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YOU’RE reading it right! It is the goal of the country’s premier
vocal group The CompanY to stage its horniest show ever.
The award-winning and ultra versatile vocal
quintet joins forces with The UP Jazz Ensemble (under the headship
of Rayben Maigue), to bring to the stage a “big band” concert
entitled, Let’s Kick Some BrASS!, and never in their almost two
decades of showmanship have Annie Quintos, Moy Ortiz, Cecile
Bautista, Sweet Plantado and Jay Marquez experience singing with as
many horn instruments backing them up as it would on October 13 at
the main theater of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Let’s Kick Some BrASS! features a wide array
of musical genres that combine The CompanY’s tight vocal harmonies
with the UP Jazz Ensemble’s sonic wall of brasses. Act One will
showcase the musical genres of jazz, standards, swing music,
classical music, a cappella, Original Pilipino Music (OPM) and
Broadway music. Act Two tackles more the contemporary musical genres
of rock, house music, rhythm and blues, Motown, jazz fusion, Latin,
novelty, Original Pilipino Music (OPM) and mainstream pop.
Highlights of the repertoire include a bebop and
scatting version of the novelty hit “Boom Tarat Tarat,” Dizzy
Gillespie’s “A Night In Tunisia,” a vocal version of the
Average White Band’s instrumental funk hit “Pick Up The Pieces,
a comedic vocalese rendition of the most famous marches by John
Philip Soussa, and a boogie arrangement of the APO ’s classic OPM
hit “Lumang Tugtugin.”
This concert is a fulfillment of a seven-year
pipe dream of “The CompanY” and its musical director and concert
producer, Beth Martin. It was only this year that all the elements
of this concept show came into alignment, signaling the feasibility
and fruition of an almost decade long wait.
“When Sir Reyben [Maigue] and Michael Guevarra
of UP Jazz Ensemble expressed their enthusiasm and support for the
concept, we became very optimistic and hopeful that this might be
the year of our big band show,” shares Moy Ortiz, adding,
“However, when the officers of the Cultural Center of the
Philippines gave the green light for this project, we knew that this
dream concert was definitely going to happen this year. That sealed
the deal for everyone! Seven years is a long wait but everything
happens at the right time.”
For the CCP Gala concert, tickets are available
at all National Bookstore branches and the CCP Box Office with
telephone numbers 832-3704, 832-1125 loc. 1409-1410.
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