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Paris in the Jazz Age With Bob Moreen at the piano and Claudia Hommel sometimes on top of it, anything goes in gay Paree as American jazz hits the Seine in the "crazy years" between the wars. Songlist: Irving Berlin and compatriots: Alexander's Ragtime Band; International Rag; How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? Ragtime at the Music Hall: Erik Satie's La Diva de l'Empire; from Williams and Walker's "In Dahomey", I Wants to Be a Actor Lady Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake: I'm just wild about Harry, Shuffle along; I'm Just Simply Full of Jazz Josephine Baker: Aux Iles Hawaii; J'ai deux amours (Two Loves Have I) Bricktop: Insufficient Sweetie, Black Bottom, Charleston Cole Porter: Miss Otis Regrets; Let's Do It; Let's Misbehave; I'm in Love again; Paree, What Did You Do to Me Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguett: Mon homme/My Man (sound clip: wav, 390K, mp3, 425K); Louise; Valentine; Y'a d'la joie; Ca c'est Paris The "serious" composers Poulenc, Weill & Milhaud: Les Chemins de l'Amour, Hôtel, Mon Histoire, Je ne t'aime pas Louis Armstrong: Wild Man Blues; St. Louis Blues Changing times: Madame La Marquise (sound clip: wav, 384K, mp3, 418K); Last Time I saw Paris.; Je suis Swing (sound clip: wav, 335K, mp3, 364K) This show was commissioned and performed first for the Chicago Public Library's showing of the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit "The Jazz Age in Paris, 1914-1940". Subsequent performances include Le Chat Noir and the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans; the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA; the Mansfield Richland Public Library, OH and more.
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