Bio

Andrei Strizek is a first-year EdD student in Music Education at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign. He holds an assistantship at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, in the Events office, and in the School of Music Student Teaching office.

Andrei is an active performer, and is in demand as a music director and keyboardist for many musical theatre productions.

He earned his Bachelor's of Music Education from UW-Eau Claire in 2005, after studying with Dr Jerry Young, Dr Mark Heidel, Dr Randal Dickerson, and Dr Donald Patterson, and his Master's of Music Education from the University of Illinois in 2011.

He holds a wide range of interests, from musical theatre to jazz and popular music history to aesthetics, from the use of technology in education to audience development.

Please contact Andrei if you have any questions, comments or suggestions!

Read here for a full bio, or download Andrei's CV.

« Musical Advent Calendar, Day 25: Joy | Main | Musical Advent Calendar: Two-Fer Friday! »
Friday
Dec242010

Musical Advent Calendar Christmas Eve Bonus

DateFriday, December 24, 2010 at 2:30PM

My Mission: One holiday-themed, non-carol song every day between now & Christmas. It's my own version of an Advent calendar. I may succeed, I may fail, but there will at least be some good music posted ... music you won't hear at the mall, that hopefully won't make you end up looking like him. ----->

(image via wikipedia.org)Your Christmas Eve Bonus: "Turkey Lurkey Time" from Promises, Promises, by Burt Bacharach & Hal David. (This performance is taken from their Tony Awards performance. Make sure you watch the version from the campy film Camp, which is almost completely true to the original choreography, and where I first fell in love with this song. See below for some great commentary on it from Seth Rudetsky.)

You also can't pass up Seth Rudetsky's great deconstruction of the above film clip:

(You can see previous songs here. Email me or comment below if you have a tune suggestion!)

AuthorAndrei | Comment1 Comment |
tagged , , , , , ,

Reader Comments (1)

Very entertaining, but I don't think I'll be buying the Turkey Lurkey Christmas albums any time soon.

October 5, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterDebbie

PostPost a New Comment

Enter your information below to add a new comment.

My response is on my own website »
Author Email (optional):
Author URL (optional):
Post:
 
Some HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>

Notify me of follow-up comments via email.