You want classics? You got’ ‘em! The UW-Green Bay, Manitowoc Campus Lakeshore Big Band will present its spring concert at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at the Capitol Civic Centre. “Nothing But the Classics,” and will be a celebration of songs and artists from the Big Band Era. The show will include instrumentals as well as a variety of vocals with local favorites David Bourgeois and Kim Hofmann, and a special vocal featuring conductor Sucherman.
Sucherman says, “Nothing But the Classics” is two sets of definitive Big Band repertoire of classic songs and classic arrangements from Miller to Goodman and beyond. The first half of the concert includes favorites by Ellington, Gray and Miller including Satin Doll, Pennsylvania 6-5000 and A String of Pearls. The second set will feature one of the most famous songs from the Big Band era, the Benny Goodman classic Sing, Sing, Sing as well as the jazz standard, Lullaby of Birdland.
Vocals will include selections by legendary artists Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. Kim Hofmann is eager to share her renditions of Blue Skies and Orange Colored Sky and Bourgeois his versions of When I Fall in Love and I Get a Kick Out of You. Hofmann and Bourgeois will sing back up for Sucherman for his interpretation of the 1922 The Sheik of Araby from the movie “Tin Pan Alley.”
Following the concert, the audience is invited to a reception in the Capitol Civic Centre’s Mertens Family Lobby/Kadow Movie Museum to meet the conductor, vocalists and members of the UW-Green Bay, Manitowoc Campus Lakeshore Big Band.
Tickets for “Nothing But the Classics” are available at the Capitol Civic Centre Box Office, $16 for adult tickets and $9 for students and all balcony seating. These prices do not include the $2 per ticket Capitol Civic Centre preservation fee. For further ticket information, call the CCC Box Office at 683-2184.
