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Featuring
the Latest News in Toni Tennille's Versatile Career !!
- plus...Canine
News - All About Toni & Her Special Aussies (dogs)
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December 10, 2011
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Date:
FEB. ?, 2012
A
TT, POPS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GALA CONCERT
is officially 'in the works'. Tonis local,
& very-successful concert, performed
last summer ('10) has inspired Toni to perform
once again in the Prescott, AZ area around
the 2nd week of Feb, 2010..
Tickets should be available by April, 2011.
Read more...
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Announcement Date:
Mar. 27, 2011
Yes
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ORCHESTRA POPS CONCERT is officially scheduled
for around the 2nd week of Feb. (around Valentine's
Day..) Feb 12-ish, 2012.
Toni's local, & very-successful BIG
BAND CONCERT, performed last summer ('10) has
inspired Toni to perform once again in the, beautiful,
local theatre on the Yavapai College campus: THE
YAVAPAI
COLLEGE PERFORMANCE HALL. - located in the city
of Prescott, AZ
Tickets should be available by April 1, 2011.
Read more below..
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Yavapai
College Performance Hall
1100 East Sheldon St.
Prescott, AZ 86301
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Tickets will go on sale Monday, April, 2011.
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All Ticket prices: are $20 !!!!
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Box Office Info
Local phone (928) 776-2000
Toll free phone 877-928-4253
Phone orders taken Monday - Friday from 10:00
AM to 4:00 PM
Lobby hours are Thursday and Friday from 10:00
AM to 4:00 PM
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Online Ticket Sales
Convenience and service fees apply and are
non-refundable
www.yc.edu/communityevents
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www.Tickets.com
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A
NOTE FROM TONI:
03/27/2011
Hi, everybody. I just concluded a very
nice meeting with Paul
Manz, Music Director and Conductor
of the Prescott
Pops Symphony. Some of you already
know that I will be singing with them
next February in a concert that celebrates
the Centennial of Arizona and Valentine's
Day in one evening of music.
The orchestra will do the first half featuring
music of Arizona and the west. After intermission,
I will do an evening of classic love songs
by the great American composers, such
as George Gershwin, Irving Berlin,
Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Sammy Cahn,
etc. It will be a VERY romantic program
with fabulous arrangements by Sammy
Nestico and Billy Byers (also
one of the great arrangers).
I asked Paul about the ticket situation
so I could give all of you a heads up.
It will be performed at Yavapai College
Performance Hall just like my big band
concert. The tickets are $20 each...for
every seat in the house!!! A very fair
price, I think.
Here's the deal.... in the first week
of April, they will put the Prescott Pops
Symphony season tickets on sale.... the
season includes 3 concerts. The season
tickets are $60. My concert will be sold
as part of the season for a month. After
that, they will sell individual concerts.
If you want to get a good seat, you might
want to consider a season ticket.
Paul said the best way to get tickets
right now is to call Community Events
ticket sales at the college. The number
is 928 776 2000.
T he proceeds ALL go to music education.
Suggestionz: Check Community EventsTicket
Ssales sometime in the next two weeks...even
though the concert is months away!!!!
(God...I'll be ANCIENT by then!!!!!).
Please let others know who might be interested.
It should be a FUN evening of great music
TONI.....
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Date:
APR. 1, 2010
A
TT, BIG BAND Concert is officially 'in the
works'. Toni's local, & very-successful
concert, performed last summer ('09) has
inspired Toni to perform once again in the
Prescott, AZ area around the first week
of fall, 2010..
Tickets should be available by May, 2010.
Read more...
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yes
 Announcement
Date: May. 1, 2010
Yes
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- - a rare, TT, BIG BAND Concert is officially scheduled
for Sept. 25th, 2010.
Toni's local, & very-successful BIG
BAND CONCERT, via the Prescott
Jazz Summit, performed last summer ('09) has
inspired Toni to perform once again in a larger,
beautiful, local theatre on the Yavapai College
campus: THE YAVAPAI
COLLEGE PERFORMANCE HALL. - located in the city
of Prescott, AZ
Tickets should be available by May, 2010.
Read more below...
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Yavapai
College Performance Hall
1100 East Sheldon St.
Prescott, AZ 86301
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Tickets will go on sale Monday, May 10th
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Ticket prices: $40 (front row), $35, $30
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Box Office Info
Local phone (928) 776-2000
Toll free phone 877-928-4253
Phone orders taken Monday - Friday from 10:00
AM to 4:00 PM
Lobby hours are Thursday and Friday from 10:00
AM to 4:00 PM
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Online Ticket Sales
Convenience and service fees apply and are
non-refundable
www.yc.edu/communityevents
OR
www.Tickets.com
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Read
the local Prescott, AZ newspaper article
Tennille / Big-Band Concert announcment here.. at
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The
Daily Courier / The AZ Edge.
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Date:
NOV. 2, 2009
ON
NOV, 2nd, 2009, When patients at the local
Prescott, AZ hospital receive a visit from
a big, friendly Australian Shepherd therapy
dog, they don't often notice that on the
other end of the lead is '70s pop music
icon Toni Tennille
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Tennille,
'Smoky' bring new smiles; hospital patients get
regular visits from pop music icon, her dog...
By
HEIDI DAHMS FOSTER, Special to the Courier
- BELOW PHOTO: BY: SIMON WICKES:
http://www.simonwickes.com/
Sunday,
November 01, 2009
When patients at the Yavapai
Regional Medical Center in Prescott receive a visit
from a big, friendly Australian Shepherd therapy
dog, they don't often notice that on the other end
of the lead is '70s pop music icon Toni Tennille.
Singer Tennille and her husband, keyboard artist
Daryl Dragon, together made up the Grammy-winning
duo Captain and Tennille, earning five gold albums,
six gold singles, two platinum albums and one platinum
single.
At the hospital however, it's the happy personality
and soft, shiny coat of "Smoky" that draws
people's attention when the two enter the room.
Then, Tennille said, about one out of eight patients
say, "You look familiar!"...
...READ
THE ENTIRE, PRESCOTT COURIER NEWSPAPER ARTICLE,
HERE....
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Date:
Jul. 29, 2009
ON
AUG. 29th, 2009, TONI has planned a one
hour (+) / NON-PROFIT, big band performance
in her home-town, PRESCOTT, AZ. Try to attend
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- WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN DO-David
A. Kent and Jimmy Alan Stewart
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- MAKING WHOOPEE-Walter
Donaldson and Gus Kahn
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JEEPERS CREEPERS-Johnny
Mercer and Harry Warren
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PARDON MY SOUTHERN ACCENT-Johnny
Mercer and Matty Malnick
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MEMPHIS IN JUNE -
Hoagy Carmichael and Paul F. Webster
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MOONGLOW -Will
Hudson, Eddie Delange and Morgan LewisI WISH
I WERE INLOVE AGAIN-Rodgers and Hart
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THIS CAN’T BE LOVE-Rodgers
and Hart
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- SMILE - Charlie
Chaplin (Guitar Only)
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TENDERLY - Walter
Gross (Guitar Only)
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- ALL RIGHT OKAY YOU WIN-Sidney
Wyche and Mayme Watts
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- BLUES IN THE NIGHT/COME RAIN OR COME SHINE-Arlen
and Mercer
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- DREAM-Johnny
Mercer
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- THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC-Arlen
and Mercer
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- FOR ALL WE KNOW -
Sam M. Lewis and J. Fred Coots
(Guitar
Only)
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- LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER-Sedaka
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Greenfield
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Date:
Feb 23, 2004
TONI
DOES HER MUSICAL DUTY TO HER COUNTRY
- Delivering a flawless performance in Washington
D.C.
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The
U.S. AIR FORCE
BAND
/ SYMPHONY -
Shares the Stage with Toni.
There's only ONE WAY to describe the level of
success that brought joy to attendees of the absolutely
PACKED, Washington D.C. Audience, and that is, to
now read what those concert goers wrote to Toni
via Toni's FAN E-Mail.
YES: Read what fans were inspired to write in regards
to this exhilerating concert, which even featured
the inspired, masterful arrangement of AMERICA THE
BEAUTIFUL, arranged by Toni's famous 'father in
law', ('the captain's father) Mr. Carmen
Dragon.
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Subj: Air Force Band Concert was
great!!!!
Date: Monday, February 23, 2004 9:19:15 AM
From: J---@comcast.net
To: tonifans@aol.com -
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Hi Toni,
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The whole Air Force Band Concert on Sunday Feb 22
04 was just great.
You are now my favorite entertainer - you are a
first rate class act - if only we could get more
entertainers like yourself.
I liked everything you did - the rendition of "America,
the Beautiful" - I thought was the best I'll
ever hear. I wish I had a video of the performance
to send to my parents who are now in their eighties.
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Best regards - John R.
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Reston, VA
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Subj: USAF Show, Washington, D.C.
Date: Monday, February 23, 2004 3:45:11 AM
From: B---
To: Tonifans -
I had the pleasure of seeing you Feb.22 at Constitution
Hall in Wash.,D.C. It was one of the greatest "Big
Band" shows I have ever seen.
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Your tribute to the service men overseas was first-rate.
Again thank you very much. -
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Sincerely,
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Randy S. B.
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Subj: Hi
Date: Sunday, February 22, 2004 7:32:54 PM
From: T---@webtv.net
To: tonifans@aol.com
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Toni:
My name is Jim Lee and I saw you on sunday (2-22-04)
in D.C. at Constitution Hall. I was in the third
row in the center. Had an excellent view and took
lots of pictures. I live in Maryland and have loved
your music with The Captain. Your concert was excellent.
I wished I could have met you after the show. I'll
have to look into buying someone your new music.
Thanks for coming back to D.C. I was sad that I
could not see you last year because of the snow.
Please come back to the area some time.
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Jim
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Date:
Dec 21, 2003
TONI
DOES GOOD FOR LOCAL 'Reno Chamber Orch'.
A 'Live' CD is available !!
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Tennille
Headlines RCO Benefit Concert
Editorial
RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
11/21/2003 11:48 pm
Tennille headlines benefit concert
Entertainer Toni Tennille, for headlining a benefit
concert for the Reno Chamber Orchestra.
Tennille, the Nevada governor’s ambassador
for the arts, and her husband, Daryl Dragon, also
gave countless hours to promoting and preparing
for the event, gave the RCO the use of their concert
staff and came up with numerous creative ideas to
make the event better, including a live CD recording
that was available by order to concert-goers. Tennille
also has done benefit concerts for the Reno Philharmonic
and Nevada Opera.
Update:
RCO Live-Performance CD Available !
12/21/2003
A
Special Note From Toni...
In early November of this year (2003) Daryl and
I performed a benefit concert for the Reno Chamber
Orchestra (RCO). The concert was held at the University
of Nevada, Reno, at Nightingale Hall, a lovely,
intimate 600 seat theatre.
The concert was a fabulous success, and raised much-needed
funds for the RCO. Daryl and I arranged to have
the concert professionally recorded, with proceeds
from sales of the CDs to benefit the RCO.
A recording of the entire concert is now available
in a two CD set. In the first CD, I sing many of
my favorite songs written by great American composers
such as George Gershwin and Johnny Mercer, accompanied
by pianist and alto sax player, Matt Catingub, and
bassist Hans Halt. Many of the songs I chose were
requested by audience members in the weeks before
the concert. Some of the songs on the first CD include
MAKIN’ WHOOPEE, ZIPADEEDOODAH, SENTIMENTAL
JOURNEY, I GOT IT BAD AND THAT AIN’T GOOD,
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME, and FOR ALL WE KNOW.
The second CD begins with four great standards,
which were among the special requests I received,
including Charlie Chaplin’s SMILE, and George
Gershwin’s OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY. Then I
introduce the “Special Guest Star” for
the evening, Captain of the Keyboards, DARYL DRAGON!!!
As usual, all bets are off once Daryl takes the
stage! We performed many C&T favorites, including
MUSKRAT LOVE, DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME, LOVE
WILL KEEP US TOGETHER, and COME IN FROM THE RAIN.
We also did a version of BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS,
a special request from an audience member. We closed
the concert with the song I wrote to close each
one of our television shows, WE NEVER REALLY SAY
GOODBYE. Some of you may remember that one.
Both CDs include everything heard from the stage
that night, including all my talk about the songs,
Daryl’s comments, and audience reaction, in
addition to the music. It is the ONLY LIVE RECORDING
we have ever done. I think you would really enjoy
it, and the proceeds from the CD sales go to one
of our favorite musical organizations here in northern
Nevada, the Reno Chamber Orchestra.
The RCO Benefit Concert two-CD set is available
only through the Reno
Chamber Orchestra. It is not available in stores.
Please call Fifi or Scott at the RCO office at 775
348 9413 for details. Hope you enjoy the concert!!!
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Date:
Oct 03, 2003
TONI'S
'MORE THAN YOU KNOW' CD available in local
record stores around the U.S. in October,
2003!
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 CALLING
ALL TONI FANS
Toni's
CD entitled 'MORE THAN YOU KNOW'' CD has
been licensed to the record company, 'Varese
Sarabande Records'. This new release (originally
released in 1984, also includes the majority of
cuts from the '86 release of the album entitled
'ALL OF ME'. (cover appearing below...).
READ
ALL ABOUT IT HERE
This compilation of classic, big band masterpieces
can be ordered through your local record store as
well as online via TOWER
RECORDS.com. Simply ask your store for the new
'More Than You Know' CD by Toni on 'Varese-Sarabande'.
The official release date: October 16th, 2003.
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ALL
OF ME CD / originally released in 1986. Read more
about this new compilation release entitled 'MORE
THAN YOU KNOW' HERE.
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Date
4/6/2003
Toni Delivers An Uplifting,
Four Nights In Pittsburgh's 'Heinz Symphony
Hall'.. with... BIG BAND !!!
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Date:
Sept 18, 2001
TONI'S
'INCURABLY ROMANTIC' CD now available in local record
stores around the U.S.
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 CALLING
ALL TONI FANS !!
Toni's CD entitled
'Incurably Romantic' CD has been licensed to the record company,
'Varese
Sarabande Records', & can be ordered through your local
record store as well as online via TOWER
RECORDS.com. Simply ask your store for the new 'Incurably
Romantic' CD by Toni on 'Varese-Sarabande'. The official release
date was September 18th, 2001.
BONUS FOR FANS THAT
PURCHASED THE CD ON THE ORIGINAL 'PUREBRED' LABEL:
- All those who purchased Toni's CD on her own label, 'Purebred
Records' now have a collector's item, since this version of the
CD is not allowed to be sold as of September 18th.
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Date:
Sept 17, 2001
TONI'S
'MOONGLOW" CD was available at CDBaby.com !!
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 CALLING
ALL TONI FANS (...again) !!
Toni's classic CD
entitled 'MOONGLOW' - on Purebred
Records - which is a compilation of Toni's two, previously released,
'Big Band' CD's entitled 'MORE THAN YOU KNOW', & 'ALL OF ME',
has been re-released & made available via the secure, internet-only
CD-Sales outlet called 'CDBABY.com'.
This CD is NOT available in retail record-sales outlets.
NOTICE:
As of August, 2003, the above 'Moonglow' CD is no longer available
via CD Baby, or anywhere else. If you have a copy, it's now considered
a 'collector' CD. Congrats !!
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Date
Sept. 15, 2001
SYMPHONY PERFORMANCE REVIEW:
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Reviews
Sep 16, 2001 -
Toni Tennille Sings for a Perfect Nevada Opera
Season Opener
By Jack Neal
Before a capacity audience Saturday
night (9/15/2001) at Reno's Pioneer Center for the Performing
Arts, songstress Toni Tennille set exactly the right tone for
an American public recovering from the tragic loss of thousands
of its fellow citizens.
The question about whether the show should go on following so
much devastation and heartache after last Tuesday's acts of terror
in New York and Washington, D.C., was answered with the simple
notion that it was time for healing by coming together and sharing.
Nearly a half century ago, actress Helen Hayes made a comment
about the closing of Seattle's Metropolitan Theater that seems
somehow appropriate at this defining moment in U.S. History. "There's
no place in a community," Miss Hayes said, "save perhaps
a church, where so much fellowship takes place among people as
in a theater."
And so Saturday's concert of fellowship went on, as it should
have. Miss Tennille sang nearly two dozen songs with the inimitable,
smoky, band-singer style for which she always manages to go a
step or two beyond sensational. Using a huge number of Sammy Nestico
arrangements for a host of great American songs - by Gershwin,
Mercer, Arlen, Kahn. to name but a few - the tall, trim singer,
dressed in a gorgeous white satin, off-the-shoulder beaded gown,
held a love fest of song with an audience that absorbed it all
with a love that radiated back across the footlights in one of
a lifetime's most memorable evening's of music.
It was Nevada Opera's season kick-off concert and it was perfect
in every way. From the graciousness and talents of Miss Tennille,
to the extraordinary pianistic fireworks of Nevada Opera Artistic
Director Robin Andrew Stamper, who played a knockout and rapturous
Gershwin Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra, everything was
just right. The sumptuous 72-piece symphony orchestra, with a
full sax and rhythm section to boot, brought back memories of
the lavish sounds of MGM musicals and the rich, soaring arrangements
that helped make Frank Sinatra one of the world's most endearing
singers.
If all those superb things weren't enough, Tennille accompanist
pianist Kathy Rubbicco, who made the Washoe County Community Concerts
Steinway concert grand sound like a symphony orchestra by itself,
was all things in all ways to all the songs performed. She's simply
a superb musician and pianist. The Nevada Opera Orchestra, already
enhanced, was made even more spectacular by the presence of showbiz
drummer Tony Savage and rhythm bassist Hans Halt. Rusty Higgins
conducted. He's a major show-business conductor who did complete
justice to all the orchestra played, including conducting the
Gershwin as a stand-in for Stamper's scheduled conductor (who
could not make it to Reno because of air traffic restrictions)
for a robust collaboration with the pianist for the Concerto in
F.
The concert was filled with thrill after thrill, but nothing quite
like the not-a-dry-eye-in-the-house burst of patriotism seeing
the flag of the United States carried on stage by a young man
in uniform. The rousing performance of the "Star Spangled
Banner," as played by the orchestra and sung with pride and
passion by an audience spontaneously turned into something akin
to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, will never be forgotten by those
who experienced it.
Nor will anything else be soon, if ever, forgotten. The Gerswhin,
one of the most truly American piano works in concerto form, was
given the jaunty, brash kind of lusty performance a young, sure-of-himself
George Gerswhin might have engendered. Mr. Stamper brought the
work's formidable keyboard virtuosity off without a hitch and
with tremendous flair. Given the pianist's age, not much older
than Gerswhin when the Concerto in F was introduced, and confident,
upbeat temperament, it was as if Gershwin himself had honored
Saturday's audience with his presence.
"An Evening with Toni Tennille" had it all, including
the star herself. "Incurably Romantic," a Sammy Kahn
tune and the title of Tennille's new CD, was hushed, velvety smooth,
and - incurably romantic. "Fascinatin' Rhythm," in a
blazing Sammy Nestico setting, was given a finger-snappin' flippant
nonchalance that drove to the tune's spunky rhythmic nitch with
verve. Tennille's masterful and seductive "Blues in the Night."
was nothing short of splendid, a torment of full-throated Sarah
Vaughan sound. She infused "Guess Who I Saw Today?"
- in fact all she sang - with a personal intensity that comes
as much from her experience as a mature woman who has experienced
the dents and bruises of life as from her throat. She's a formidable
singing actress
Daryl Dragon, the keyboard half of the Captain and Tennille team
(the couple was married in 1975), also made an appearance. When
he backs his wife without clowning, as he did with Melissa Manchester's
"Come in From the Rain." his extensive talent shows.
Poignantly and quietly, "Come in from the Rain" - the
evening's underlying theme for healing in a time of trouble and
sorrow - ended a concert that was as fresh and right as a cleansing
summer rain.
Nevada Opera's 2001-2002 season includes a double bill of Puccini's
"Sister Angelica" and Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci"
November 2 and 4, 2001, Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro"
February 15 and 17, 2002, and Bizet's "Carmen" May 3,
5 and 7, 2002. For information call 775-786-4046.
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