The Glenn Miller Orchestra under Rick Gerber is at the Canberra Theatre

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The Glenn Miller Orchestra. Music director: Rick http://www.dolphinsjerseyofficial.com/shop-by-players-99-jason-taylor-jersey-c-1_50.html Gerber. Canberra Theatre. Saturday, September 23, 7.30pm. canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.
The Glenn Miller Orchestra is celebrating its 80th anniversary and its musical director Rick Gerber is almost as old himself.
"I'm 75, and I'm still in really good health," he says.
"I'm not on any kind of medication."
He's been a licensed pilot since 1975 and recently passed the fitness exam once again with flying colours "99 per cent" and has no desire to retire.
"Retire to what? I have to do something!"
For now, that "something" is an Australian tour, and as part of it he will be coming to Canberra for the fourth time with musicians and solo singers to perform many of the classic hits of the Glenn Miller Orchestra in their original arrangements.They will also sing songs by the Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Vera Lynn. There are also performances by the Broadway Swing Dancers
During the 1930s and '40s, Glenn Miller was among the most popular of the big band leaders and his band's hits such as In the Mood, Moonlight Serenade and Chattanooga Choo-Choo still evoke the sound and feel of the classic swing era for audiences.
Miller (1904-44) worked as a trombonist, arranger and composer for a number of different bands before forming his first band in 1937 though it was the second, formed in March the following year, that became the lasting success. Between 1939 and 1942 Miller was the most popular bandleader in the US, scoring 17 top 10 hits in 1939, 31 in 1940 (more than three times as many as the second most popular artist, Tommy Dorsey), and 11 in 1941 (making him top recording artist for the second year in a row).
In September 1942, the first full year the US was in World War II, Miller broke up the band and joined the Army Air Force with an officer's commission, organising a service band that performed at military camps and war-bond rallies as well http://www.officialbearsshops.com/shop-by-players-ted-larsen-jersey-c-2_33.html as hosting a weekly radio series. He had two more top 10 hits in 1943 and took his band to Britain in 1943 where he continued to entertain troops and do radio broadcasts.
Miller was flying to Paris when the aeroplane on which he was travelling disappeared over the English Channel, He was 40 years old..
Gerber spends three or four months every year touring internationally with the orchestra, bringing the big band sound to audiences around the world with renditions of Tuxedo Junction, Little Brown Jug and Pennsylvania 6-5000.
They also perform many shows in the US, both public performances and private gigs.
"The most fun I have ever had was Rod Stewart's 70th birthday party. He's a wonderful guy," Gerber says.
"He got up and sang with the band."
Gerber even had a chat with the veteran rocker over Diet Pepsi-Colas, Stewart's beverage of choice nowadays.
"This is the music he'd grown up with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie and especially Glenn Miller."
There are, in fact, two official Glenn Miller Orchestras in the US, the West (this one) and the East.
"We don't really cross each other's paths," Gerbers says, "but there's no bad blood."
One of the solo singers who is performing on this tour started out singing with the east coast band.
"She's 22 and very expert she fit like a glove."
When not working or travelling Brandon LaFell Womens Jersey Gerber likes to watch classic musicals.
"I collect old movies on DVD," he says.
"Last night I watched Doris Day in the 1953 movie Calamity Jane."
 
Posted 16 Sep 2017

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