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
richardd@...
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...
songscout@...
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...
Hey Group ... You can hear Joshua Redman performing "Moon and Sand" by visiting the following link: http://www.wbgo.org/ontheair/jazzset/index.php -- that's...
In a note from Judy Bell I have learned that James T. Maher passed away on July 18th. He had been in failing health for some time. Most Alec Wilder Group...
James Maher, 90, Historian of Popular Song by Will Friedwald New York Sun, July 26, 2007 James Maher, a writer and historian who exerted a vast influence on...
Jim Maher was a lovely person, one we knew over the many years of our friendship but had not been in touch with lately. So sorry to hear he's gone. Thanks...
oopapada@...
Jul 26, 2007 6:48 pm
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May I echo the warm sentiment of Marlene and Billy? I feel privileged having known Jim Maher and his wife, Barbara. Jim was one of the kindest gentleman I've...
Robert Levy
robert.levy@...
Jul 29, 2007 2:54 am
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Hello All - The following is an e-mail that I received from Gail Schechter (clarinet) regarding the excellent press coverage on their planned AW concert: ALEC...
I found the article at http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/chi-0729_wilderjul29,0,4933924.story or just search the Tribune for "Alec Wilder". ...
Karavan
orthodox@...
Aug 1, 2007 8:05 pm
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Boydell & Brewer, the (UK) publishers currently have a special offer on the David Dempsey annotated version of Alec Wilder's "Letters I Never Mailed: Clues to...
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