Where does pianist Ethan Uslan find these gems? Another goody from our evening in the WGBH Fraser Performance Studio called “Downton Abbey Meets The Jazz Age.” exploring some music of the era, and featuring soprano Melinda Whittington.
His is a great – and surprinsingly risque! – tune from 1925 by MR. Vivian Ellis, a beloved Brit composer of the musical stage who’s barely known stateside. Save for this tune, thanks to it being in the repertoire of the “Last of the Red Hot Mamas” Sophie Tucker…
Video from our “Evening Inspired By Downton Abbey” in our WGBH Fraser Performance Studio. Melinda Whittington is the soprano giving a great reading of this bluesy Noël Coward number, with the ever-amazing Ethan Uslan as the pianist.
Still buzzing from the terrific performance at last night’s “Evening Inspired by Downton Abbey,” featuring soprano Melinda Whittington and pianist Ethan Uslan, playing classical, “jazz,” and other standards from the 1920’s in the WGBH Fraser Performance Studio.
And for an encore, since it was, after all, Chopin’s birthday and all, Ethan had to play one of his signature compositions. I explained to the Downton fans the title was inspired by what happened when poor Moseley the bumbling butler-turned-footman backs into an object d’art in the Crawley household….
Melinda & Ethan getting their Downton on…
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