Young @ Heart
| Young @ Heart | |
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| Seat: |
 Northampton, MA
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| Founding: | 1982 |
| Genus: | Rock , punk , pop |
| Head : | Bob Cilman |
| Voices : | approx. 30 |
| Website : | www.youngatheartchorus.com |
Young @ Heart ( Y @ H ) is an American amateur choir. The choir director is the founder Bob Cilman, the cast consists of around 30 singers between the ages of 70 and 100 and made the formation of senior choirs known. The choir has a repertoire of arrangements of rock , punk and pop music , such as songs by Talking Heads , The Clash , Manfred Mann , Rolling Stones , John Lennon .
The disconcerting and amusing mixture of the sometimes considerable musical quality, the physical frailty of the singers, their enthusiasm and action-like performance, as well as classical and contemporary songs of modern light music, whose well-known texts get completely new content-related aspects in the context of the performers, received an extraordinary reception.
history
Bob Cilman and Judith Sharpe organized a vocal group in 1982 at a Northampton, Massachusetts , elderly home called Walter Salvo House . In 1983 the group performed for the first time as a choir with the program Stompin 'at the Salvo .
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, several larger productions were made in collaboration with other bands, such as Boola Boola Bimini Bop with a Latino break dance group, 1988 Oh No a Condo with a group of Cambodian folk and punk Artist, and in 1991 Louis Lou I - A Revolting Musical (a piece about the French Revolution with songs by Frank Sinatra ) with Roy and No Theater , with whom the choir had worked from the beginning. In 1997 there was an appearance at the R Festival in Rotterdam, followed by 12 further tours in Europe, Australia and Canada between 1997 and 2004, with the no-theater plays Road to Heaven and Road to Nowhere , and End of the Road between 2009 and 2011.
The concert program of the choir Alive and Well was captured in a BBC documentary by Walker George, which won numerous prizes such as the Rose d'Or Special Price 2007, the Gilde Film Prize Documentation 2009, the Atlanta Film Festival Audience Award 2009 and the Warsaw International Film Festival Audience Award 2009 received.
The choir's more important soloists included Diamond Lillian Aubrey, Eileen Hall († 2007), Warren Clark, Ralph Intorcio, and Fred Knittle († 2009), the oldest active singer was Anna Main (* 1889), who was until she was 99 sang along in the choir. In 2011 the cast comprised 30 singers born between 1928 and 1939 as well as a 7-member accompanying band.
Discography
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Mostly live . 2008, Rhino Records
- Playlist (with an overview of the range of the repertoire): You Can't Always Get What You Want ( The Rolling Stones ); Schizophrenia ( Sonic Youth ); Jealous Guy ( John Lennon ); Ruby Tuesday (The Rolling Stones); One ( U2 ); Please Send Me Someone to Love / Please, Please, Please / Shotgun ( Percy Mayfield / James Brown / Junior Walker & the All Stars ); Do Something Different ( Brave Combo ); Fake Plastic Trees ( Radiohead ); Every Breath You Take ( The Police ); Helpless ( Neil Young / Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young ); Somebody to Love ( Jefferson Airplane ); Hey Ya ( André 3000 / OutKast ); Fix You ( Coldplay ); Should I Stay or Should I Go ( The Clash ); Forever Young ( Bob Dylan ); Walk on the Wild Side ( Lou Reed ); Yes We Can Can ( Allen Toussaint / Pointer Sisters )
media
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Young @ Heart , Director: Stephen Walker, Producer: Sally George; Camera: Ed Marritz, Simon Poulter, Editor: Chris King; Fox Searchlight Pictures, UK 2008
- The film includes I Wanna Be Sedated ( Ramones ), Dancing in the Dark ( Bruce Springsteen ); Golden Years ( David Bowie ); Schizophrenia (Sonic Youth); I Got You (I Feel Good) ( James Brown ); Fix You ( Coldplay ); Road to Nowhere ( Talking Heads ); as bonus tracks: Stayin 'Alive ( Bee Gees ); I Will Survive ( Gloria Gaynor )
Web links
- Website of the choir
- Young @ Heart Performances 1982-2011 (pdf, 48 KB; English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Bob Cilman: Our Story ... (No longer available online.) Youngatheartchorus.com, archived from the original on May 16, 2010 ; accessed on May 10, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tatiana Morales: Rockin 'With Young @ Heart Chorus: From The Mouths Of Elderly, Outkast Tunes . In: The Early Show . CBS News. April 16, 2005. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
- ↑ Stephen Holden : The Walker George documentary "Young @ Heart". (No longer available online.) New York Times / youngatheartchorus.com, archived from the original on May 16, 2010 ; accessed on May 10, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ John Berman, Melinda Arons: Young at Heart Chorus: 'They Don't Expect Us to Sing Rock' . In: Nightline . ABC News. April 9, 2008. Retrieved January 30, 2009.
- ↑ Stephen Walker: Young @ Heart (en) , BBC. 2008.
- ↑ Anthony Breznican: 'Young @ Heart' singer dies at age 83 (en) , USA Today. 2006. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
- ↑ Meet the Chorus. (No longer available online.) Youngatheartchorus.com, archived from the original on May 7, 2010 ; accessed on May 10, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
