Sno-King Chorale ends season with a bang June 13
Published 10:19 pm Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The 100-voice Sno-King Community Chorale’s season ends with a bang June 13 as it presents a concert version of the classic Broadway musical, “Annie Get Your Gun,” as well as a guest appearance by The Brothers Four at the Edmonds Center for the Arts.
“We know this is going to be a sellout,” said Chorale Artistic Director Frank DiMiero, “so we added a matinee performance.”
With lyrics and music by Irving Berlin, “Annie Get Your Gun” tells the fictionalized story of famed sharpshooter Annie Oakley, star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show in the late 19th century. The 1946 Broadway production was revived twice and was made into a 1950 MGM film musical as well as television versions. Popular songs from the show include “There’s No Business Like Show Business”, “Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly” and “You Can’t Get a Man with a Gun.”
One of the Northwest’s most long-lived and popular musical acts, The Brothers Four appear as guest artists with the Chorale, performing their musical million-sellers including “Greenfields,” “Yellow Bird,” “If I Had A Hammer,” and “The Green Leaves of Summer.”
Since the early 1960s, The Brothers Four — fraternity brothers at the University of Washington — have played thousands of college concerts, sung for four different U.S. Presidents at the White House, and toured dozens of foreign countries. They were pioneers in the “folk revival” with their all-acoustic presentation of guitars, banjo, mandolin, upright bass, and the trademark blend of their four voices.
