What a way to start the new year!
Sunday, January 15 - Pianist Richard Glazier in Concert 2:00 p.m.
"A Salute to the Hollywood Musical"
Tickets $20, seating is limited.
Advance tickets available at the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum Bookshop
Award winning pianist and master storyteller, Richard Glazier, takes his audiences on a very special tour of the movies in this fascinating program dedicated to the Hollywood Musical.
Glazier’s show combines interviews (with Academy Award recipients Mickey Rooney and Celeste Holm), back stage stories, movie trailers, and piano performances of the music of the great composers---Gershwin, Rodgers, Kern, Warren, Arlen, and more.
"A Salute to the Hollywood Musical"
Tickets $20, seating is limited.
Advance tickets available at the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum Bookshop
Award winning pianist and master storyteller, Richard Glazier, takes his audiences on a very special tour of the movies in this fascinating program dedicated to the Hollywood Musical.
Glazier’s show combines interviews (with Academy Award recipients Mickey Rooney and Celeste Holm), back stage stories, movie trailers, and piano performances of the music of the great composers---Gershwin, Rodgers, Kern, Warren, Arlen, and more.
Highlights of his program include a tribute to composer Harold Arlen with Glazier playing “Man That Got Away” over a kinescope of the 1954 premier of “A Star Is Born” at the Pantages Theater, and “Over The Rainbow” played over Harold Arlen’s home movies taken during the filming of “Wizard of Oz”.
Glazier also plays tribute to his friend Johnny Green, composer, conductor and 5-time Academy Award winning musical director of MGM. This tribute includes footage of Green conducting the MGM Jubilee Festival Overture, and includes Glazier’s performance of Green’s “Body and Soul”.
Glazier also honors his close friend, composer Hugh Martin, with stills, home movies, video clips and performances of Martin’s songs from MGM’s “Meet Me In St. Louis” and “Athena”.
Glazier’s tribute to Oscar Levant includes inside stories about the great pianist and actor, some of his most memorable quips, and concludes with a performance of Levant’s transcription of Sabre Dance (as Levant performed in MGM’s “Barkleys of Broadway”).
Other musical highlights include “An Affair to Remember”, Bronislaw Kaper’s theme from “Auntie Mame” and Gershwin’s “American in Paris”.
Glazier also plays tribute to his friend Johnny Green, composer, conductor and 5-time Academy Award winning musical director of MGM. This tribute includes footage of Green conducting the MGM Jubilee Festival Overture, and includes Glazier’s performance of Green’s “Body and Soul”.
Glazier also honors his close friend, composer Hugh Martin, with stills, home movies, video clips and performances of Martin’s songs from MGM’s “Meet Me In St. Louis” and “Athena”.
Glazier’s tribute to Oscar Levant includes inside stories about the great pianist and actor, some of his most memorable quips, and concludes with a performance of Levant’s transcription of Sabre Dance (as Levant performed in MGM’s “Barkleys of Broadway”).
Other musical highlights include “An Affair to Remember”, Bronislaw Kaper’s theme from “Auntie Mame” and Gershwin’s “American in Paris”.
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