Along with the weaning of American "classical" music from its European ancestry, exemplified in the works of Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, William Schuman, and others, the thirties also saw the flowering of the two other major American art/entertainment forms: the Hollywood musical and the American musical theater, as reshaped by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Vincent Youmans, Arthur Schwartz, Vernon Duke, and Cole Porter.

From, I Love You to Love for Sale, the New York City Big Band with direction and narration by Clem DeRosa plus a Broadway vocalist present A Night of Anything Goes.

"From a satirist of high society to a smitten lover to a purveyor of verbal pyrotechnics, Cole Porter had so many sides to his songwriting personality"

-The New York Times on Porter.

"Your Big Band, under Clem DeRosa's expert direction, provided just the right background for a waterside evening of informal fun, and we were delighted to note that the dance floor was continually packed...Your men and woman performed beautifully throughout...Jane (President of PassKey) joins me in thanking you for everything, and particularly your patience and good counsel in the planning stages. Bravo, Mr. Sonder, for a job well done."

-Sue W. Frank, PassKey Associates

Selections on the program will be chosen from the following:
Anything Goes
C'est Magnifique
Don't Fence Me In
Got You Under My Skin
I Concentrate on You
I Get a Kick Out of You
I Love You
In the Still of the Night
It's All Right With Me
Just One of Those Things
Love for Sale
Night and Day
What is this Thing Called Love
You're the Top

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