Joseph Rubin
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Joseph Rubin
Freddy Martin
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FABULOUS FORTIES PUBLICITY TEXT
Flashback to the Fabulous Forties with Joseph Rubin and His Orchestra and vocalist Jay Spencer! Hear your favorite 1940s hits “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree,” and “I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts,” along with a Cavalcade of Bands tribute to 26 of the greatest big bands including Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Duke Ellington, and Artie Shaw.
For the first time in decades, the concert will feature the original arrangements of Freddy Martin and His Orchestra. Freddy Martin was renowned for his smooth tenor saxophone playing and his swinging arrangements of classics like Flight of the Bumblebee (Bumble Boogie), Grieg’s Piano Concerto, Liszt’s Second Hungarian Rhapsody and, of course his theme Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concert in B-Flat re-titled “Tonight We Love.”
An Ohio native, Freddy Martin was raised in a Springfield orphanage and returned to his birthplace of Cleveland for high school. Guy Lombardo mentored Martin, setting him on the path to musical success. Martin had a 50-year career including a twenty-five year engagement at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. Among those who got their start with Martin’s band were Tommy Dorsey, Russ Morgan and vocalist Merv Griffin.
Don’t miss this musical excursion through the decade when swing was king!
JOSEPH RUBIN AND HIS ORCHESTRA BIOGRAPHY
An expert on American popular music, Joseph Rubin and His Orchestra specialize in “living history” concerts and recreating the music of 1880-1949 in a historically accurate manner. Recent concerts include tributes to Ted Lewis, Hal Kemp, Isham Jones, and Clyde McCoy Orchestras performing their original 1930s and 40s arrangements for the first time in decades. Mr. Rubin and his Orchestra commemorated the centennial of the Armistice with a tour of Over There: The Music of World War One in November 2018. Mr. Rubin restored original orchestrations from the archives of Grammy Award winning historian Michael Feinstein for a tribute to one of the most popular radio stars of the 1930s, Rubinoff and His Violin. Other favorite concert recreations include Victor Herbert’s 22nd Regiment Band 1897 Inaugural Grand Concert for Canton’s own President William McKinley and An Evening with Sigmund Romberg with a 40-piece concert orchestra. For upcoming shows: www.josephnrubin.com