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At 40, a View from the Top

As the spring flowers begin to blossom, the Art Mob’s 40th anniversary concert program begins to take shape. We’ve got the songs and we’ve got the order in which we’ll sing them, and some of them are sounding like music in our Monday night rehearsals.

The Mob is like a shark that must move forward to keep breathing, so we’re not looking to the past for our anniversary program: there is more new material than old, and we can once again guarantee—as always!—that you will hear music you’ve never heard before and may never hear again. We’re willing to bet that the number of living ears that have enjoyed the strains of When George III Was King, Over the Top for Jesus, or I’ll Do It All Over Again, divided by two, times the square root of all the vintage music videos on YouTube, is basically nobody. On the other hand, we’ve salted the program with a few popular favorites like As Time Goes By and You’re the Top, in world-premiere Art Mob exclusive arrangements.

In fact, there are no fewer than thirteen Mob arrangements on the list, some of which are reprises (Connie’s Come Home, Father, Dean’s Ruby), but most of which are brand new for this concert. Bernadette makes her Mob arranging debut, joining our veterans Dean, Connie, and Hannah.

It’s a bit late for us to take on new singers for this season, but we do hope you’ll try out for the next one. Male voices—a risky term to use in the gender-contentious present, but one still current in the world of vocal music—are in particu larly short supply, but that doesn’t mean you should stop reading if you’re an alto or soprano. We’d love to hear from you, and our corps of arrangers would be able to add more divisi to the parts.

Remember: Friday May 17 and Saturday May 18 at 8 pm, and Sunday May 19 at 3 pm. Friday and Sunday are at Ronald Feldman Gallery, 31 Mercer Street; Saturday is at Tenri Cultural Institute, 43A West 13th Street. In both venues you’ll get to see brilliant art while you listen to our enchanting music. Yes, this is a lot to remember. That’s why we wrote it all down for you.


Save Those Dates

Where does the time go?

Just yesterday it was August, hot as blazes. Suddenly it’s harvest moons, Halloween, and long underdrawers.

The Mob has been quiet but busy, gestating new music and more, and preparing for our December concert series: In Gut We Trust!

SAVE THE DATES!

In Gut We Trust! December 14, 15, 16! )

(Honestly, when we came up with the theme last May, this writer thought it would celebrate instinct and feelings, but as it’s turned out, we’re mostly singing about food and eating. And agita.)

By the time we’re ready for the concerts

SAVE THE DATES!

In Gut We Trust! December 14, 15, 16! )

I say, by the time we’re ready, we’ll know our post-election fates and whether eating—make that “stress eating”—will still be worthwhile. Or whether, as one of our songs says, we’ll get pie in the sky, by and by.

The Art Mob archivist has been busy, too. Now you can steep your senses in past recordings of glorious Art Mob tunes, in the bath or whenever convenient for you, on SoundCloud.

In addition to highlights from our latest, “Keep a Lid on It!,” featured albums are: the immortal “The Best Laid Planets”; the timeless “Pigments of Our Imagination”; the ethereal “How Can We Keep from Singing?”; and the unexpected “FlashMob.”  Click those titles, or gosh, just go to our entire trove of albums HERE.  We’ll keep adding to this collection until they demand more money.

Keep an eye out for sneak peeks of our forthcoming program and more treasures from the archives.

And don’t forget to

SAVE THE DATES!

In Gut We Trust! December 14, 15, 16! )