Summer Pops 2024:  Jazz It Up! 

Program

 A Touch of Jazz                                                                                                 arr. Jerry Brubaker
                “Cute” by Neal Hefti
                “C Jam Blues” by Duke Ellington
                “L’il Darlin’” by Neal Hefti
                “Take Five” by Paul Desmond
                “It Don’t Mean a Thing” by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills
                “’Round Midnight” by Cootie Williams and Thelonious Monk
                “The Swingin’ Shepherd Blues” by Kenny Jacobson and Moe Koffman
 
Maple Leaf Rag                                                                                                Scott Joplin/ed. Gunther Schuller
 
International Dixieland Jamboree                                                               arr. Bill Holcombe
                “Bill Bailey” by Hughie Cannon
                “St. James Infirmary Blues” by Cab Calloway
                “When the Saints Go Marching In” – Traditional Spiritual
 
Moonlight Serenade                                                                                     Glenn Miller/arr. Bob Cerulli
 
Jazz Legato                                                                                                      Leroy Anderson
Jazz Pizzicato
 
Satchmo! – A Tribute to Louis Armstrong                                                  arr. Ted Ricketts
                “What a Wonderful World” by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss
                “When the Saints Go Marching In” – Traditional Spiritual
                “St. Louis Blues” by W. C. Handy
                “Hello Dolly” by Jerry Herman
Albert Nguyen, guest conductor
 
 
Variations on “Fascinating Rhythm”                                                          George Gershwin/arr. John Whitney
 
Intermission
 
Embraceable You                                                                                         George Gershwin/arr. Calvin Custer
Nathan Wilensky, flugelhorn
 
Desafinado                                                                                                    Antonio Carlos Jobim/arr. Mike Lewis
Albert Nguyen
 
La Suerte de Lost Tantos (Fortune of Fools)                                            Johnny Richards/arr. John Whitney
 
Dave Brubeck:  It’s About Time                                                                  arr. Chuck Sayre
                “Take Five” by Paul Desmond
                “Unsquare Dance” by Dave Brubeck
                ‘Blue Rondo a La Turk” by Dave Brubeck
 
Duke Ellington! A Medley for Orchestra                                                 arr. Calvin Custer
                “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore” by Ellington and Bob Russell
                “Do Nothin’ ‘Till You Hear From Me” by Ellington and Bob Russell
                “Sophisticated Lady” by Ellington, Irving Mills and Mitchell Parish
                “It Don’t Mean a Thing if It Ain’t Got That Swing by Ellington and Irving Mills
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Joining us for this concert:

and from the Germantown Youth Symphony Orchestra:

• Andrew Hofmann - clarinet
• Bailey Lim - flute
• Wesley Lim - flute
• Betsy Rivas - viola
• Hailey Smith - violin
• Ian Greer - clarinet
• Sheryl Lane - violin