<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'>The press release follows as text, and is attached as a doc, along with photos of soprano Ida Faiella and pianist David Lahm. Please let me know if you have any follow-up requests.
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE</b></font></div>
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CONTACTS:</b></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, serif"><b>Pat Lamb
or Ida Faiella</b></font></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, serif"><b>(518)
727-4933 (802) </b></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, serif"><b>345-8349</b></font></font><font face="Arial, serif"><b>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#0000ff"><font face="Arial, serif"><u><b>patalamb@aol.com</b></u></font></font><font face="Arial, serif"><u><b> </b></u></font><font face="Arial, serif"><b>
vtdiva@aol.com</b></font></div>
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<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in">“<font face="Arial, serif"><b>PICK
YOURSELF UP” AT L’ENSEMBLE CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT SUNDAY, APRIL
10, 3 P.M. </b></font><b style="font-family: Arial, serif; font-size: 10pt;">AT
BENNINGTON’S OLDCASTLE THEATRE</b></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, serif"><b>SHAFTSBURY,
VT (March 29, 2016) -- </b></font><font face="Arial, serif">Celebrating
its third season in residence at Oldcastle Theatre, r</font><font face="Arial, serif">enowned
L’Ensemble chamber musical group will present “Pick Yourself Up,”
an afternoon of songs with lyrics by Broadway and Hollywood greats
Dorothy Fields and Sheldon Harnick, Sunday, April 10 at 3 p.m.
Oldcastle Theatre is located at 331 Main St., Bennington, VT. </font>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; background: #ffffff"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Fields
and Harnick, the subjects of “Pick Yourself Up,” reside at the
very top-tier of American Songbook luminaries. One of the first
successful Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood female songwriters, Fields
wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. (In what
would be called a “casting coup” in one of those 1930s' movies,
Fields' son David Lahm will be the pianist for April 10 concert.)
</font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">With
Jerome Kern, she worked on the </font></font></font><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta_(1935_film)"><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">movie
version of "Roberta</font></font></span></font></a><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2"><i>”</i></font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">
and also on their greatest success, “Swing Time,” with its
classic "</font></font></font><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_You_Look_Tonight"><font color="#000000"><span style="text-decoration: none"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">The
Way You Look Tonight</font></font></span></font></a><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">"
earning the Fields/Kern team an Oscar for Best Song. Her many
Broadway successes include “Redhead” and “Sweet Charity.”
With her brother Herbert, she wrote the book for “Annie Get Your
Gun.”</font></font></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">At
age 91, Harnick is not resting on laurels that include three Tony
Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. This theatre season alone, he has been
deeply involved with five productions of his work, including the
current celebrated Broadway revival of “Fiddler on the Roof”; the
just-opened Broadway revival of “She Loves Me”; a reconstructed
“Rothschild & Sons,” recently performed off-Broadway; “A
Wonderful Life,” a 2015 production at the Goodspeed Opera House;
and a new opera </font><font size="2">about
Lady Bird Johnson (which will have its premiere in Texas this month).</font></font></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font face="Arial, serif"><font size="2">The
performers at the April 10 concert will be Ida Faiella, Soprano;
David Lahm, Piano; Bruce Williamson, Woodwinds; and David Finck,
Bass.</font></font> </font></font>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; background: #ffffff"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Harnick
provided this personal message for the L'Ensemble concert program,
“</font></font></font><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2">Every
lyricist hopes to have his work performed by singers who deeply
understand the words they are singing. And when a singer not only
understands those words but conveys them to the audience with
consummate artistry, a lyricist feels blessed. Such an artist is Ida
Faiella. When Ida informed me that she was devoting a program to my
work and that of Dorothy Fields, I couldn't have been more pleased.
If Dorothy were still here, I know that she'd feel as blessed as I
do!"</font></font></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; background: #ffffff"><font face="Arial, serif">Tickets
for both concerts are $25 and $10 for students. </font><font face="Arial, serif"><b>Tickets
are available at </b></font><a href="http://www.oldcastletheatre.org/">www.oldcastletheatre.org</a><font face="Arial, serif"><b>
or by calling (802) 447-0564.</b></font></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font face="Arial, serif">Founded in
the mid 1970s, L’Ensemble's musical mission has always been to
stretch the definition of chamber music. L'Ensemble performs all
facets of chamber music from Bach's unaccompanied sonatas to
fully-staged productions. Under the direction of founder and artistic
director Ida Faiella, L'Ensemble's repertoire includes the classics
and much more, from jazz-influenced works to cabaret arrangements of
the standards by such composers as Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim,
George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein. Visit the group’s web site</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif">
at </font><a href="http://www.lensembleconcerts.org/"><font face="Arial, sans-serif">www.lensembleconcerts.org</font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif">.</font></div>
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