From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V12 #25 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Sunday, November 1 2009 Volume 12 : Number 025 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- SW in A2 10/30/09 [capitoltee@comcast.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:57:42 +0000 (UTC) From: capitoltee@comcast.net Subject: SW in A2 10/30/09 Hi All, Another stellar night of music in Ann Arbor last night. Susan, joined by Julia Biber on cello, wsg Michelle Greener as opening act. Yeah, we stood outside for 2+ hours in the rain, but how can you put a price on a front row seat to such brilliance? Michelle was good...I admit, I just wanted the Susan part of the show to start, but Michelle was good, if a bit too talkative between songs. She did, however, look marvelous, in a polka-dotted wrap dress. Susan even commented on Michelle's high-heeled strappy red shoes (which Susan was wearing when she came out to meet-and-greet after the show, having commandeered them from Michelle). Susan and Julia opened with the song whose name I never get right. I know the title isn't 'Let it Happen', but that phrase is repeated a few times, so I'll just call it that. And if anybody can correct me, please do so! This was followed by 'Heaven So Small', featuring Julia on a fierce solo at the end. Brought the house down, with Susan exclaiming 'THAT'S how you play cello gospel!'. She spent some time after that voicing her guilty pride ('I shouldn't care!!') over Iowa's defeat of Michigan, and mentioned that a friend had sent her dirty lyrics to the UM fight song (Ron, that was YOU!), but she declined to perform them in the interest of good taste. They then did 'Our Father' and 'Did Trouble Me', which somehow led Susan to first talk about (and demonstrate) the tune 'Maybe This Time' from 'Cabaret, which then segued into her posing the argument that 'Let There Be Peace On Earth' is really a show tune, which she then started playing on the guitar. She started the singing but then stopped as many audience members took up the vocals. The schmaltz factor was too much for Julia, whose look of horror was priceless. Then Susan kicked it up a notch, taking over the vocals and demonstrating, sans guitar, just belting it out. She then moved to the piano and finished it off with a flourish. Too fun! She then donned a Phillies hat, while Julia donned a Yankees cap, and they bantered back and forth a bit in their respective exaggerated accents, and then Susan proclaimed that while she lived in Philly for years and loves it, her new favorite city is her current home town - and launched into 'Give Me Chicago'. BTW, my partner Michael thinks that now that Obama has his own song ('The Night We Won the War'), Susan should put Studs Terkel back in the 'Chicago' lyrics. 'This concludes the show tune segment of the show', she announced, and moved back to the guitar, where the first lyric of 'Let's Regret This in Advance' prompted a man in the first row to whoop loudly - which of course prompted Susan to stop and then proceed to flirt shamelessly with him. She did a trumpet riff ('the trumpet of remorse'), and ended the song by channeling Louis Armstrong. It was great! Then, 'I Can't Be New', and 'May I Suggest'. The lyric therein about 'the slowly setting sun' caused her to expound on her love of being in MI due to our position in the Eastern time zone, and she then quasi-performed 'Late in the Time Zone'. They they hammed it up in uproarious fashion, on 'Movie of My Life', at the end of which Susan said 'you're welcome'. She also said it's 'the type of song they play when you walk into hell'. They then moved to the 'Classics' portion of the evening, after Susan did a brief introduction to the concept. They did 'All the Lonely People', 'Mercy Mercy Me', 'I Listen to the Wind', and 'Turn, Turn, Turn'. Julia then did a solo piece, a contemporary composition by a composer whose name I didn't catch. They then took audience suggestions as to theme (daylight savings time, Air Supply, and too many others to remember), spent a few minutes consulting while we talked amongst ourselves, and then with great drama - ramrod-straight posture, preparing to play with great flourish, etc - presented an original 21st century contemporary classical piece composed just for us, the Ark audience. In addition to a snippet of 'I'm All Out of Love' by Air Supply, it also included 'Memories' from Cats, as well as lots of trading back and forth between piano and cello. It was a blast! As promised earlier in the week on Facebook, they ended the show with 'Hazy Shade of Winter'. Wow!! Instant standing-O at its conclusion, and it wasn't long before they came back out. Susan reminded us that she was a farm girl at heart, having won a hog-judging trophy at one point, which I guess qualifies her to do 'bad' music - they did 'I'm Bad', a new song I love. Staying on that 'bad' theme, Susan said that if we asked her on Facebook, she'd send out the dirty UM fight song lyrics, and that she'd do it her own self, vs. having her 18-year-old gay guy Facebook helper do it. She promised that if anybody received the dirty lyrics, they'd be from Susan herself - 'that's how you know you're talking to the artist!'. Julia then left the stage, and Susan moved to the piano, where she talked a bit about having premiered this song at the Ark the previous November, and then ended the show with 'The Night We Won the War'. I chatted with her briefly after the show - the first thing she did was show me that she was indeed wearing Michelle's red heels, and she confirmed that it was the Believer's own Ron Rosen who had supplied the fight song lyrics. It was still raining when we exited the Ark, and it was a truly crappy, long drive home, but it was worth it! BTW, did you know that the 'B' in 'GLBT' stands for 'bacon'?. For an explanation, see the article on Susan in the 10/22 issue of 'Between the Lines' http://pridesource.com/article.html?article=38293 Happy Listening, everybody, Suzie Tee HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V12 #25 ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message