Here To Stay: The Gershwin Experience - MusicFest Vancouver

Friday August 10, 2012 at 8pm ~ Orpheum Theatre 

Here To Stay: The Gershwin Experience 

Music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin 

Kevin Cole, piano and vocals 

Sylvia McNair, vocals 

Ryan VanDenBoom, vocals, tap dancer 

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra 

Leslie Dala, Guest Conductor 

Concept and Music Direction by Kevin Cole 

New Orchestrations by David Snyder 

Choreography by Ryan VanDenBoom 

Additional Choreography by Germaine Salsberg 

Sound Design by Palmer Jankens 

Lighting Design by Gary Echelmeyer 

Video Design by Scott Fairchild 

Men’s Clothing created by Sonja Baker 

Kevin Cole is a Steinway Artist and plays Steinway & Sons pianos exclusively. 

Gala Opening Concert 

The music and lyrics for “Here To Stay: The Gershwin Experience” were provided through special arrangement 

with members of the George Gershwin Family and the Ira and Leonore Gershwin Trusts. 

Produced by Todd Gershwin and Daniel Chilewich of Premiere Media, LLC, and Kevin Cole. 

Concert sponsor Concert media sponsors Supported by

George Gershwin (September 26,1898 – July 11, 1937) 

Ira Gershwin (December 6,1896 – August 17, 1983) 

Strike Up The Band ........................................................................................................................................... (arr. David Snyder) 

Rialto Ripples / Fascinating Rhythm ................................................................................................................... (arr. Kevin Cole) 

The Half Of It, Dearie, Blues ..................................................................................................................... (arr. Gershwin / Snyder) 

The Man I Love ............................................................................................................................................................. (arr. Snyder) 

‘S Wonderful ................................................................................................................................................................ (arr. Snyder) 

But Not For Me ............................................................................................................................................................. (arr. Snyder) 

Rhapsody In Blue ................................................................................................................................................ (arr. Ferde Grofé) 

Intermission 

Of Thee I Sing Overture ......................................................................................................................................... (arr. Don Rose) 

Slap That Bass ....................................................................................................................................... (arr. Johnny Green / Cole) 

Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off / They All Laughed ...................................................................................................... (arr. Cole) 

Love Is Here To Stay ................................................................................................................................................... (arr. Snyder) 

Summertime ................................................................................................................................................................. (arr. Snyder) 

(Lyrics by Ira Gershwin, Dubose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward) 

I Got Rhythm ................................................................................................................................................................ (arr. Snyder) 

Allegro Agitato, from Concerto in F ......................................................................................................................... (arr. Gershwin) 

George Gershwin, born in Brooklyn, New York on September 26, 1898, began his musical 

training at thirteen. At fifteen he left high school to work as a Tin Pan Alley “song plugger” and within 

three years he had seen his first song published. Although “When You Want ‘Em You Can’t Get ‘Em, 

When You’ve Got ‘Em You Don’t Want ‘Em” created little interest, George’s “Swanee,” popularized 

by Al Jolson in 1919, brought Gershwin his first real fame. In 1924, when George teamed up with his 

older brother Ira, “the Gershwins” became the dominant Broadway songwriters. This extraordinary 

collaboration led to a succession of musical comedies, among them Lady, Be Good! (1924), Oh, Kay! 

(1926), Funny Face (1927), Strike Up the Band (1927 & 1930), Girl Crazy (1930), and Of Thee I Sing 

(1931), the first musical comedy to win a Pulitzer Prize. Over the years, Gershwin songs have also 

been used in numerous films including Shall We Dance (1937), A Damsel in Distress (1937) and An 

American in Paris (1951). Later years produced the award-winning stage musicals My One and Only 

(1983) and Crazy for You (1992) which ran four years on Broadway, and the current Tony-winning 

show Nice Work if You Can Get It (2012). 

Starting with his early days as a composer of songs, Gershwin had ambitions to compose serious 

music. Asked by Paul Whiteman to write an original work for a special concert of modern music to be 

presented at Aeolian Hall in New York on February 12, 1924, Gershwin responded with the Rhapsody in Blue, and opened a new era in American 

music. In 1925, the eminent conductor Walter Damrosch commissioned Gershwin to compose a piano concerto for the New York Symphony 

Society. Many feel that the Concerto in F is Gershwin’s finest orchestral work. Others opt for his An American in Paris (1928) or his Second 

Rhapsody for piano and orchestra, which he introduced with himself as pianist with the Boston Symphony under Serge Koussevitzsky in 1932. 

In 1926 Gershwin came across DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy, and immediately recognized it as a perfect vehicle for a “folk opera” using blues 

and jazz idioms. Porgy and Bess (co-written with DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin) was the Gershwin brothers’ most ambitious 

undertaking, tightly integrating unforgettable songs with dramatic incident. Porgy and Bess previewed in Boston, and opened its Broadway run on 

October 10, 1935. The opera has had major revivals in each decade since its premiere, most recently this year on Broadway. 

In 1937, George Gershwin was at the height of his career. It was in Hollywood, while he was working on the score of The Goldwyn Follies, that 

George Gershwin collapsed and died of a brain tumor; he was not quite 39 years old. Countless people throughout the world, who knew Gershwin 

only through his work, were stunned by the news as if they had suffered a personal loss. Some years later, John O’Hara summed up the feelings 

that abide: “George Gershwin died July 11, 1937, but I don’t have to believe it if I don’t want to.”

Today Gershwin’s works are performed with greater frequency than they were during his lifetime. The songs and concert pieces are not in the least 

ephemeral, as a glance at the pages of any recording catalogue will quickly make evident. Certainly the trustees of Columbia University must have 

recognized this when they awarded George Gershwin a special posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1998, the centennial of his birth. 

Ira Gershwin, the first lyricist to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize – Of Thee I Sing, 1932 – was born in New 

York City on December 6, 1896. (His brother, George, with whom he was to make of Gershwin a hallmark 

for distinguished musical-comedy songs, was born twenty-one months later in Brooklyn.) While attending the 

College of the City of New York, Ira began demonstrating his lifelong interest in light verse and contributed droll 

quatrains and squibs to newspaper columnists. In 1918 while working as the desk attendant in a Turkish bath, 

he tentatively began a collaboration with his brother, and their “The Real American Folksong (Is a Rag)” was 

heard in Nora Baye’s Ladies First. Not wanting to trade on the success of his already famous brother, Ira soon 

afterward adopted the nom de plume of Arthur Francis, combining the names of his youngest brother Arthur 

and his sister Frances. Under the pen name in 1921 Ira supplied lyrics for his first Broadway show, Two Little 

Girls in Blue, with music by another newcomer, Vincent Youmans. 

After writing songs for three more years with a variety of composers Ira was ready in 1924 to begin the 

successful and lifelong collaboration with George and dropped the pseudonym. Before and after George’s 

death in 1937 Ira also collaborated with such composers as Harold Arlen (A Star is Born, 1954), Vernon Duke 

(The Ziegfield Follies of 1936), Kurt Weill (Lady in the Dark, 1941), Jerome Kern (Cover Girl, 1944) Harry Warren (The Barkleys of Broadway, 1949 

- the final Astaire / Rogers picture); Arthur Schwartz (Park Avenue, 1946) and Burton Lane (Give a Girl a Break, 1953). For his achievements in film 

scores Ira Gershwin was nominated three times for an Academy Award for the songs “They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” “Long Ago (and Far 

Away)” (his biggest song hit in any one year) and “The Man That Got Away.” In 1966 he received a Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of 

Maryland, confirming the judgement of so may literary admirers that his work was not only of the first rank, but that the Gershwin “standards” set new 

standards for the American musical theatre. 

In all the years after George’s death, Ira assiduously attended to the Gershwin legacy of songs, show and film scores, and concert works. He also 

annotated and donated material pertaining to their careers to the Library of Congress. On August 17, 1983, Ira Gershwin died peacefully at the 

“Gershwin Plantation,” the Beverly Hills home that since 1940 he had shared with Leonore, his wife of 56 years, to whom he had dedicated his 

unique compendium of lyrics, musings, observations and anecdotes: the critically acclaimed Lyrics on Several Occasions (1959, 1997). In 1985 the 

United States Congress awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to George and Ira Gershwin, only the third time in US history that songwriters had 

been so honored. 

~ Biographies adapted from Gershwin.com George and Ira Gershwin – the official website 

“America’s Pianist” Kevin Cole has delighted audiences with a repertoire that includes the best of 

20th century American music. Kevin Cole’s performances have prompted accolades from some of 

the foremost critics in America: “A piano genius...he reveals an understanding of harmony, rhythmic 

complexity and pure show-biz virtuosity that would have had Vladimir Horowitz smiling with envy,” 

wrote critic Andrew Patner. On Cole’s affinity for Gershwin: “When Cole sits down at the piano, you 

would swear Gershwin himself was at work… Cole stands as the best Gershwin pianist in America 

today,” writes Howard Reich, arts critic for the Chicago Tribune. 

Engagements for Cole include: sold-out performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the 

Hollywood Bowl, BBC Concert Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall, National Symphony at the Kennedy 

Center, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia 

Orchestra (London), Boston Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand 

Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, and many others. Kevin was featured soloist for the PBS special Gershwin at One Symphony 

Place with the Nashville Symphony. 

Kevin Cole is an award-winning musical director, arranger, composer, vocalist and archivist who garnered the praises of Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, 

E.Y. Harburg, Hugh Martin, Burton Lane, Stephen Sondheim, Marvin Hamlisch and members of the Jerome Kern and Gershwin families. Kevin 

has also worked with song writing legend Hugh Martin, who was vocal coach to Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, Judy Garland and many others. Kevin’s 

discography includes a Gramophone Musical Album of the Year (1995) for Gershwin’s Oh, Kay! with soprano Dawn Upshaw, his critically acclaimed 

solo piano disc, Cole Plays Gershwin and his vocal debut album In The Words Of Ira - The Songs of Ira Gershwin. 

www.kevincoleonline.com

Two-time Grammy Award winner and regional Emmy winner Sylvia McNair lays claim to a 25-year career in the 

musical realms of opera, oratorio, cabaret and musical theater. Her journey has taken her from the Metropolitan 

Opera to the Salzburg Festival, from the New York Philharmonic to the Rainbow Room, from the Ravinia Festival to 

The Plaza, from the pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal to the London Times. 

In 2009 she sang Guenevere in the Ravinia Festival’s Camelot, the role of Desiree in Sondheim’s A Little Night Music 

with Central City Opera, and did a star turn in American Opera Theater’s production of Songspiel, 19 songs by Kurt 

Weill. As a regular guest soloist with nearly all of the major American and European orchestras and opera houses, 

Sylvia has collaborated with an array of today’s most prominent conductors including Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Masur, 

Leonard Slatkin, André Previn, Neville Marriner and the late Robert Shaw. 

She has produced over 70 recordings ranging from Mozart arias with Sir Neville Marriner to CDs with André Previn. 

She was thrilled to sing the Bach B-minor Mass with the Vienna Philharmonic for Pope John Paul II at The Vatican, to 

sing for Hillary Clinton, and to perform at The US Supreme Court by invitation from Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. 

Sylvia McNair earned a Masters degree with Distinction from the Indiana University School of Music, received honorary doctorates from Westminster 

College (1997) and Indiana University (1998), and the Ohio Governor’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Arts and Entertainment (1999). She 

joined the prestigious voice faculty of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in 2006. In 2007, Sylvia received The Gaudium Award from The 

Breukelein Institute for “extraordinary and distinctive contributions to the arts and public life.” 

“This is definitely a star to watch.” (Anne Midgette, Washington Post) www.sylviamcnair.com 

Singer-dancer-choreographer Ryan VanDenBoom started performing at age three when he began taking dance 

lessons in his home state of Michigan. The following year he was introduced to tap. During his high school years he 

kept busy as a song and dance man in many musicals, including Singin’ in the Rain, where he recreated Gene Kelly’s 

original choreography. He was featured in the premiere of an original musical, A Shine On Your Shoes, written and 

directed by Leeds Bird with music direction/arrangements by Kevin Cole. 

A winner of numerous national dance competitions, he has danced at the L.A. Tap Festival. Ryan recently performed 

Morton Gould’s Tap Dance Concerto with Albany Symphony (NY) in the presence of the Gould Family. He is the only 

dancer performing the original choreography by legendary Broadway and Hollywood choreographer/dancer Danny 

Daniels. Mr. Daniels coached Ryan personally on this ground-breaking work with the assistance of tap dancing veteran 

Karl Warkentien. 

During his summers he has performed and choreographed for the Mac-Haydn Theatre (NY) season with shows including Chicago, Mame, Anything 

Goes and Damn Yankees, to name a few. As a vocalist, Ryan worked with vocal coach and songwriting legend Hugh Martin (Have Yourself A Merry 

Little Christmas, etc.), who has coached many stars including Lena Horne, Ethel Waters and Judy Garland. Ryan VanDenBoom is a recent graduate of 

the Cap 21 Musical Theatre program at New York University. 

Leslie Dala is the Music Director of the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Associate Conductor and Chorus Director 

with Vancouver Opera and the recently appointed Music Director of the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony 

Orchestra. This summer he stepped down as Music Director of the Prince George Symphony, which he led for eight 

years, earning distinction as the longest serving conductor in the organization’s 40-year history. A member of the 

Vancouver Opera music staff since 1996, he opened their 2011 season with West Side Story. Previously, Leslie 

conducted Rigoletto and The Threepenny Opera, and he has assisted on over 50 mainstage productions and has 

adapted numerous works for the Vancouver Opera In Schools program. 

Leslie has been a member of the music staff at L’Opera National du Rhin, the Santa Fe Opera and the Canadian 

Opera Company and he has been a frequent guest conductor with the UBC Opera Ensemble. Recent performances 

include guest conducting engagements with Soundstreams Canada in Toronto at Koerner Concert Hall, the Thirteen 

Strings Chamber Orchestra of Ottawa, and Haydn’s Creation and Les Noces by Stravinsky and Orff’s Catulli Carmina 

with the Vancouver Bach Choir and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. In 2011, Leslie conducted Lillian Alling 

by John Estacio for the Banff Summer Festival, and the Opening Night Gala for MusicFest Vancouver with Sarah 

McLachlan and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. This summer he will conduct Puccini’s Suor Angelica for the COSI program in Sulmona, Italy and 

next season he will lead Vancouver Opera’s productions of La Boheme and The Magic Flute. 2013 marks Leslie’s debut with Pacific Opera Victoria in 

Britten’s comic masterpiece, Albert Herring. 

“The importance of the conductor as commanding general can’t be overstated: Dala performed with courage and theatrical panache, ending his 

inaugural year in triumph — and with an implicit promise of further excitement to come.” (David Gordon Duke, Vancouver Sun)

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Touring and recording have played an important part of the VSO’s history. Most recently, the orchestra toured to great critical acclaim in Korea, 

Macau and China in 2008, and was the first Canadian symphony orchestra to perform at the prestigious Beijing Music Festival. This was followed 

by a successful Canadian tour in 2009 with concerts in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City. The VSO won a Grammy and a JUNO award 

in 2008 for its recording of the violin concertos of Walton, Korngold and Barber, with violinist James Ehnes and conducted by Maestro Bramwell 

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