Pops Shows
All programs feature Matt on Piano, Saxophone, & Vocals, and can be performed with Matt acting as both conductor and performer/host, OR if orchestra has its own conductor Matt can be strictly the performer/host!
As heard on SiriusXM's Siriusly Sinatra Channel, and Matt's recently released CD/Recording of the same name. A unique tribute to the music of Frank Sinatra, as well as a personal tribute to Matt's legendary Jazz singer mom, Mavis Rivers, who was personally signed by Mr. Sinatra to his Reprise Records Label as its first female artist. Chronicling through music and stories how a little Samoan girl ended up recording/performing with the music & entertainment royalty of the day. A one-of-a-kind exploration the Great American Songbook.
Sample Program:
1st Half
This Could Be It
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
All My Tomorrows
The Best Is Yet To Come
There’s No You
People Will Say We're In Love
Dearly Beloved
The Man I Love
2nd Half
Get Out And Get Under The Moon
Pick Yourself Up
I Remember You
Desafinado
On Second Thought
Teach Me Tonight
Honeysuckle Rose
In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening
It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Additional Musicians: Drummer, Female Vocalist
CLASSICALLY JAZZED
An inventive mash-up of Popular All Time Classical Melodies reimagined, and all newly arranged, for the contemporary Pops Orchestra by Matt Catingub. The highlight of the program is Matt’s original work: Three Shades Of Blue, Concerto For Violin Jazz Trio And Orchestra, recently premiered by Violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti & Maestro Thom Wilkins, with the Omaha Symphony.
Sample Program:
1st Half
A Fifth and a Half of Beethoven
Air on G String (J.S. Bach)
Humoresque (Antonin Dvorák)
American in Paris (Short Excerpts)
Home Blues (Gershwin)
Pavanne (Variations) (Maurice Ravel)
Reverie (Variations) (Claude Debussy)
Toccata (Variations) (J.S. Bach)
2nd Half
Three Shades Of Blue, Concerto for Violin, Jazz Trio, and Orchestra (Catingub)
Mambo #2001 (Also Sprach Zarathustra)(Strauss)
Additional Musicians: Drummer, Female Vocalist, Violin Soloist
LATIN POP REVOLUTION
A Journey through the world of popular latin music and it’s roots. Audience is encouraged to participate in multiple ways, a fun evening of familiar songs, and modernized melodies. All newly arranged for the contemporary Pops Orchestra by Matt Catingub.
Sample Program:
1st Half
Tico Tico
Peg O My Heart
Santana-Esque
Tito-Esque
*So Danco Samba
*Mas Que Nada
Avalon
La Bamba (Trad Version)
2nd Half
St. Louis Blues (Cha Cha)
*Hurt
*Livin' la Vida Loca
Chicago (Mambo)
*Despacito
T Minus 3-2-1 / 1-2-3
Auwe Kanoa / Conga
Mambo #2001 (Also Sprach Zarathustra)
Additional Musicians: Drummer, Female Vocalist
GERSHWIN'S GREATEST
Matt’s Gershwin themed recordings over the years forms the basis for this show that celebrates some of the greatest music by America’s greatest composer, with fully reimagined and newly arranged versions of Gershwin standards and classics, including an all new, yet traditional take, on Rhapsody In Blue
Sample Program:
1st Half
I Got Rhythm
Summertime
They All Laughed
Someone To Watch Over Me
Nice Work If You Can Get It
A Foggy Day
An American In Paris (Excerpts)
Home Blues
S Wonderful
2nd Half
Rhapsody In Blue
They Can't Take That Away
Lady Be Good
Embraceable You
The Man I Love
Our Love Is Here To Stay
Additional Musicians: Drummer, Female Vocalist, Piano Soloist
MARDI GRAS JAZZ
Mardi Gras means masks, madness, and most of all: Music. A lively, fun-filled musical evening centered around the distinct songs and styles that make New Orleans the city of jazz.
Sample Program:
1st Half
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
*Carnival Time
When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
St. Louis Blues
*Mardi Gras Mambo
Mardi Gras Blues (Go To The Mardi Gras)
It Had To Be You
Jada
The Man I Love
2nd Half
King Porter Stomp
Won’t You Come Home Bill Bailey
Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
*Jock A Mo
Baby, Won't You Please Come Home
*Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?
Just A Gigolo/I Ain’t Got Nobody
When The Saints Go Marching In
After You’ve Gone (Encore)
Additional Musicians: Drummer, Female Vocalist
All programs fully licensed and/or royalty free