Nelson Riddle Orchestra to Bring Sinatra Celebration to Harris Center, Today

Celebrate Sinatra's birth centennial with the timeless music of the legendary team, Nelson Riddle and Frank Sinatra! Famed big band singer Bryan Anthony and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, directed by his son, Christopher Riddle, will transport the audience back to a magical and beloved era in music!

It's a special evening celebrating the Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, and who better to carry the occasion than the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. Sinatra called Nelson Riddle "Maestro" and praised him as "The Greatest Arranger in the World." They worked together from 1953 to 1962, producing the albums of Sinatra's golden age, including some of his most enduring classics like "I've Got the World on a String," and "I've Got You Under My Skin." Come hear the music of one of the greatest arrangers in the history of popular music popularized by one of the greatest interpreters of the Great American Songbook.

SINATRA CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION WITH THE NELSON RIDDLE ORCHESTRA Friday, December 11, 2015 at 2 and 7:30 pm. Tickets are priced at $29-$55, Premium $59. Tickets are available online at www.harriscenter.net or from the Harris Center Ticket Office at 916-608-6888 from noon to 6 pm Monday through Saturday, and two hours before show time. Parking is included in the price of the ticket. Harris Center is located on the west side of Folsom Lake College campus in Folsom, CA, facing East Bidwell Street.

The Nelson Riddle Orchestra is generally considered the "World's Most Recorded Orchestra" having recorded with Frank Sinatra, Nat "King" Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt and many others.

The Nelson Riddle Orchestra continues to perform to packed houses across the United States and Europe. The Orchestra continues the musical legacy by performing all of the great Riddle musical arrangements in a style true to the original recordings.

Nelson Riddle is generally credited for reviving Sinatra's career in the 1950s with the recording of "I've Got the World on a String" on Capitol Records. Notable future recordings with Sinatra would include the albums Songs for Young Lovers, In the Wee Small Hours, A Swingin' Affair, and Nice n' Easy, to name but a few. Sinatra, himself, recalled those years in the liner notes of his Duets album, "In the 1950's, Nelson Riddle and I wanted to record groups of songs that set a mood. We recorded wonderful, soulful, tender albums; as well as hot swinging ones."

The Nelson Riddle Orchestra celebrates The Great American Songbook with songs of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, Sammy Cahn and other great composers of the 20th Century. Songs that Sinatra made into worldwide classics with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra: "I've Got The World On A String," "All The Way," "Chicago," "The Way You Look Tonight," "I've Got You Under My Skin," Summer Wind," "Night and Day," "My Kind of Town" (Chicago Is) and many more!

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