Was bummed out to hear that John won’t be doing Britten’s The Turn of the Screw at Wilton’s Music Hall in London this month so to cheer everybody up, here’s the FULL 2-HOUR PROGRAM of my John and The John Wilson Orchestra at the Proms, 2013. That’s Jane Monheit, John, and Matt Ford below.
- 20th Century Fox Fanfare (from the studio, 1933) / Alfred Newman
- Street Scene (from the 1931 film; Sam Goldwyn/United Artists) / Alfred Newman
- “Confetti” (from Forever, Darling; MGM, 1956) / Bronislaw Kaper
- Laura (suite; from the 1944 film; 20th Century Fox, 1944) / David Raksin
- Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra (from the 1960 film; Paramount) / Bernard Herrmann
- Salammbo’s Aria (from Citizen Kane; RKO, 1941) / Bernard Herrmann (with Russian soprano Venera Gimadieva)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (from the 1938 film; Warner Bros) / Erich Korngold
- 25-MINUTE INTERVAL In which my beloved John, at 41 years old back in 2013, pours out his hopes and dreams.
- The Big Country (from the 1958 film; United Artists) / Jerome Moross
- Casablanca (suite from the film; Warner Bros, 1942) / Max Steiner, Schneckenburger, Wilhelm, de Lisle, Herman Hupfeld
- SONG MEDLEY:
– “An Affair to Remember” (from the 1957 film; 20th Century Fox) / Harry Warren, Leo McCarey (the film’s director), Harold Damson
– “Something’s Gotta Give” (from Daddy Long Legs; 20th Century Fox, 1955) / Johnny Mercer
– “Young at Heart” (from the 1955 film; Warner Bros) / Johnny Richards, Carolyn Leigh
– “It’s Magic” (from Romance On the High Seas; Warner Bros, 1948) / Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
– “The Tender Trap” (from the 1955 film; MGM) / Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
– “My Foolish Heart” (from the 1949 film; Samuel Goldwyn/RKO) / Ned Washington, Victor Young
– “Three Coins in the Fountain” (from the 1954 film; 20th Century Fox) / Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn
– “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing” (from the 1955 film; 20th Century Fox) / Sammy Fain, Paul Francis Webster
– “That’s Amore” (from The Caddy; Paramount, 1953) / Harry Warren, Jack Brooks
– “Que Sera, Sera” (from The Man Who Knew Too Much; Paramount, 1956 / Jay Livingston, Ray Evans
– “All the Way” (from The Joker is Wild, 1957; Paramount) / Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn - A Place In the Sun (suite from the 1951 film; Paramount) / Franz Waxman
- Tom and Jerry (from the MGM cartoons; 1940-58) / Scott Bradley
- Ben-Hur (suite from the film; MGM, 1959) / Miklós Rózsa
Above Jeanette: That’s the 1932 Victor recording above of Chevalier singing “
And dig that not-too-obvious Eros aiming his love arrow at Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier. That’s the great Ella Fitzgerald singing above the lovers.
