Just a thought

Sample of music I got to play in two days of musical theatre grad school:

• Rock’n’Roll (the retro kind): Jerry Lee Lewis, The Platters, Carole King, Connie Francis, the Coasters, the Righteous Brothers, on and on…one song each for 20+ people [Vocal Coaching class]

• The Secret Garden [Preparing for next semester’s show]

• All the Things You Are (Kern and Hammerstein), Right Hand Man (Karey and Wayne Kirkpatrick), Manhattan Bridge (Salman and Cunningham), It Might As Well Be Spring (Rodgers and Hammerstein); Just the Way You Are (Billy Joel) [Private voice lessons]

• Stars and the Moon and I Can Do Better Than That (JRB); Larger Than Life and The Neva Flows (Ahrens and Flaherty); Welcome Home Finale (Oberacker and Taylor); Before He Cheats (Carrie Underwood); The House That Built Me (Miranda Lambert) [Sight-reading for Story Song unit]

• You’d Be Surprised and The Song Is Ended (But the Melody Lingers On) (Irving Berlin) [Sight-reading for Musical Theatre Special Topics]

• 42nd Street [Dance Rehearsal]

• Conducted Brahms’ Haydn Variations [Orchestral Conducting class]

• Rehearsed the Credo from Beethoven’s Mass in C [Choral Conducting class]

• Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra, mvmt. 2 [Score Reading class]

• Excerpts from Mozart’s Die Zauberflote [Recording piano tracks for company in Las Vegas]

• Chopin Rag (Peter Howard); Ain’t I Good to You (Razaf and Redman , in Bullets Over Broadway); Requiem (Pasek and Paul) [Personal practice]

I’m lovin’ it.