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Repertoires

A tasting from our brews

Sampled from
Love, Fables and Foibles and
Postcards from a Trip Abroad
• I Hear Music (swinging!)
• I Can't Give You Anything but Love (Elizabeth is sultry)
• Sous les ponts de Paris (KT is boating down the Seine)
• I Don't Know My Way Around a Dream (one of Elizabeth's own luscious compositions)
• Granada (one of John's big numbers...he's the tenor)
• How Are Things In Glocca Morra? (Bob is laid-back)
• Weekend Of A Private Secretary (Claudia gets ditzy)
• Why Do The Wrong People Travel (KT hangs out with Noel Coward)
• Schlittenfahrt (Bob sings "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" auf Deutsch)
• Ush Kadar (KT discovers Eartha Kitt in Turkey)
• Last Time I Saw Paris and Je me souviens (Bob and Claudia's sublime nostalgia)
• La vie en rose (Claudia's specialty)
• Java Jive (our theme song)
• Chicago (our second theme song when we're on tour feeling homesick)
• And This Is My Beloved (a soaring quartet)

Ingredients in our Holiday Brew
• Deck the Halls in 7/8
• Jingle Bell Rag
• Still still still
• Gloria
• Hannukah Medley
• Half & Half Holiday (by Elizabeth Doyle)
• Winter Time (by Elizabeth Doyle)
• Mel Tormé’s Christmas Song
• Santa Baby
• Days After Christmas
• Twas the Night Before Christmas
• A Merry Christmas

Our repertoire draws on:
• Art songs (18th to 20th century)
• Piano bar and jazz standards
• Adult contemporary and originals
• Broadway tunes
• Traditional French chanson
• Sacred song
• Holiday songs and madrigals

Into many foreign languages we delve:
• French
• Spanish
• Italian
• German
• Portuguese
• and we try our hand at Chinese, Hungarian, Russian, Turkish…