[NEohioPAL] PAPER MOON: THE SONGS OF YIP HARBURG this Sunday at Tri-C Metro

[Cassie Goldbach]

Tri-C Presents and The Musical Theater Project (TMTP) present Paper Moon: The Songs of Yip Harburg this Sunday 



Three of Cleveland’s top vocalists – Barbara Knight, Vince Mastro and Evelyn Wright – will join forces with Bill Rudman, Joe Hunter and his jazz trio to celebrate the songs of Yip Harburg on Sunday, Oct. 7  at 3 PM. The multi-media concert, part of TMTP’s “The Song Is You!” series, is titled “Paper Moon” and will be held at Tri-C Metro’s Mainstage Theater. Admission is $20, and tickets can be purchased at www.tricpresents.com   or by calling 216-987-4444.

 

Though Harburg never came a household name like fellow lyricists Oscar Hammerstein and Lorenz Hart, he wrote songs that are imbedded in the national psyche. These include the eloquent “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?,” acknowledged as the anthem of the Great Depression, and all of the lyrics for “The Wizard of Oz.” One of them, “Over the Rainbow” (music by Harold Arlen), was named the most beloved American song of the 20th century in a survey by the National Endowment for the Arts. 

 

Born in poverty to Russian Jewish parents on New York’s Lower East Side, Harburg (1896-1981) was a self-described “rebel by birth, contesting anything that is unjust, that causes suffering.” In penning more than 500 songs for Broadway and Hollywood musicals written over more than 50 years, he became a master satirist, his targets ranging from racism and classism to nuclear war. He also wrote the lyrics to the standards “Old Devil Moon,” “April in Paris,” and “It’s Only a Paper Moon.” 



Host and co-director of The Musical Theater Project Bill Rudman notes: “Harburg liked to say that ‘songs are the pulse of a nation’s heart.’ No Broadway or Hollywood lyricist before or since has charted that heartbeat with more wit, intelligence and fervency.”



Paper Moon: The Songs of Yip HarburgPresented by Tri-C Presents and The Musical Theater ProjectSunday, October 7 at 3PM Tri-C Metro Mainstage Theaterwww.tricpresents.com or (216) 987-4444www.musicaltheaterproject.org 		 	   		  
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