Music lovers are invited on a nostalgic musical journey accompanied by the enduring music of Irving Berlin when “I Love a Piano” comes to the Yavapai College Performance Hall on Saturday, March 29, 7:30 p.m. The show is presented by Yavapai College Community Events and co-sponsored by The Daily Courier, KKLD 95.9 FM, the Yavapai Gaming Agency and the Performing Arts Charitable Endowment (PACE).
Tickets for this show are $35, $33 and $31. Tickets are available online at www.tickets.com (search for “Yavapai College”). Tickets may also be purchased at the YC Community Events Ticket Office (928-776-2000; toll-free 1-877-928-4253), located in the Lobby of the YC Performance Hall, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Yavapai College Performance Hall is located on the Prescott campus at 1100 E. Sheldon St.
“I Love a Piano” is an enchanting musical journey spanning seven decades of American history as seen through the perceptive and hopeful eyes of Irving Berlin, a man about whom composer Jerome Kern once said, “Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American Music!”
The story line, inspired by the famous Berlin ditty of the title, follows a piano that passes through several owners, beginning in the Tin Pan Alley period at the start of Berlin’s career and ending during the late 1950s. This story-telling device allows for the use Berlin’s popular favorites to illuminate 20th Century American life.
The show features a live band and six triple-threat performers delivering more than 60 Berlin hits, including "There's No Business Like Show Business," "Puttin' On The Ritz," "God Bless America" and "White Christmas." With soaring singing, energetic dancing, classy designs and period costumes, “I Love a Piano” captures the spirit of America from the Ragtime rhythms of the early 20th century through the innocent optimism of the 1950s.
Writing for the Los Angeles Times, critic David C. Nichols wrote, “I knew 15 minutes in that I was thoroughly enjoying ‘I Love a Piano’ – by the ending, I was in love. Blame it on Berlin….”
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