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“Rat Pack Reboot”
■ Tonight’s program
■ From the music director
■ KSO roster
■ Performer profiles
■ Program notes
■ Sponsored musician chair
■ Community Circle
■ Acknowlegements & KSO staff
■ Our summer concerts
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James R. Cassidy, Music Director7:30 P.M. Saturday, May 15, 2021 James Cassidy, conductorNewport Car Barn, Mickey James, Dan Radank, Newport, Ky. Corey Tucker, vocalists
“Rat Pack Reboot”Words, music by
“Jumpin’ at the Woodside” Count Basie, Eddie Durham“Come Fly With Me” * Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen“You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You” Larry Stock, Russ Morgan“The Lady Is a Tramp” Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers“The Way You Look Tonight” * Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kerns“What Kind of Fool am I” * Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse“Ain’t That a Kick in the Head” Cahn, Van Heusen“Fly Me to the Moon” Bart Howard“Birth of the Blues” Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson “Luck Be A Lady” * Frank Loesser
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“The Candy Man”* Newley, Bricusse“Everybody Loves Somebody” * Sam Coslow, Ken Lane“That’s Life” Dean Kay, Kelly Gordon“It was a Very Good Year” * Ervin Drake“Intermission Riff” Ray Wetzel“That’s Amore” * Jack Brooks, Harry Warren“Begin the Beguine” Cole Porter“I’ve Got You Under My Skin” ” ” .“On the Street Where You Live” Alan Lerner, Frederick LoeweTheme from New York, New York * Fred Ebb, John Kander
* arrangements adapted by Terry LaBolt
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TOPnostalgia: (n.) a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past,typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.Greetings, pallies,
I figured a little nostalgia was just what the doctor orderedto close out the KSO’s 29th season – our “season of distance”.The multitalented entertainers of a couple generations backalways offered clean fun, with charisma, an unmistakableswagger, and, of course, great tunes. For nearly four decades,Frank, Dean, and Sammy brought glitz and glamour to theVegas strip as well as to local stages across the nation together
and by themselves. The Rat Pack made you smile, chuckle, and marvel at theirrespective vocal deliveries and styles. We hope you enjoy our tribute to thesewonderful crooner-entertainers from a nostalgic venue — the Newport Car Barn.
I hope you dig tonight’s clambake. Then join us for even more amazing nostalgicmusic this summer. The KSO’s free 27th Summer Series is expanding to two nightsand two parks for each program — 7:30 p.m. Saturdays in Covington’s Devou Parkand 7:30 Sundays in Ft. Thomas’s Tower Park.
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ViolinsManami White,
The Gloria Goering Memorial Chair
Sujean KimJacquline FennellThomas Consolo
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Evan HurleyLuke Coan
ViolasPeter GorakLynn Pofffenberger
’CellosTom Guth
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ReedsRick Van MatreDwayne IrvinGarin WebbBen WalkenhauerPaul Glader
French HornMichelle Hembree
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TromboneJason BranscumJett WalkerMarc FieldsJosh Omaits
RhythmPhil DeGreg, keyboard
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Brian Deyo, guitarMike Sharfe, bassJim Leslie, drumsBrian Malone, percussion
HarpJoseph Rebman
PROFILES
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James R. CassidyThe Kentucky Symphony Orchestra’s founder, music director, and executive
director brings more than four decades of professional experience as an educator, artsadministrator, and conductor to the organization. Under his leadership, the KSO in 28years has grown 35-fold in budget, launched free summer and education concert series,and expanded the orchestra’s range of musical offerings by developing severalsubsidiary groups specializing in various musical genres, including jazz, pop, rock,country, and R&B. Cassidy and the KSO are now recognized around the globe forcrafting unique and engaging thematic programs, premieres, and collaborations.
A Florida native, Cassidy was previously music director of the Florida BalletTheatre, Tampa Chamber Symphony, and Tampa Bay Youth Orchestra. He hasconducted for the Florida and St. Petersburg opera companies, and he led the worldpremiere production of Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story for CincinnatiOpera.
Cassidy earned degrees from the University of South Florida and the University ofCincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. He lives in Newport with his wife,Angela, son, Devlin, and dog, Seamus.
Mickey James ◆ Dean MartinCincinnati native Mickey James is a vocalist, dancer, entertainer,
and the owner-manager of Mickey James Entertainment. He performsregularly in the Tristate with his six-piece band, Mickey James & theQueen City Crew. Mickey started singing as a child, and around 2005he got his start with jazz and standards when he was hired as a vocal-ist by the PMC Big Band. Since then, he has performed with manyfantastic bands including the Johnny Mack Big Band, the Jump N’Jive Big Band, Swingtime Big Band, and the Monday Night BigBand. He’s thrilled to be performing with the KSO.
Dan Radank ◆ Frank SinatraDan Radank was born on St Patrick’s Day (his mother’s birthday, too) and music
was the first thing he heard. He was in the limelight from day one as local televisionnews was on hand to tape his mother, Patty, sing “Danny Boy” to him on their birthday.When Dan was born, his father, Tom, was a professional jazz trumpet player in Milwau-kee. No surprise that, by age 11, Dan was ready to pick up an instrument – the trumpet.
The family later moved to Northern Kentucky, and Dan excelledin band, participating as a high school student in the All-State JazzBand and the Governor’s School for the Arts. He received a scholar-ship to the University of Louisville, where he played in several jazzensembles. Dan left school to play professionally, joining Bobby Jand the Flying Martinis. For four years they were atop the Louisvillejazz scene, playing classics from the Great American Songbook. Danfound his voice emulating the great crooners, and his musician friendsencouraged him to sing professionally.
In 2007, Dan moved back to Cincinnati. He can be heard hear him headlining withthe bands Powerhouse, the Bluewater Kings, and the Chairman of the Board Orchestra.
Old Green Eyes (as he was dubbed) has over 800 songs in his repertoire.
Corey Tucker ◆ Sammy Davis, Jr.Tennessee native Corey Tucker moved to Cincinnati at an early
age. He spent most of his early years performing in church andschool, singing and directing choirs, leading the church band, andhelping other artists find their voice. Corey uses music and perform-ance to relate to and unite people.
The music that influenced him the most was blues, classic soul,R&B and gospel. He remains drawn to the music’s realness, grit, andpassion with which he identifies. “It is the authenticity in the wordsand music that brings us together,” Corey contends.
Corey studied music at Ohio State University, where he continued to sing in choirsand write songs, and where he realized that he wanted to be a performer. After graduat-ing, he began working in the corporate world while building a preproduction studio tohone his sound and skills. Corey knows his way around the business, whether playinginstruments, composing and arranging, or recording. He has appeared at Taste ofCincinnati and Oktoberfest, opened for Blessid Union of Souls, performs regularly withthe Ultra Sonics, and made his debut with the KSO Boogie Band in September. ■
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The Rat Pack
I t’s been more than half a century sinceAmericans were enthralled by a group of
five entertainers that embodied the prosper-ity, glitz, and energy of the United Statesafter World War II. They were known fortheir freewheeling attitude and swagger, butthey also were immensely gifted performers– some in more than one genre – and, likemany bands of brothers, they deeply re-spected each other’s talents. They wereknown as the Rat Pack.
The term was one they had neithercoined nor liked. It can be traced (as muchas such a generic term could) to the party -going, boredom-fighting circle in orbitaround Humphrey Bogart: Lauren Bacall isalleged to have commented that the crew, onreturning from a night on the town, lookedlike a pack of rats. That Holmby Hills RatPack (named for the Los Angeles neighbor-hood where Bogart and Bacall lived) in-cluded a big band crooner who had turned toacting after his singing career had apparentlypeaked – Frank Sinatra.
By 1957, Bogart died of cancer, andSinatra was in the midst of one of entertain-ment’s greatest comebacks. He won anOscar as an actor, and his recordings, made
at Capitol with arranger Nelson Riddle, es-tablished him as the greatest living song in-terpreter. Around him, a new Rat Packcoalesced. It included fellow singer-actorsSammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin, Englishactor (and brother-in-law to soon-to-be Pres-ident John F. Kennedy) Peter Lawford, andcomedian Joey Bishop.
While their individual talents were inar-guably prodigious, it was their charismaticpersonalities that really connected them withthe public. No surprise, then, that the settingthat most epitomizes our image of them isLas Vegas, and particularly the Copa Roomat the Sands Hotel. They always wore atuxedo on stage and could almost always beseen balancing a cocktail and cigarette. Foran entire generation of postwar America,they embodied cool.
Both on stage and off, the Rat Packersgenuinely enjoyed each others’ company,and they often made impromptu appearancesat each others’ performances. (The Sandsmarquee once famously read, “Dean Martin,Maybe Frank, Maybe Sammy.”) In somecombination, they made 20 films together,although all five appeared in just two, in-cluding Ocean’s 11.
Despite rock ’n’ roll, the British inva-Four of the fiveoriginal membersof the Frank Sintra-led Rat Packas they are oftenseen – in formalclothes, high spir-its, and smoking.Pictured, from left,are Peter Lawford,Dean Martin,Sammy Davis Jr.,and Sinatra.
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“I have to say I owe my career to the master composers of the Great American Songbook who have written such high-quality songs –
the best popular music ever composed.”— TONY BENNETT
sion, and the social changes sparked by theVietnam War, the careers of Davis, Martin,and Sinatra continued to thrive through the1960s, including success on television. Sina-tra attempted to launch a reunion tour withthe three in 1987, but it faltered. Though allthree have been dead for more than 20 years,their influence continues through an enor-mous audio and video legacy. Sinatra’s al-bums with Riddle, in particular, remain thegold standard both for vocal expression andinstrumental support. No popular solo singertoday is immune from their influence.
Great American Songbook
I t’s an old music school joke to tell fresh-men they have to buy a copy of the Great
American Songbook. It can’t be found in astore, though, either in person or online. It’sthe collective name of America’s most im-portant, influential, and enduring songswritten in a golden age between approxi-mately 1920 and 1950. They encompass themusical genius of a who’s who of U.S.composers and lyricists. Those includeHarold Arlen, Irving Berlin, Cy Coleman,Lorenz Hart, Ray Henderson, Johnny Mer-cer, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and a fewdozen more legendary names.
After initial success as pop tunes of theirday, in Broadway shows, or in movies, thesesongs survive today as “standards” and con-tinue to constitute the heart of the canon forjazz singers. They’ve also been embraced bysuch later pop artists as Linda Ronstadt,Ringo Starr, and Rod Stewart. To many lis-teners, however, the greatest exponents of theGreat American Songbook were the artists ofthe transitional period of the 1950s and1960s. Those were led – aside from Davis,Martin, and Sinatra – by Tony Bennett andBobby Darin (interestingly, both Italians likeMartin and Sinatra), and, from the jazz world,
by Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald.Tonight’s program offers a sampling of
20 pieces as heard in their most famousrecordings, almost all by one of the larger-than-life members of the Rat Pack.
“Jumpin’ at the Woodside” was releasedby Count Basie just before Christmas in1938. It rose to No. 11 on the Billboard chartand became one of the Basie band’s signa-ture tunes. The name refers to the Harlemhotel where many prominent Black enter-tainers and athletes stayed in New York.
“Come Fly With Me,” was written forSinatra in 1958 as the title track of an albumwhose 12 tracks evoked exotic locales.
“You’re Nobody Till Somebody LovesYou” was a hit for Russ Morgan in 1946, butit’s most famous for the second of DeanMartin’s recordings of it, for Sinatra’sReprise label in 1964.
“The Lady is a Tramp” is a show tunefrom 1937’s Babes in Arms that skewers so-cial mores of the day. It’s received manygreat performances, including Sinatra, ofcourse, but tonight’s is inspired by Davis’slive performance at the Sands in 1963.
“The Way You Look Tonight,” from theFred Astaire-Ginger Rogers comedy SwingTime, won the 1936 Oscar for Best OriginalSong. Astaire’s recording hit No. 1, but Sina-tra’s, from 1964, is now the best-known.
Davis had a hit with “What Kind of FoolAm I?” in 1962, the year the showstopperfrom Stop the World – I Want to Get Off waspublished. As sung by Anthony Newley, itwon the 1963 Grammy for Song of the Year.It was also the title track of a show-themedalbum that included “Begin the Beguine,”written in 1935 and included in that year’sJubilee on Broadway.
Several recordings of “Fly Me to theMoon” were made before Sinatra’s 1964track on It Might As Well Be Swing, arranged
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“Ain’t That a Kick in the Head” waswritten in 1960 especially for Ocean’s 11.
“Birth of the Blues” was written forGeorge White’s Scandals of 1926, a Broad-way revue. Bing Crosby recorded it for the1941 movie of the same name. All the RatPack-ers performed the song, but Davismade it a specialty.
Sinatra lost the role he wanted in thefilm version of 1950’s Guys and Dolls toMarlon Brando, but he went on to record thedefinitive take of “Luck Be a Lady” for a1963 Broadway-themed Reprise album.
“The Candy Man,” released in 1972,was Davis’s only No. 1 hit – despite his dis-like for the song, which was written for thefilm Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
In 1964, Martin’s version of “EverybodyLoves Somebody” knocked the Beatles’ “AHard Day’s Night” off as the No. 1 U.S. song.That also beat Sinatra’s 1948 recording ofthe 1947 song, which topped out at No. 25.
“That’s Life” was three years old whenSinatra heard it, decided to record it, andmade it the title track of his 1966 album. Itwas a huge hit and a de facto credo for theRat Pack crew.
Before joining the Rat Pack, Martin
spent a decade as half of the country’s mostpopular comedy team. He and Jerry Lewismade more than a dozen films together, in-cluding 1953’s The Caddy. Included in itssoundtrack was “That’s Amore,” which roseto No. 2 on the charts.
Sinatra earned a Grammy for Best MaleVocal Performance and a No. 1 hit for “ItWas a Very Good Year,” a track on 1965’sSeptember of My Years. The hauntingarrangement was by Gordon Jenkins.
Stan Kenton performed “IntermissionRiff” from the mid-1940s with his ArtistryIn Rhythm orchestra until 1978.
“I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” sung(by a female character) in Born to Dance,was nominated for the Best Original SongOscar in 1936. Sinatra first performed it in1946, and the classic driven, swinging, mas-culine Riddle arrangement was included in1956’s Songs for Swingin’ Lovers.
Martin, too, collaborated with Riddle,including on 1960’s This Time I’m Swingin’.It included My Fair Lady’s “On the StreetWhere You Live,” written in 1956.
Written for Martin Scorsese’s 1977 filmNew York, New York, the theme song be-came a hit when Sinatra included it on his1980 album, Trilogy. It then became Sina-tra’s theme song, too.■
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Michelle Hembree ◆ The Don & Sue Corken ChairMichelle Hembree has been the KSO’s principal hornist since 2017.
She is an associate member of the Columbus (Ohio) SymphonyOrchestra and a substitute in the New World Symphony. For the 2019-20 season, she served as acting principal of the Fort WaynePhilharmonic. Michelle has appeared as a soloist with the KSO, SevenHills Sinfonietta, and Meridian Symphony, and she also has performedwith the Knoxville Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, and Cincinnati
Chamber orchestras, and with the Boise Philharmonic. Michelle earned a bachelor’s degree in horn performance from the University of
Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Randy Gardnerand Denise Tryon. She is a 2017 Yamaha Young Performing Artist and CCM KempHorn Scholar of her class. She has won the Three Arts Scholarship Fund’s NeffScholarship, CCM Undergraduate Instrumentalist competition, YoungArts Merit award,and Andrew Howell Memorial competition. Michelle also completed a bachelor’sdegree in industrial management from UC’s Lindner College of Business.
A native of Boise, Idaho, Michelle’s interest in music began at age 5, when shestarted playing violin. She discovered the horn at age 10. Outside of music, Michelleenjoys skiing, hiking, and traveling.
The KSO provides our community a rich and vibrant cultural commodity with thewide variety of music it performs. The Corkens are happy to support Michelle in honorof the French horn, the instrument their granddaughter played in band. ■
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AcknowledgementsThe KSO would like to thank the following for their assistance:
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