Sat 1/29 @ 7:30PM
The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Musical Theater Project have joined forces to celebrate an early 20th center “Great American Songbook” composer/lyricist team who may be the most beloved of all of them: the Gershwin Brothers, George and Ira.
The former composed the music, the latter wrote the lyrics, for more than two dozen film and stage scores (including the Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire film Shall We Dance, and Porgy and Bess), for songs such as “I Got Rhythm,” “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” “‘S Wonderful,” “Shall We Dance,” “The Man I Love” and “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.”
Sadly, George died of a brain tumor in 1937 at the age of 38, but Ira continued to work, collaborating with people such as Harry Warren, Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill and Harold Arlen until his death in 1983 at the age of 86.
They’ll have plenty of material to choose from for their concert “The Gershwins on Boradway” at the Maltz Performing Arts Center in University Circle. The Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, led by artistic director Paul Ferguson, with be joined by the Joe Hunter Trio and vocalists Treva Offutt and Evelyn Wright.
Tickets are $20 & $45. Go here to get them.