Welcome to the not old better show. I'm your host Paul Vogel-Sang.

For our second conversation with what makes it great composer, conductor, lecturer, and music expert Rob Capolo.

I caught up with him just before he went on stage at the Baird Auditorium here in Washington, D.C.

where Rob unlocked the secrets of master songwriter Harold Arlen.

This interview is a companion to our recent conversation with Rob when we discussed at length

the almost anonymous Arlen, whose vast songbook is well known,

although the composer isn't of such great songs like Get Happy, Last Night when we were young, Stormy Weather,

That Old Black Magic, and Over the Rainbow, which was voted the number one song of the

20th century by the Recording Industry Association of America

and the National Endowment for the Arts. This evening's performance featured singers

Michael Winter and Nicky Renee Daniels both with stellar voices,

Broadway credits and perfectly matched for the Capolo versions of the music that they sing while Rob plays.

As you know, for more than a decade, Capolo has brought the joys and wonder of music to audiences of all ages and backgrounds with his what makes it great

presentations, which dissect and examine the mystery of music in terms everyone can grasp and appreciate.

Part one of the evening is really this entertaining discussion,

displaying Rob's astounding gift for observation

and his very animated style of teaching. Part two features these

beautiful compositions sung tonight of course by Winter and Nicky Renee Daniels

and then part three concludes with a very spirited question and answer on all of

the work that they've performed. We of course had some questions for Rob. We got a

chance to ask him and listen to a little bit of the pre-show rehearsal music before the audience and it was a treat. I'm with Rob Capilow. We're backstage at the Baird Auditorium.

Rob's here today to perform at the Smithsonian Associates Program and Rob of course famously does the what makes it great

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