The Gaulitana: A Festival of Music has now passed into its pen-ultimate concert for the 2008 version. The eleventh such concert in this Festival of Music was presented this evening at 8.00 p.m. the venue being Palazzo Margherita in Sannat and the performer being Britt Smallze from the U.S.A. It must be said that Britt did the concert in spite of not feeling well on the day, so congratulations are in order, especially the huge success of the evening despite all the difficulties!
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Britt hails from the Western United States, where she spent much of her youth studying music and theatre. She is a seasoned performer, having exhibited her talents throughout the United States and abroad. Her vast experience includes piano and vocal performance, improvisation comedy, musical theatre as well as playwriting. She has produced and directed her original works onstage, and finds great pleasure in writing musical plays for young audiences. She has devoted much of her education to the arts, having studied privately with professional piano and vocal coaches throughout her lifetime, as well as a formidable formal education.
Britt studied theatre and literature in London, England, and has earned an Associate Degree in Theatre, a Bachelors degree in Music with emphasis in media music and songwriting. Britt was seen by audiences in the Salt Lake City Conference Center Theatre during the 2002 Winter Olymics, and has received numerous awards for her work in stage plays. Her favourite roles include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (for which she received the Best Actress Award), Cinderella in Into the Woods, the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, among many, and many others.
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She has also worked on the directorial side of theatre and has worked as musical director of numerous theatrical productions.
Britt has also discovered a passion for helping troubled youth, and has worked professionally as a drama and music therapist – helping adolescents to find healing through the arts.
She has recorded two original albums with her cabaret band, Tuesday Night Super Club, and is hoping that a third album will soon be in the making.
For her concert this evening, Britt had prepared a varied programme of popular songs that included:
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New York, New York – music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb;
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How About You from Babes on Broadway, music by Burton Lane, lyrics by Ralph Freed;
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Cabaret from Cabaret, by Kander and Ebb;
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz, music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Edgar ’Yip’ Harburg;
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Summertime from Porgy and Bess, music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Du Bose Heyward;
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Embraceable You, music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin;
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Somebody Loves Me by George Gershwin;
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Strike Up the Band, by George and Ira Gershwin;
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Solitude, music and lyrics by Duke Ellington / Eddie De Lange / Irving Mills;
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Ain’t Misbehavin’, and Honeysuckle Rose, both from Ain’t Misbehavin’, music by Thomas ’Fats’ Waller and lyrics by Andy Razaf;
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Don’t Cry For Me Argentina from Evita, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice.
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Lady is a Tramp from Babes in Arms, music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart;
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Would’t It Be Loverly, The Rain In Spain and On the Street Where You Live, all from My Fair Lady, music by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner;
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How Deep is Your Love, music and lyrics by Barry / Robin /Maurice, brothers Gibb [The BeeGees];
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Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim;
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Girl From Ipanema, Muisic by Anonio Carlos Jobim and lyrics by Vincius De Moraes;
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So Nice, music and lyrics by Marcos Valle and Paolo Sergio Valle – (English lyrics by Norman Gimbel);
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Misty, music by Errol Garner and lyrics by Johnny Burke;
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Love is a Many-Splendored Thing from Love is a Many Splendored Thing, music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster;
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All of Me, music and lyrics by Seymour Simons and Gerald Marks; and lastly
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If, music and lyrics by David Gates.
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During this very enjoyable concert Britt was also accompanied by Franz Frank on the piano, Jean Noël Attard on the violin, and, Herr Gerhard Huber (Suzanne Anatchkova’s father) on the viola. Herr Huber volunteered to take Frank Camilleri ’s place as he was indisposed. Frank was supposed to have played the violincello.
The Gaulitana: A Festival of Music comes to a close tomorrow with the Sacred Finale held at the Gozo Cathedral at 8.00 pm by the Gaulitanus Choir. Afterwards there will be a reception for the guests.
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