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MUSICAL SELECTIONS
The evening's program was recorded live at New York University's Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
"Libiamo" from "La Traviata"
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young
"It Don't Mean A Thing"
Music and lyrics by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young
"Celeste Aida" from "Aïda"
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Antonio Ghislazoni
Thomas Young
"Bring Him Home" from "Les Misérables"
Music and lyrics by Claude-Michel Schonberg, Herbert Kretzmer, and Alain Boublil
Rodrick Dixon
"Home"
Music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls
Victor Trent Cook
New York Medley
"New York, New York (A Helluva Town)"
Music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
"New York State of Mind"
Music and lyrics by Billy Joel
"New York, New York"
Music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young
"Fly Me to the Moon"
Music and lyrics by Bart Howard
Rodrick Dixon
"When Did You Leave Heaven?"
Music and lyrics by Walter Bullock and Richard Whiting
Thomas Young
"Mr. Bojangles"
Music and lyrics by Jerry Jeff Walker
Victor Trent Cook
Soul Medley
"Georgia On My Mind"
Music and lyrics by Hoagy Charmichael
Thomas Young
"Change Is Gonna Come"
Music and lyrics by Sam Cooke
Rodrick Dixon
"Respect"
Music and lyrics by Otis Redding
Victor Trent Cook
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"
Music and lyrics by Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield
Thomas Young
"I Wish"
Music and lyrics by Stevie Wonder
Rodrick Dixon
"Shining Star"
Music and lyrics by P.J. Bailey, Larry Dunn, and Maurice White
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young
"Stayin' Alive"
Music and lyrics by Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young
Spritual Medley
"Poor Wayfaring Stranger"
"Listen to the Lambs"
"City Called Heaven"
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young
"Luck Be A Lady"
Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser
Thomas Young
"Di Quella Pira" from "Il Trovatore"
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano
Rodrick Dixon
"Birdland"
Music and lyrics by Jon Hendricks and Joseph Zawinul
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young
"Spoken Word"
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young
"A Dream"
Music and lyrics by Bunny DeBarge
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young
"Give Me A Clean Heart"
Music and lyrics by Margaret Pleasant Douroux
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young
"When the Saints Go Marching In"
Traditional
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young
"I Need You to Survive"
Music and lyrics by David Frazier
Victor Trent Cook, Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young
Top banner photos: Cook, Dixon, and Young in performance and the American Theater Orchestra. |
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In addition to performing, Thomas Young is a music professor at New York's Sarah Lawrence College. |
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The son of a preacher, Rodrick Dixon began singing and playing piano at his father's church. |
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