Symphony Lounge
Encore Performance!
Saturday, September 25, 2010
8:00pm, Atlas Performing Arts Center
This concert sold out in March! If you missed it then, or just want to experience it again, here's your chance. Join CCS for a special encore performance of SYMPHONY LOUNGE and our CD Release Party (recording of the March concert). Featuring Charlie Barnett's cool jazz band, Chaise Lounge, along with the full Capital City Symphony. This concert will also include a reprise of the Orchestral Suite "The Tarot" by Charlie Barnett.
- Charlie Barnett, The Tarot
- Symphony Lounge, with Charlie Barnett's Chaise Lounge
PRESS RELEASE
The Capital City Symphony presents a special encore
presentation of SYMPHONY LOUNGE
a special collaboration with Charlie Barnett and Chaise Lounge
It's jazz! It's classical! It's SYMPHONY LOUNGE – This unique joint venture of the Capital City Symphony and Charlie Barnett's Chaise Lounge was a huge hit in March, with a sold-out house. If you missed that performance, or just want to experience it again, join us on Saturday, September 25 at 8:00pm at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H Street NE, Washington, DC. Followed by a CD release party for Chaise Lounge: Symphony Lounge, recorded at the March concert. Tickets $20-$30. Available at capitalcitysymphony.org or 202-399-7993.
As a film composer, Mr. Barnett’s scores have appeared in more than four hundred television and theatrical films. His concert music career includes worldwide performances of his orchestral and chamber works. He has also arranged and produced pop and jazz records for countless artists; and he continues to proudly play with the eclectic lounge band, Chaise Lounge, whose second album was released in early 2009. Mr. Barnett can also be heard as an occasional commentator on NPR. [Read more at http://www.charliebarnett.com/about.html.]
Chaise Lounge performs a blend of music that sounds like it was recorded at Capitol Recording Studios in 1962 and somehow found its way to today’s pop charts. You might call it “Early Stereo.” Or perhaps Lounge with a capital “L.” Or maybe just plain enjoyable. It is the combination of five of the Washington area’s top jazz musicians playing sparkling arrangements of standards and original tunes and featuring the soft, luminous vocals of Marilyn Older. Her voice is truly an American Original. An evening spent with her is an evening spent in the warm, inviting glow of the one of the wonderful voices singing in America right now.
Now in its 43rd season, the Capital City Symphony, one of the original Arts Partners at the Atlas, makes music approachable by presenting affordable concerts to the public, performing creative programs in a relaxed concert format, and providing appealing performance opportunities for talented amateur as well as professional players.
CCS and Charlie Barnett collaborated several years ago on Mr. Barnett's symphony “The Blue Chevrolet.” Ever since then, Mr. Barnett and CCS Artistic Director Victoria Gau had been exploring the possibility of a larger collaboration, which resulted in the premiere performance of Symphony Lounge in March 2010. That program included the world premier of Mr. Barnett's new orchestral work The Tarot in the first half. The second half featured full orchestrations of his jazz arrangements for Chaise Lounge and the Capital City Symphony.
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a special collaboration with Charlie Barnett and Chaise Lounge
It's jazz! It's classical! It's SYMPHONY LOUNGE – This unique joint venture of the Capital City Symphony and Charlie Barnett's Chaise Lounge was a huge hit in March, with a sold-out house. If you missed that performance, or just want to experience it again, join us on Saturday, September 25 at 8:00pm at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H Street NE, Washington, DC. Followed by a CD release party for Chaise Lounge: Symphony Lounge, recorded at the March concert. Tickets $20-$30. Available at capitalcitysymphony.org or 202-399-7993.
As a film composer, Mr. Barnett’s scores have appeared in more than four hundred television and theatrical films. His concert music career includes worldwide performances of his orchestral and chamber works. He has also arranged and produced pop and jazz records for countless artists; and he continues to proudly play with the eclectic lounge band, Chaise Lounge, whose second album was released in early 2009. Mr. Barnett can also be heard as an occasional commentator on NPR. [Read more at http://www.charliebarnett.com/about.html.]
Chaise Lounge performs a blend of music that sounds like it was recorded at Capitol Recording Studios in 1962 and somehow found its way to today’s pop charts. You might call it “Early Stereo.” Or perhaps Lounge with a capital “L.” Or maybe just plain enjoyable. It is the combination of five of the Washington area’s top jazz musicians playing sparkling arrangements of standards and original tunes and featuring the soft, luminous vocals of Marilyn Older. Her voice is truly an American Original. An evening spent with her is an evening spent in the warm, inviting glow of the one of the wonderful voices singing in America right now.
Now in its 43rd season, the Capital City Symphony, one of the original Arts Partners at the Atlas, makes music approachable by presenting affordable concerts to the public, performing creative programs in a relaxed concert format, and providing appealing performance opportunities for talented amateur as well as professional players.
CCS and Charlie Barnett collaborated several years ago on Mr. Barnett's symphony “The Blue Chevrolet.” Ever since then, Mr. Barnett and CCS Artistic Director Victoria Gau had been exploring the possibility of a larger collaboration, which resulted in the premiere performance of Symphony Lounge in March 2010. That program included the world premier of Mr. Barnett's new orchestral work The Tarot in the first half. The second half featured full orchestrations of his jazz arrangements for Chaise Lounge and the Capital City Symphony.
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VIDEO CLIP - Recorded at March 2010 Performance
Capital City Symphony and Chaise Lounge: SYMPHONY LOUNGE
"Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_o4pMxIu3g
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