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...last month, Let’s Go’s leadership has been discussing the proposal to cut publications with St. Martin’s Press, its publisher. A final decision will not be made for at least two months, said Tom M. Mercer ’01, Let’s Go’s project director at St. Martin?...
...don’t have an absolute plan for what our titles are going to be next year,” Mercer said...
...they use this harmony, or did they mean it to be that harmony?" said Rob Fisher. "I agonize over this, because I want the score to sound exactly as it did originally." No reclamation project was as daunting as that of "St. Louis Woman," the 1946 Arlen-Johnny Mercer musical revived in 1998. "There was no score," Fisher said, "just scraps of material." Ace orchestrators Ralph Burns and Luther Henderson re-created - and, for the overture and dance numbers, were obliged to create - the musical settings. Topflight actor-singers signed on. And then the inspired rush to turn...
...album also showed that Charles could lay his tortured vocal style on such chestnuts as the Arlen-Mercer ?Come Rain or Come Shine? and Irving Berlin?s ?Alexander?s Ragtime Band.? That?s an amazing cut. Written as a ?coon song? (minstrel number) in 1911, Charles made it a black song; he transformed this antique march into a big-band raver. The band (Burns did the brassy, bluesy charts) plays the melody and Charles comes in an antiphonal bar later, bleating "Come on an' hear!" By the end of the chorus he's quoting his own "This Little Girl...
...We’ve been training in cold weather so it could be tough to adjust on Monday,” Mercer said. “Chafing could be tough, it’s so nasty...