Name: Dick Lowenthal's Big Band with Lisanne Lyons - Broadway and Newly Discovered Duke Ellington Music
Start: 2024-12-13T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Arts Garage

Dick Lowenthal's Big Band with Lisanne Lyons - Broadway and Newly Discovered Duke Ellington Music

The Dick Lowenthal Big Band, with vocalist Lisanne Lyons will perform jazz arrangements of many of the most important Broadway show composers. They will include George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein and others. The concert will include music from the libraries of Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton, Count Basie, Bob Mintzer, Johnny Richards and other leading big band arrangers.. A special part of the program will also include newly discovered songs of Duke Ellington, that have been arranged for big band by Grammy nominated arranger, Rich DeRosa, and have not been previously performed in public performances in the United States.

PERFORMER BIOS:
Dick Lowenthal
Retired Professor Emeritus Richard Lowenthal recently retired after teaching Jazz for over 50 years. He founded and chaired the Jazz Program at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music and conducted the award-winning Jazz Orchestra. He also started the Jazz Program at New Jersey City University. As a conductor and performer, he has appeared with Clark Terry, Wynton Marsalis, Nancy Wilson, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Mel Torme, and Cher, among others. While conducting the Special Unit of the Glenn Miller Orchestra for 10 years, they appeared in concerts throughout the world, the Tony Awards, and various Presidential receptions.
Finally, Dick is Chair of the Arts Garage Board of Directors and two-time donor to the Band of Angels and has been teaching his successful Jazz and Java Adult Courses for the past five years.
Lisanne Lyons
Lisanne Lyons received her Bachelors, Masters, and Doctor of Music from the University of Miami Frost School of Music. As a student, she received two Down Beat awards for Best Jazz vocalist, Best Jazz Arrangement, and one for directing Best Small Jazz Vocal Group. She is currently a Professor at FIU and Director of the Jazz vocal Program, and her vocal groups and students have won national and international performance awards.
Some of the groups Dr Lyons has performed with include the Orchestras of Woody Herman, Maynard Ferguson, and the Palm Beach Pops. She has performed with Bobby McFerrin, Mark Murphy, Jon Hendricks, Bucky Pizzarelli, Gary Burton and Brian Lynch.