ALEC WILDER CENTENNIAL CONCERT Merkin Concert Hall Sunday, April 29th, 2007, 6:30 pm PROGRAM SUCH A TENDER NIGHT (1939) IT'S SILK, FEEL IT (1939) JACK, THIS IS...
Bravo! Everyone involved should be proud of the event! The performers were magnificent; the music was well chosen and I felt Alec's spirit in attendance. ...
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May 2, 2007 1:27 am
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I would appreciate your alerting the participants in the Alec Wilder Group to the news of my family's recent launching of a website on my father, Cy Walter's,...
It is impossible for me to imagine a better representation of the essence of Alec Wilder than the program given at NYC's Merkin Hall this past Sunday evening,...
Levy,Robert
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May 2, 2007 7:51 pm
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I believe the pianist from Eastman is Bill Dobbins, not "Dobbs." But I've been wrong before ... David Lahm...
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May 2, 2007 7:53 pm
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All in all, I am pleased with the performance of our Alec Wilder Group website at Yahoo. But I have observed that occasionally some postings "fall through the...
Hello- If anyone's interested, I've put together an overview of Alec Wilder's life and music. It's intended to be given at continuing education centers, senior...
The newest issue of Stereophile Magazine has a lengthy article on Mr. Orrin Keepnews, one of the most ardent contributors to the Alec Wilder Group over the...
On his new CD titled "Borrowed Time" [Tone Center], guitarist Steve Kahn has included the Wilder-Engvick-Palitz song "Moon and Sand" (here called "Luna y...
ANNOUNCEMENT ALEC WILDER CENTENNIAL TRIBUTE Drawing from personal conversations and correspondence over the course of their friendship, Richard Wyszynski...
Joining a quintet fronted by trombonists Dave Graf and Brad Bellows, songstress Lucia Newell included a version of the Wilder-Engvick-Palitz song "Moon and...
(catching up with old mailings after an absence) One possible reason for missing Yahoo Group mailings may be, depending on your e-mail service, that the...
I suppose it was inevitable that Wilder songs would eventually appear on YouTube, that amalgam of amateur videography. Four clips -- two are a student...
The recently released "Bill Charlap Trio: Live at the Village Vanguard" [Angel] (always a wonderful venue to hear this very fine group) includes a performance...
Last evening, Jason Luthy (assisted by Allison Ringold) performed Wilder's "Sonata for Euphonium and Piano" in a recital at the First Presbyterian Church in...
Can someone suggest a reliable, thorough history of American popular song? I love Alec Wilder's book, but am looking for something less concerned with...
In the announcement posted several days ago (June 10), regarding the Alec Wilder Tribute Concert, August 3 at the Harold Washington Public Library in Chicago,...
You might want to start with these two: Good luck. Happy reading. Easy to remember : the great American songwriters and their songs by William Knowlton...
Richard Dillman
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Jun 20, 2007 8:18 pm
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Check out also William G. Hyland's "The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950" from Oxford University Press (1995). John Biderman...
This is great! I'll just happen to be in Chicago that week. While looking at the Chicago Public Library website I also found this: "The Chicago Public...
On April 9th, at the University of Iowa, the New Music Ensemble from the University of Minnesota performed two of the Wilder octets ("Neurotic Goldfish" and...
On May 31st, the Reilly Quartet performed Wilder's "Jazz Suite for Four Horns" at the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois. The quartet, whose members...
Tenor saxophonist Grant Stewart, a Toronto native, performed Wilder's "Trouble Is A Man" in his recent engagement at Smalls' Basement, a Manhattan jazz club. ...
In Mid-April, at her concert at the Lincoln Center's "Singers Over Manhattan" series, Dianne Reeves included the Thad Jones - Alec Wilder song "A Child Is...
It seems to me that Wilder's beautiful "Moon and Sand" has, thankfully, become a second-tier standard in the past 20 years or so. Has anyone ever compiled...
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Jun 23, 2007 9:27 pm
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I'm familiar with most Alec Wilder songs, even his more ignored and seldom heard rarities. But, I've never heard his 1952 song written with Bill Engvick,...
... Roger, it was also recorded by Betty Blake for her "Sings in a Tender Mood" LP (Bethlehem BCP 6058 1962). Bill Engvick has told me that "Don't Say Love Has...
