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Preview of a review: The Four Freshmen
Published: 2/12/2011 3:56 PM
Last Modified: 2/12/2011 3:56 PM

The Four Freshmen perform Saturday night, the second of their two concerts with the Signature Symphony, at the VanTrease PACE.

The full review will run in Monday's Tulsa World. Here's a bit of it:


Another thing that sets the Four Freshmen apart from other vocal groups of the era is that it has always been a group of instrumentalists as well as vocalists, and a number of songs were performed by the group alone, with Eichenberger on guitar, bass vocalist Bob Ferreira on drums, baritone Vince Johnson on electric bass and tenor Curtis Calderon on trumpet and flugelhorn.
The group’s playing was typically muted — this is still a vocal group, first and foremost — with the exception of the lively “Something’s Gotta Give,” in which of the players took a brief solo, and “There Will Never Be Another You,” highlighted by one of Calderon’s most energetic trumpet solos and a bass-and-scat-singing turn by Johnson.
Other high points were their rhythmically original arrangement of “Route 66,” and an almost a cappella version of “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows,” with the quartet around a single microphone. It was a beautiful song beautifully done, with little more than four voices in perfect harmony.



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James D. Watts Jr. has lived in Oklahoma for most his life, even though he still has people saying to him, "Don't sound like you're from around these parts." A University of Oklahoma Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Watts has received the Governor Arts Award, Harwelden Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Beth Macklin Award for his writing. Before coming to the Tulsa World, Watts worked for the Tulsa Tribune.

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