The Eastern Wind Symphony present a program of 20th century works for winds, including Vincent Persichetti’s Serenade, op. 85 and Joaquin Rodrigo’s first work for winds, the 1966 Adagio. +The Eastern Wind Symphony’s professional members are accomplished and talented musicians who volunteer their time and talents to present the best in wind symphony repertoire. +Artistic Director Todd Nichols and Assistant Conductor Adam Warshafsky currently guide the ensemble.
Inner City: Songs by Helen Miller, lyrics by Eve Merriam, story by Lawrence Kasha, Joseph Kipness and Tom O'Horgan.
Linda Hopkins, Tony Award 1971 for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
Masterworks Broadway describes Inner City as "the musical that rocked Broadway with its distinctly untraditional take on modern urban life." The raucous 1971 show was conceived and staged by Hair director Tom O’Horgan the same season he directed the Broadway premiere of Jesus Christ Superstar. Based on Eve Merriam’s best-selling book The Inner City Mother Goose, it recounts children’s tales with a contemporary urban vibe and has a lively, R&B-influenced score by Helen Miller and lyricist Eve Merriam. Inner City introduced Linda Hopkins, who took home a Tony as Best Featured Actress in a Musical, along with Delores Hall, Larry Marshall, and Allan Nichols. Historic note: one of the production’s associate producers was Harvey Milk, before he left New York for San Francisco.
Featured songs: 1. Fee Fi Fo Fum/Now I Lay Me 2. Hushaby/My Mother Said 3. Nub of the Nation 4. Urban Mary/City Life/One Misty Moisty Morning 5. If Wishes Were Horses 6. Deep in the Night 7. Jeremiah Obadiah/Riddle Song 8. Shadow of the Sun 9. Boys and Girls Come Out to Play/Lucy Locket/Wisdom/The Hooker (“You Make It Your Way”) 10. Law and Order 11. The Dealer (“You Push It Your Way”) 12. Kindness/As I Went Over/Apartment House/There Was a Little Man/Who Killed Nobody? 13. It’s My Belief 14. Street Sermon 15. The Great If/On This Rock/The Great If (Reprise)
Note: The absence of audio in the left channel for eight seconds at the beginning of Track 10 ("Law and Order") has been retained from the original LP and cassette masters of this recording.
Vinyl LP pressing. Blue Note Tone Poet series. Herbie Nichols was one of the most original pianists and composers in Jazz history. Blue Note founder Alfred Lion considered him to be as unique and important a voice as Thelonious Monk, another singular talent who Lion was the first to record a few years before he signed Nichols in 1955. Little-known during his lifetime, recognition has begun to grow in recent decades for Nichols' incredibly hip, angular compositions, each of which were miniature marvels built with their own sturdy inner logic. Following his introduction on the two 10" LPs The Prophetic Herbie Nichols, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2., Nichols returned to Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack, New Jersey studio in August 1955 with drummer Max Roach and bassist Al McKibbon-and again in April 1956 with Roach and bassist Teddy Kotick-for sessions that produced Herbie Nichols Trio (BLP 1519). This 12" LP was another collection of idiosyncratic Nichols originals including "The Gig," "House Party Starting," "Wildflower," and perhaps his best-known composition "Lady Sings the Blues" which was written for Billie Holiday.
