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American Songbook
Jazz stylist Shahida Nurullah returns to the Pops with the greatest songs from Hollywood and Broadway. Detroit’s silky-toned diva of swing sings the immortal hits of Gershwin, Rogers and Hart, Cole Porter and Ellington with all her eloquence and class.
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Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 2:30 p.m.
Chrysler Theatre
John Morris Russell, Conductor
Shahida Nurullah, Vocalist
Calixa Lavallée - O Canada
Meredith Willson - “76 Trombones” from Music Man
Rogers & Hammerstein - Oklahoma!
John Davenport / Eddie Cooley - Fever
Stephen Sondheim - Send in the Clowns
Cole Porter - From This Moment On
George Gershwin - Selections from Porgy & Bess
Leonard Bernstein - Selections from West Side Story
Vernon Duke - Autumn in New York
Harry M. Woods - What A Little Moonlight Will Do
Jerome Kern/ Otto Harbach - Yesterdays
Henry Mancini - Peter Gunn
Frederick Loewe / Alan Jay Lerner - Selections from Brigadoon
Alan & Marilyn Bergman /
Michel Legrand - The Way He Makes Me Feel
Fats Waller / Harry Brooks /
Andy Razaf - Ain’t Misbehavin’
Harold Arlen - Lydia
Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart - Lady is a Tramp
programme subject to change
Shahida Nurullah
Shahida Nurullah has a right to sing the blues. Considering she lost both her parents as a teenager, raised her brother when she was practically a child herself, and suffered debilitating injuries in an accident that nearly ended her life.
She sings the blues so beautifully.
She also sings jazz, samba, bossa nova, show tunes, and more. Her vocal talent surpasses the challenge of any music in the popular American songbook. Not to mention challenging the language barrier to sing in three different languages. Her skill has wowed audiences from her native Detroit to New York to Paris to Amsterdam and further.
When internationally lauded pianist Geri Allen created the band Open On All Sides, she chose Shahida to be her vocalist. When the band toured without the alto saxophonist from Allen’s critically acclaimed recording, In the Middle, Shahida sang the alto lines.
Shahida’s vocal talent has been praised in Downbeat magazine, the New York Times, the Detroit Free Press and Finland’s Rytmi magazine, which included her name in a poll alongside such legends as Sarah Vaughan and fellow Detroiter Betty Carter.
Like everything else, Shahida has been more than equal to the task, returning to the stage with a triumphant appearance at the Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival and numerous southeast Michigan club appearances and even winning a starring role in a staging of the musical play After Hours: Great Legends! Great Music!
In spite of her challenges Shahida has maintained a beautiful spirit and joie de vivre. And she now carries some of the coolest canes that ever assisted the stroll and strut of anyone. Each of them has a story of its own.
| Box | A | B | C | D | |
| Adult | $85 | $56 | $39 | $29 | $13 |
| Senior (60+) | $85 | $56 | $36 | $23 | $13 |
| Student/Youth | $42 | $28 | $18 | $14 | $6 |
