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Introduced by Camille:
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree / Lullaby of Broadway / Rum and Coca cola (I have many kazoos)
This trio of songs-Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree, Lullaby of Broadway, and Rum and Coca Cola were made famous by Patty, Maxene and La Verne- the Andrews Sisters.   Called America’s Wartime Sweethearts, they helped define the Swing Era and  were frequent performers with the Glenn Miller band and with crooner Bing Crosby. 

We hope you enjoy listening to their close harmonies and bouncing rhythms that made them so popular. 

Introduced by  Jann

Tarekita 

Reena Esmail wrote TaReKiTa as a gift for a choir called Urban Voices Project, a choir of people who are currently or have recently experienced homelessness on Skid Row in Los Angeles. One day she decided to teach them about Indian rhythm. They enjoyed the lesson so much that she wanted to write them a piece that would use what she had taught them. The result was TaReKiTa. Practically speaking, this piece is based on sounds the Indian drum (the tabla) makes. The result is something like a scat would be in jazz: energetic, rhythmic music.

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Through the House Give Glimmering Light
Through the House Give Glimmering Light is the last piece in Amy Beach's Three Shakespeare Songs. Beach's thirty works for women's chorus are a significant part of her output. Women's musical clubs flourished in the years following the 1893 meeting of the Woman's Musical Congress at the Chicago World Fair, where Beach played a prominent role. She later credited the proliferation of women's clubs with spreading musical taste and fostering more frequent performance of music by women composers.

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And So It Goes is a song written by Billy Joel in 1983, though it was not released until six years later. Joel wrote the song about a doomed relationship with model Elle Macpherson. Due to their 15-year age difference, their relationship was dramatic. In 1983, Macpherson was about 19 years old while Joel was around 34. Joel dated Macpherson for only a brief time. In the original demo version, Joel sings the melody simply, accompanied by a simple piano backdrop, in a style very reminiscent of a hymn. At the 66th Annual Grammy Awards in 2024, when asked to name the definitive Billy Joel song, Joel said "And So It Goes."

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