UCL CHAMBER MUSIC CLUB
Honorary President: Professor Malcolm Grant
Friday 23rd November 2012
1.10pm-1.50pm
Haldane Room, Wilkins Building, Main Campus
Lunchtime Concert
VERSIONS OF GERSHWIN
Arrangements and transcriptions of the music of
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
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Songs arranged for piano by Gershwin:
The man I love (from Lady, Be Good!, 1924)
Do it again (from the play The French Doll, 1922)
Do – do – do (from Oh, Kay!, 1926)
Who cares? (from Of Thee I Sing, 1931)
Songs arranged for piano by Michael Finnissy (b. 1946):
A foggy day (from the film A Damsel in Distress, 1937)
But not for me (from Girl Crazy, 1930)
Songs from the opera Porgy and Bess (1935) arranged for violin and piano by
Jascha Heifetz (1901-87):
Summertime – A woman is a sometime thing
It ain’t necessarily so
Bess, you is my woman now
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Bronwen Evans – violin
Roger Beeson – piano
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Entry is free and open to all. The next concert will take place on Thursday 6th December
at 5.30 pm (in the Haldane Room): this will feature the Tadige Singers. Also don’t forget
our Grand Christmas Spectacular on Tuesday 11th December (6.00 pm in the North
Cloisters): music for choir and renaissance band by Gabrieli, Monteverdi and Beeson –
with drinks and mince-pies to follow!
For full details of the Chamber Music Club’s activities and to apply for membership
please visit: www.ucl.ac.uk/chamber-music