Which Katz?
(
Raises hand sheepishly) Um .... me.
Here's some of what we managed to do in 3 hours:
Let Me Sing and I'm Happy (Irving Berlin)
talked about the sheet music industry before WW1.
in response to question about song pluggers, played
I'll Capture Your Heart Singing (Irving Berlin)
Setting lyrics to music, and where one should rhyme:
Someone to Watch Over Me (Gershwin)
I Talk to the Trees (Lerner & Loewe)
On the Street Where You Live (Lerner & Loewe)
Wouldn't It Be Loverly (Lerner & Loewe)
I Can Hear the Bells (Shaiman & Wittman, from Hairspray)
The Wedding Night (Noel Katz)
composing from a title:
Time After Time (Cahn & Styne)
creating harmonic interest:
Oh What a Beautiful Morning (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
The Man I Love (Gershwin)
"Stealing" chord progressions:
A Simple Love Song (Noel Katz [at age 14])
A Ship Without a Sail (Rodgers & Hart)
Sondheim's criticism of Hart:
I Could Write a Book (Rodgers & Hart)
Counterpoint: improvised trio about baseball season
Advice From the Bridesmaids (Noel Katz)
Mine (Gershwin)
Tradition (Bock & Harnick)
forms other than AABA: Verse/Chorus and strophic:
The Long and Winding Road (Lennon & McCartney)
The Grey Goose (traditional folk song)
Jimmy Crack Corn (traditional folk song)
Maxwell's Silver Hammer (Lennon & McCartney)
The Picture in the Hall (Craig Carnelia)
We ended with Barbara Cook's recording of
Stars (Janis Ian)