- top of the charts to national television, from Beijing, China to the IU Auditorium. Under the direction
- of Dr. Steve Segre, the IU Jacobs School of Music is proud to present the Singing Hoosiers. Entertaining
- audiences from around the world for over 60 years with America's popular song. Ladies and gentlemen,
- Please welcome the singing Hoosiers!
- For those of you who perhaps might be here for the first time, I'm kind of curious whether you're at
- the auditorium or whether you're here experiencing singing Hoosiers concert for the first time. Can
- you let us know who's here for the first time? You know, it's funny. There's a spotlight in my eyes.
- So you might think I'm looking at you, but I can't really see you. So there were some people who actually
- raised their
- at Singing Hoosiers? Let me ask a few of the veterans here, how many of you have been to a Singing Hoosiers
- concert before? Okay, so we are proudly, we proudly feel like we represent the Jacobs School of Music,
- which in case you're here for the first time, you need to know is by far the best music school in the world
- famous for things like opera, symphony orchestras, and all those kinds of things. Yeah. But see, when
- you go to the opera, most of the time you can't really behave like this. And that's good. Because we
- wouldn't want you behaving like this for an opera. However, here you're allowed. The only rules we have
- is that you must have fun, and you may express yourself however you'd like, whenever you'd like. Got it?
- Well, we're celebrating 64 years, which means next year we turn 65, 65th anniversary, and I must say,
- they're holding up pretty well, aren't they? Security, I think we might need to have some of these removed.
- It's great, because we can go and we can collect social security next year, but in fact,
- In fact, this is 64, and one of the things that we celebrate in Singing Hoosiers is something we refer
- to as the Great American Songbook. Composers like George Gershwin, you'll hear from tonight, and Harold
- Arlen, and Jerome Kern, and Richard Rogers, and Cole Porter, Peru, Indiana, and this next person that
- is pretty important to anybody from Bloomington and IU, because he went to IU
- one of the greatest American songwriters ever. Of course, I'm referring to Hoagy Carmichael. The statue
- is right out there. So please enjoy the next two pieces as the singing Hoosiers pay tribute to the great
- Hoagy Carmichael.
- The whole night through. Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind. Georgia.
- Oh, it's a bright new morning we can love.
- We owe.
- on the pages, all in a row with their canaries in the cages. Mary is still quite contrary to me. Never
- will she marry if they marry, only garden by the sea. And this little piggy took a spin to the market
- by a fourth butter, only by the bacon. No, the piggy stayed at home. This little pig had none. Panty
- panty was a jack-o'-dandy, digging on a cake and sugar candy. Peter Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty
- Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty Panty
- I don't know what you're talking about.
- That's a dog.
- wish you find your love, your own true love, this day. Passions I can wish you, seven-foot men
- wherever we go one of the things that part of my job one of the really fun things about my job is to
- get to try to connect with college students and you want the best thing it's the best thing about that
- I get to connect with college students and they pay me for it it's a great gig so for this show I said
- hey guys what would you like to do they said well let's do a couple of production numbers maybe a couple
- of medleys you know medley
- For those of you from Bloomington South, a medley is a lot of songs put together. The North people paid
- me to say that. I'm sorry. Anyway, anyway, these students then put together, they said, hey, how about
- if we put together a medley of songs about heroes? And I thought, well, I can think of some hero songs.
- That might be kind of cool. Is that all you got? And they said, well, how about a medley of songs about heroes?
- and villains. So, just so you know, these amazingly talented and creative students, not only arranged,
- but they choreographed, they costumed, they produced, they directed, they did all of what you're about
- to see. Ladies and gentlemen, please enjoy singing Hoosier's Heroes and Villains Medley. Kick it, band!
- She doesn't scare you, no evil thing will. To see her is to take a sudden chill. Look out for Corella
- DeVille, DeVille. The curl of her lips, the ice in her stare. All innocent children had better beware.
- She's like a spider waiting for the kill. Look out for Corella DeVille.
- See my
- and the Singing Hoosier alumni. This past year, the Singing Hoosiers were saddened by the loss of one
- of our most cherished members, Bob Williams. Bob earned his music degree from IU
- in 1956 and served as accompanist for the Singing Hoosiers from 1954 to 1957. Bob served as president
- of the Singing Hoosiers Alumni Council and was awarded the Singing Hoosiers Distinguished Alumni Service
- Award in 1987. Bob often gave credit to the Singing Hoosiers and George F. Krieger, founding conductor,
- to shaping his everyday work
- favorite claims to fame, that he was able to play piano under all four directors in our 64-year history,
- including our own doctor's degree last year. Together with his wife, Pat, their love and admiration
- for the Singing Hoosiers led them to establish the Robert E. Williams Singing Hoosier Scholarship.
- Since its inception, there have been 10 recipients. And now, the Singing Hoosiers would like to honor
- the memory of Bob Williams with his beautiful arrangement of My Funny Valentine. And here to conduct
- is last year's 2013 Bob and Pat Williams Singing Hoosier Scholarship Award recipient, Jared McElroy.
- But you probably won't, you think you're cooler than me. You wear designer shades just to hide your
- face. And you wear them around like you're cooler than me. And you never say hey or remember my name.
- It's probably because you think you're cooler than me. Oh, no, you got your highbrow, da-da shoes on
- your feet, and you wear them
- You don't know the way that you make steps, make that much noise. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it sure
- seems, it sure seems, they've got no doubt. You've got no doubt. Banda, we all see.
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- most successful album which won the Grammy Award for album of the year in 1960. We will then perform
- a singing Hoosiers
- assistant.
- Some of the pieces of music we sing because they have a text. And that's the difference between instrumental
- music and vocal music. Vocal music has words. It sounds simple, and yet that simple fact really makes
- the music something that we can communicate. We love songs with messages, including this next one, which
- talks about raindrops that'll fall, but even when it rains, when things can get tough in life,
- you know that eventually the sun will shine if you have a little faith.
- Oh, the lines are the little eyes of Jane. Oh, the lines are the little eyes of Jane. Ah, travelers
- riding by that day. It's tough to hear, but we're passing away. The capitals, the little tennis feet
- were wet. But the little fiddler didn't listen to threats. So the stranger told the fiddler, medical,
- listen to me, that you better
- I dance with a gal with a hoe and a sucker and her heel comes a rock and her toe comes a rock and I
- dance with a gal with
- Thanks for listening!
- singing Hoosiers. It's time again for you to experience and celebrate the amazing talents of these students.
- I think they're the most talented group of students on this entire IU campus. That's just my opinion.
- They tell me they're not only the most talented group on campus, they also tell me they're the best
- looking. In any case, it's time for them to celebrate their creativity. They said, hey, how about we
- do a medley of songs. A medley. You paying attention, South? A medley of songs that have to do, because
- we love to dance. You heard Abby say, we love to dance. We love to dance. Well, how about a medley of
- songs that are about dancing?
- I said, that sounds great. What do you got? And they said, check it out. So ladies and gentlemen, they
- choreographed it, they produced it, they costumed it. It's all about dancing through the ages.
- Check it out. Are you ready band? One, two, three, here we go.
- So do I.
- Hot it.
- Thank you.
- anything we set our minds to, and so can you.