[9:45] What city singers concert? What? One piano, four hands? Each of our songs is season, requires not just one

[9:54] player on the piano, but two for a total of four hands. Our director, Jay, and one of our

[10:02] companies, Mary, got us started with power and glory march with, onward Christian soldiers.

[10:08] There are second piece, was CSC and variations.

[10:13] You know what CS means?

[10:15] It doesn't mean I always think it means that author.

[10:20] CS Lewis?

[10:22] It means chopsticks like Dosh.

[10:25] CSC and variations give or take a hand.

[10:29] And Opus 6 by Randall Thompson and dedicated to Victor Borza.

[10:34] How many of you remember his genius piano playing?

[10:40] You'll learn a little bit more about Mary and her partner in digital dexterity Tammy, a little

[10:47] later in the program, but for now, sit back, relax, and let Mary and Tammy and the rest

[10:53] of the Summer City singers uplift and entertain you with an excellent and diverse program

[10:59] of well-known and loved American songs, some international folk music, and some songs new

[11:05] you that you may not have heard before, and we even throw in some Christmas music.

[11:16] Jubilee is a singing game, a dance tune sung by the dancers for their own accompaniment,

[11:23] without instruments in the manner of many children's games. Jubilee is a real lines of

[11:29] dancers, as a face each other, while couples, reeling with whirlwind elbow, swing down

[11:36] length. The lines join in a big circle for the chorus verse. It's down along the old rail road,

[11:44] as each couple ends the reel. Hey, did you hear I once was addicted to the hokey pokey?

[11:53] I was, but I turned myself around.

[15:41] Celebration of Unity and Love of Country. In November 1861, a woman named Julia Ward-How, and her husband visited Washington, DC. While there, how, a published poet, her union troops felting out a well-known marching song called John Brown's Body. After the famous abolitionist John Brown, a preacher standing with how,

[16:11] encouraged her to write new lyrics to the tune.

[16:15] In February of 1862, she sold her poem,

[16:20] The Battle Him of the Republic,

[16:22] to the Atlantic Monthly, a well-known magazine for $5.

[16:28] The Atlantic Monthly is still published today

[16:31] under the name of the Atlantic.

[21:02] Is a traditional folk song sung in the Americas

[21:05] of Uncertain origin dating to the early 19th century.

[21:11] Shen and Noah was a celebrated native American chief in our history,

[21:16] and several towns in the United States are named after him.

[21:21] This boatman song found his way down the Mississippi River

[21:24] to the American clipper ships and thus around the world.

[21:29] The song had become popular as a sea shanty with sea fairy sailors,

[21:33] say that three times faster. By the mid 1800s, I had a river joke, but I forgot it.

[21:41] Oh well, I guess it's water under the bridge.

[27:32] By the English composer George Radcliffe Woodward, and the carol was first published in 1924. Charles Woodharmonize the tune.

[27:43] Did you hear I wrote a movie? I wrote a movie about a male sheep and his son enjoying a hostess pastry.

[27:53] I call it Ramon Lamodin don't.

[32:04] That has touched thousands of musicians and their audiences with his warmth and sincerity.

[32:11] And it has also become an anthem for soldiers returning home from war.

[32:16] This song clearly has a one-of-a-kind melody which captures the ear.

[32:22] But what else is it that causes this song to touch people so deeply?

[32:26] When authors write our musicians compose, they usually do so with some experience in mind.

[32:35] But once they release that piece to the world, they know that the myriad of interpretations

[32:40] and reflections will bounce back to them as different minds and lives encountered their work.

[32:47] The Summit City Singers tackle Mark McWallberg's first rate arrangement originally written

[32:54] for the Tabernacle Choir.

[38:24] She was a junior in high school. She earned a bachelor of music degree in organ performance and a VA degree from Ohio-Western University and had additional studies at

[38:36] University of Michigan, interlocking arts academy and the Oberlin Summer Organ Institute. She served as an

[38:48] Early in Indianapolis, but also in Michigan and Ohio churches.

[38:54] She has provided me piano music for many special events, including receptions, for the

[38:59] Democratic Governor's Association, Governor Evan Vi, and several IU Alumni Association.

[39:07] Mary is currently the accompanist for the festival choir and the Summit City Singers.

[39:13] Entered this in addition to her music activities, Mary worked as an accountant and office manager for several organizations and also helped rescue and re-home dozens of dogs and cats in the Indianapolis area.

[39:28] She also loves ancestry research and has worked on family trees for her family and friends.

[39:33] couple of fun facts about Mary. She won the Groundhog Day Coloring Contest in High School in Ohio.

[39:43] And her choir at Gassimney Lutheran in Indianapolis called her Sister Mary because she was so strict with them.

[39:53] We just call her Scary Mary, but not when she can hear her.

[40:04] The entertainer is a 1902 classic piano rag written by Scott Joplin.

[40:10] The first recording was by the blue boys in 1928, played on Mandolin and guitar.

[40:18] You may recognize this music from the 1973 Oscar-winning film, The Sting.

[40:25] Marvin Hamlish won an Academy Award for his adaptation.

[40:28] In the words of music magazine, Record World, it was the classical phenomenon of the decade.

[40:37] Hey, Mary, why is a piano so hard to open?

[40:41] Because the keys are in the inside

[43:34] is the music director and organist at Trinity of that

[43:37] Trinity, Evangelical Lutheran Church here in Fort Wayne.

[43:41] She is also a board member of the Courts of Woodhurst Neighborhood Association.

[43:45] And she enjoys visiting Fort Wayne Parks with her three grandchildren.

[43:51] A fun fact about Tim.

[43:53] She wants one second place in a flaming fire baton twirling contest.

[44:00] Well, here you go, Tammy. Show us what you got.

[44:04] Well, well, wait a minute. Probably shouldn't be lighting flaming batons.

[44:16] Whoever, Moon River as a song composed by Henry Madzini, with lyrics by Johnny Marcer.

[44:24] It was originally performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film, Breakfast at Tiffany's,

[44:31] winning an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

[44:35] After a Tepid Los Angeles preview, Paramount Pictures considered removing the song.

[44:41] People described Hepburn's reaction in varying degrees from her saying,

[44:46] over my dead body, to her using more colorful language.

[44:51] While we wouldn't even consider cutting Mary and Tammy's version,

[44:55] we hope they wouldn't have anything colorful to say if we did.

[44:59] Hey, Tammy!

[45:01] Where to pin is going vacation?

[45:05] No, the Florida key.

[47:19] I practiced seven times together. Isn't that amazing? Well, we, as a choir, would like to show our appreciation to both Mary and Tammy. So we have a little something.

[47:43] It would be up the river without a paddle, nod to Moon River, without Jay, to help us along with rehearsals and corrections and so on.

[47:52] patients. Very much patients.

[48:04] That's the best part of being a choir member. I get to

[48:06] hand out presents.

[48:10] To Hari Nui is a New England folk song, which translates to

[48:16] glad tidings of great joy. The Reverend Samuel Marsden was the first person in

[48:22] New Zealand to preach. Did I even say that right? To Hari Nui is a New Zealand

[48:27] Folks, don't I say that?

[48:29] Yeah.

[48:30] I was like, I don't think I said that right.

[48:33] Sorry.

[48:33] It's been a long day.

[48:38] To Howard and Newy is a New Zealand folk song which translate to glad tidings of great joy.

[48:45] The Reverend Samuel Marisen was the first person in New Zealand to preach the Christian

[48:50] Gospel at the Bay of Islands on Christmas Day in 1814.

[48:56] His sermon was based on Luke's text, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

[49:07] Reverend Marsen became much revered by the Mayari and was noted for his protection of them against the incursion of settlers,

[49:16] and for his encouragement of missionaries to continue this policy.

[49:28] So, did you all notice that when she announced that entitled the song, she said,

[49:31] hey, hottie?

[49:32] But that kind of little flipped arthing?

[49:36] English not so much, but in many other languages, a word changes depending on how

[49:40] you pronounce it?

[49:42] In this case, if you say, hey, hottie, newie, you say glad tidings of great joy.

[49:47] If you say, hey, hurry, newie.

[49:50] Without flipping the r, you're singing about great sin.

[49:54] So we're going to think about the great joy today.

[53:08] Simple gifts. It's a shaker song written and proposed in 1848. It's attributed to Elder Joseph Brackett from the Alfred shaker village.

[53:20] It became widely known when air in Copeland used its melody for the score of Martha Graham's ballet Appellation Spring, which premiered in 1944.

[53:31] This American classic is sent soaring in this joyful and energetic arrangement that tugs

[53:38] at the heart and thrills the soul.

[53:42] Several shaker manuscripts indicate this is a dancing song.

[53:46] When the traditional dances performed, each dancer ends up where they started because

[53:52] they have come round right.

[53:55] It has to be thinking about there once was a restaurant owner who would regularly go into

[54:01] the restaurant across the street to mess with this competitor's head.

[54:06] He started out small, changing the salt and the salt shakers for sugar, and progressively

[54:11] more substantial.

[54:13] Eventually the competing restaurant tricks the restaurant owner caught on as to who was

[54:19] playing the tricks.

[54:20] The tricks they were discovered this one day when he came to the front door of his own restaurant,

[54:27] and a note was posted on the front door reading, see how you like it.

[54:32] As he walked inside and saw that all the furniture had been flipped, it appeared the tables have turned.

[54:41] Or

[58:48] did Fiddler William Hamilton Steps playing Bona Parts Retreat?

[58:53] This recording became a touchstone in American culture, and it was inducted in 2016

[58:59] into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.

[59:03] Steps version of the song was used as a major component of Aaron Copeland's orchestral

[59:09] composition, ho-down from the ballet rodeo.

[59:12] It has also received use in television and film, including the American TV ad campaign,

[59:20] Beef.

[59:21] It's what's for dinner.

[59:23] Speaking of hold-downs, did you hear about the Cowboy's favorite subject in school?

[59:29] No, no.

[59:31] It's math!

[59:32] They just love rounding!

[1:04:10] Thank you for our director, Jay. We didn't wave as arms to death, I don't know what it

[1:04:21] is.

[1:04:21] It's a nonprofit organization whose object is to promote music, expand the performance ability of musicians, and to perform for gatherings in and around the community.

[1:04:33] As a nonprofit, we are incredibly appreciative of any donation we receive.

[1:04:38] One new piece of music can cost anywhere from $120 to $200.

[1:04:44] If you're able to dare, there we buckets at the exits.

[1:04:48] So please, thank you so much for coming.

[1:04:50] We really appreciate it.

[1:04:51] I have a wonderful afternoon, Jay.

[1:04:55] Yes, thanks again.

[1:04:56] I just wanted to say, when I first proposed one piano forehands,

[1:05:00] some of these things as board was not so convinced.

[1:05:04] Took some tips and talking into,

[1:05:07] but with too much marvelous accompanist over here.

[1:05:12] in addition to coming to every rehearsal which Mary did for us. Mary's our rehearsal

[1:05:17] coming as well. And then Tammy came to several additional rehearsals. They spent hours

[1:05:22] outside practicing these songs so that they could play them for us. And I am truly

[1:05:27] appreciative of you too especially. The choir's amazing. They're awesome. They know how much

[1:05:32] I appreciate them. I tell them all the time. I try to, anyway. But I don't often get to say that

[1:05:37] to the two of companies, I appreciate you guys

[1:05:39] and your musical ability and making this a very, very fun

[1:05:43] concert, very fun and fantastic.

[1:05:46] Thank you so much.

[1:05:48] And back on Lights and Sound, I think, is David?

[1:05:51] Is that right?

[1:05:53] It's done.

[1:05:54] Yeah.

[1:05:55] OK, I didn't want to nod and acknowledge them back there.

[1:05:58] Back on Lights and Sound and video,

[1:06:00] taking all of that pleasure, I hope you take that.

[1:06:05] And we appreciate the library making their space

[1:06:07] like this free to non-profit organizations to come and just give fun concerts on a Sunday afternoon

[1:06:13] when you could be out doing lots of other things, we appreciate you. There are a ton of snacks

[1:06:17] if you didn't say them when you came in, there's sweet stuff and salty stuff and savory stuff,

[1:06:24] go out and help yourself to anything you find out well in the food you find out there. Thanks again.

Summit City Singers - One Piano, Four Hands June 8th, 2025

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