of the film. In the portion of the film in which
the song is sung by the character Orfeu,
portrayed by Breno Mello, the song was
dubbed by Agostinho dos Santos.
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The song was initially rejected for inclusion in
the film by Camus, but Bonfá was able to
convince the director that the music
for Manhã de Carnaval was superior to the
song Bonfá composed as a
replacement. Orfeu Negro was an
international success (winning, for example,
an Academy Award in 1960), and brought the
song to a large audience.
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Manhã de Carnaval became one of the first
compositions identified with Bossa Nova to
gain popularity outside Brazil. Particularly in
the United States, the song is considered to
be one of the most important Brazilian
Jazz/Bossa songs that helped establish
the Bossa Nova movement in the late 1950s.
Manhã de Carnaval has become a jazz
standard in the USA, while it is still
performed regularly by a wide variety of
musicians around the world in its vocalized
version or just as an instrumental one.
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In the United States, the song is also known
as "A Day in the Life of a Fool", "Carnival",
"Theme from Black Orpheus", or simply
"Black Orpheus". In France, the song is also
known as "La Chanson d'Orphée". The song is
also known by the Spanish title "Mañana de
Carnaval". All versions of foreign texts were
written by lyricists other than Antônio Maria,
using Bonfá's original music.
The Greatest American Hero
The Greatest American Hero is an
American comedy-drama television series
that aired for three seasons
from 1981 to 1983 on ABC.Created by
producer Stephen J. Cannell, it premiered as
a two-hour pilot movie on March 18,
1981. The series features William Katt as
teacher Ralph Hinkley ("Hanley" for the latter
part of the first season), Robert Culp as FBI
agent Bill Maxwell, and Connie Sellecca as
lawyer Pam Davidson.
The Greatest American Hero
The series chronicles Ralph's adventures after
a group of aliens gives him a red suit that
gives him superhuman abilities.
Unfortunately for Ralph, who hates wearing
the suit, he immediately loses its instruction
booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its
powers by trial and error, often with comical
results.
Li’l Darlin
Li'l Darlin' is a 1957 jazz standard, composed
by trumpeter Neal Hefti for the Count Basie
Orchestra.After lyrics were added by Jon
Hendricks, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
recorded it with Basie in 1958. When Basie's
orchestra performed it live on the Judy
Garland Show in 1959, Mel Torme sang,
and Ella Fitzgerald also recorded the song
with the orchestra for her 1971 album
Artistic Ethics
I will respect my
audience regardless of
size or station.
Artistic Ethics
The Show Must Go On!
I will never miss a
performance.
Artistic Ethics
I shall play every
performance to the
best of my ability,
regardless of how
small my role or large
my personal problems.
Artistic Ethics
I shall never miss an
entrance by my failure
to be ready.
Artistic Ethics
I shall forego all social
activities which
interfere with
rehearsals and always
be on time.
Artistic Ethics
I shall never leave until
I have completed my
performance.
Artistic Ethics
I shall accept the
director’s advice in the
spirit in which it is given
for he sees the
production as a whole
and my role as a portion
thereof.
Artistic Ethics
I shall respect the music
and the composer,
remembering that “A work
of art is not a work of art
until it is finished.”
Artistic Ethics
I shall direct my efforts in
such a manner that when I
leave this organization it
will stand as a greater
institution for my having
labored there.