THE NAT KING COLE SONGBOOK
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Thursday, October 10, 2019, 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, October 11, 2019, 8 pm
Saturday, October 12, 2019, 8 pm
Sunday, October 13, 2019, 3 pm
Jack Everly, conductor
Denzal Sinclaire, vocalist
Denzal Sinclaire Sings The Nat King Cole Songbook
Rube Bloom & Johnny Mercer*
“Day In, Day Out”
Roy Turk & Fred Ahlert* “Walking My Baby Back Home”
Jay Livingston & Ray Evans*
“Mona Lisa”
Eden Ahbez* “Nature Boy”
Bobby Troup*
“Route 66”
Charlie Chaplin, John Turner & Geoffrey Parsons
“Smile”
Joe Sherman & Noel Sherman*
“To the Ends of the Earth”
Nat King Cole & Irving Mills
“Straighten Up and Fly Right”
Victor Young & Edward Heyman* “When I Fall in Love”
Bert Kaempfert & Milt Gabler*
“L-O-V-E”
INTERMISSION
Duke Ellington & Mills “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It
Ain’t Got That Swing)”
Ellington, Billy Strayhorn & Mercer “Satin Doll”
Trad. arr. Sinclaire “Amazing Grace”
Michael Kiwanuka* “I’m Getting Ready”
Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford and Phil Collins*
“Follow You Follow Me”
Arthur Schwartz & Howard Dietz* “You and the Night and
the Music”
Johnny Christopher, Mark James & Wayne Carson* “Always on My Mind”
Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson
“This is My Lucky Day”
Harold Arlen & Ted Koehler*
“I’ve Got the World on a String”
*Arranged by Jeff Tyzik
The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end at approximately
10 pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 5 pm on Sunday.
PRESENTING SPONSOR:
SUPPORTING SPONSOR:
OFFICIAL AIRLINE OF THE BSO:
The appearance of vocalist Denzal Sinclaire is made possible through the major
support of the Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Guest Artist Fund.
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About the Artists
Jack Everly
Jack Everly is the
Principal Pops
Conductor of the
Indianapolis and
Baltimore symphony
orchestras, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra
and the National Arts Centre Orchestra
(Ottawa). He has conducted the Los
Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood
Bowl, the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall,
the San Francisco Symphony and appears
regularly with the Cleveland Orchestra at
Blossom Music Center. Everly conducts
over 90 performances in more than
22 North American cities this season.
As Music Director of the National
Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol
Fourth on PBS, Everly proudly leads the
National Symphony Orchestra in these
patriotic celebrations on the West Lawn
of the U.S. Capitol. These concerts attract
hundreds of thousands of attendees, and
the broadcasts reach millions of viewers
and represent some of the highest-rated
programming on PBS.
Everly is also the Music Director of the
Duke Energy Yuletide Celebration, an over
30-year tradition. He led the ISO in its
first pops recording, Yuletide Celebration,
Volume One, which included three of his
own orchestrations. Other recordings
include In The Presence, featuring the Czech
Philharmonic and Daniel Rodriguez; Sandi
Patty’s Broadway Stories; the soundtrack to
Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame;
and Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The
Complete Overtures Of Jule Styne.
Originally appointed by Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Everly was conductor of
the American Ballet Theatre for 14 years,
where he served as Music Director. In
addition to his ABT tenure, he teamed
with Marvin Hamlisch on Broadway shows
that Hamlisch scored. He conducted Carol
Channing many times in Hello, Dolly! in
two separate Broadway productions.
Everly, a graduate of the Jacobs School of
Music at Indiana University, is a recipient
of the 2015 Indiana Historical Society
Living Legends Award and holds an
Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Franklin