Woodchopper’s Ball

"Woodchopper's Ball", also known as "At the Woodchopper's Ball" is

a 1939 jazz composition by Joe Bishop and Woody Herman. The up-tempo blues tune was the Woody

Herman Orchestra's biggest hit, as well as the most popular

composition of either composer, selling a million records.[

My Funny Valentine"My Funny Valentine" is a show

tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz

Hart musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by former child

star Mitzi Green. The song became a popular jazz standard, appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists, including Chet Baker, Bill

Evans, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Andy

Williams, Shirley Bassey, Miles Davis, Nico, Elvis Costello and Chaka

Khan.

Watermelon Man

"Watermelon Man" is a jazz standard written by Herbie Hancock,

first released on his debut album, Takin' Off (1962).

First version was released as a grooving hard bop and featured

improvisations by Freddie Hubbard and Dexter

Gordon. A single of the tune reached the Top 100 of the pop charts.

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Cuban percussionist Mongo Santamaría released the tune as a Latin pop single the next year

on Battle Records, where it became a surprise hit, reaching #10 on the pop charts. Santamaría's recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1998. Hancock radically

re-worked the tune, combining elements of funk, for the

album Head Hunters (1973).

A Day in the Life of a Fool"Manhã de Carnaval" ("Morning of Carnival"), is the most popular song

by Brazilian composer Luiz Bonfá and lyricist Antônio Maria.

Manhã de Carnaval appeared as a principal theme in the 1959

Portuguese-language film Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus) by French

director Marcel Camus, with a soundtrack that also included a

number of memorable songs by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinícius

de Moraes, as well as another composition by Bonfá (Samba de

Orfeu). 

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Manhã de Carnaval appears in multiple scenes in the film, including

versions sung or hummed by both the principal characters (Orfeu and Euridice), as well as an instrumental version, so that the song has been described as the "main" musical

theme of the film. In the portion of the film in which the song is sung by

the character Orfeu, portrayed by Breno Mello, the song was

dubbed by Agostinho dos Santos.

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The song was initially rejected for inclusion in the film by Camus, but

Bonfá was able to convince the director that the music for Manhã de Carnaval was superior to the song

Bonfá composed as a replacement. Orfeu Negro was an international success (winning, for

example, an Academy Award in 1960), and brought the song to a

large audience.

A Day in the Life of a FoolManhã de Carnaval became one of

the first compositions identified with Bossa Nova to gain popularity

outside Brazil. Particularly in the United States, the song is considered

to be one of the most important Brazilian Jazz/Bossa songs that

helped establish the Bossa Nova movement in the late 1950s.

Manhã de Carnaval has become a jazz standard in the USA, while it is

still performed regularly by a wide variety of musicians around the

world in its vocalized version or just as an instrumental one.

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In the United States, the song is also known as "A Day in the Life of a

Fool", "Carnival", "Theme from Black Orpheus", or simply "Black

Orpheus". In France, the song is also known as "La Chanson d'Orphée".

The song is also known by the Spanish title "Mañana de Carnaval".

All versions of foreign texts were written by lyricists other than

Antônio Maria, using Bonfá's original music.

The Greatest American Hero

The Greatest American Hero is an American comedy-drama television series that aired for three seasons from 1981 to 1983 on ABC.Created by producer Stephen J. Cannell, it

premiered as a two-hour pilot movie on March 18, 1981. The series

features William Katt as teacher Ralph Hinkley ("Hanley" for the latter

part of the first season), Robert Culp as FBI agent Bill Maxwell,

and Connie Sellecca as lawyer Pam Davidson.

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The series chronicles Ralph's adventures after a group of aliens

gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities.

Unfortunately for Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, he immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its

powers by trial and error, often with comical results.

Li’l Darlin

Li'l Darlin' is a 1957 jazz standard, composed by trumpeter Neal

Hefti for the Count Basie Orchestra.After lyrics were added

by Jon Hendricks, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross recorded it with

Basie in 1958. When Basie's orchestra performed it live on

the Judy Garland Show in 1959, Mel Torme sang, and Ella Fitzgerald also recorded the song with the orchestra

for her 1971 album

Artistic Ethics

I will respect my audience

regardless of size or station.

Artistic Ethics

The Show Must Go On! I will never

miss a performance.

Artistic Ethics

I shall play every performance to the best of my ability, regardless of how

small my role or large my personal problems.

Artistic Ethics

I shall never miss an entrance by my failure to be

ready.

Artistic Ethics

I shall forego all social activities which interfere with rehearsals

and always be on time.

Artistic Ethics

I shall never leave until I have

completed my performance.

Artistic Ethics

I shall accept the director’s advice in

the spirit in which it is given for he sees the production as a whole

and my role as a portion thereof.

Artistic Ethics

I shall respect the music and the composer,

remembering that “A work of art is not a work of art until it is finished.”

Artistic Ethics

I shall direct my efforts in such a manner that when I leave this organization it will stand as a greater institution for my having

labored there.