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Concert 2: Music for the Holidays

Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:00 PM

McAfee Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, California

Dr. Edward C. Harris, conductor
Vivace Youth Chorus, Peggy Spool, director Printed program

  • Festival Fanfare for Christmas John Wasson
  • Dies Natalis Howard Hanson
  • Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Alfred Reed
  • Minor Alterations David Lovrien
  • O Come, All Ye Faithful John Reading
    Audience Participation
  • I Saw Three Ships Traditional, arr. Michael Braz
    Vivace Youth Chorus
  • Jingle Bell Swing arr. David J. Elliott
    Vivace Youth Chorus
  • Silent Night Franz Gruber, arr. B. Wayne Bisbee
    Vivace Youth Chorus
  • Five Carols Brian Holmes
    1. Good News
    2. Carol of the Field Mice
    3. Who Will Come to Bethlehem?
    4. A Christmas Lullaby
    5. On Christmas Day
    Vivace Youth Chorus
  • A Menorah Medley: Eight Candles – Eight Songs arr. Michael Flamhaft
  • The Twelve Days of Christmas Traditonal, arr. Julie Giroux
  • Away in a Manger Julie Giroux
  • Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Felix Mendelssohn
    Audience Participation
  • Christmas and Sousa Forever John Philip Sousa, arr. Julie Giroux
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Concert 3: Music from America

Sunday, February 8, 2015, 3:00 PM

McAfee Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, California

Dr. Edward C. Harris, conductor
Premier Saxophone Quartet Printed program

  • Fanfare for Freedom Morton Gould
  • Variations on “America” Charles Ives
  • October Eric Whitacre
  • Selections from “Porgy and Bess” George Gershwin, arr. R. Bennett
  • Concerto Grosso William Bolcom
    1. Lively
    2. Song Without Words
    3. Valse
    4. Badinerie
    Premiere Saxophone Quartet
  • Americans We Henry Fillmore
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Concert 4: Music for Trumpet

Sunday, March 15, 2015, 3:00 PM

McAfee Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, California

Dr. Edward C. Harris, conductor
Mark Inouye, trumpet Printed program

  • Magnolia Star Steve Danyew
  • English Folk Song Suite Ralph Vaughan Williams
    I. March - "Seventeen Come Sunday"
    II. Intermezzo - "My Bonny Boy"
    III. Folk Songs from Somerset
  • Mare Tranquillitatis Roger Zare
  • Scenes from “The Louvre” Norman Dello Joio
    I. The Portals
    II. Children's Gallery
    III. The Kings of France
    IV. The Nativity Paintings
    V. Finale
  • O Magnum Mysterium Morten Lauridsen, trans. H. R.Reynolds
  • Concerto for Trumpet Joseph Haydn, arr. W. J. Duthoit
    I. Allegro
    II. Andante
    III. Allegro
    Mark Inouye, trumpet
  • Intermezzo from “La Boda de Luis Alonso” Geronimo Gimenez, ed. McAllister/Graham
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Concert 5: Music from Around the World

Sunday, May 17, 2015, 3:00 PM

McAfee Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, California

Dr. Edward C. Harris, conductor Printed program

  • Hands Across the Sea John Philip Sousa, arr. Brion/Schissel
  • Korean Folksongs from Jeju Island Frank Ticheli
    I. Country Song (“Iyahong”)
    II. The Forest Nymph and the Woodcutter (“Kyehwa”)
    III. Celebration on Halla Mountain (“Nuhyoung Nahyoung”)
  • Cantique de Jean Racine, Opus 11 Gabriel Fauré, arr. Monty R. Musgrave
  • March of the Belgian Parachutists Pieter Leemans, arr. John R. Bourgeois
  • Symphony No. IV: Bookmarks from Japan Julie Giroux
    I. Fuji-san – “Mt. Fuji”
    II. Nihonbashi – “Bridge Market”
    III. The Great Wave off Kanagawa – “The Life of One Wave”
    IV. Kinryu-zan Sensōji – “Thunder Gate”
    V. Evening Snow at Kambara – “Light is the Touch”
    VI. Hakone – “Drifting”
  • Funiculi Funicula Luigi Denza, arr. Alfred Reed
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Concert 6: Fantastic Fourth!

Saturday, July 4, 2015, 1:15 PM

Oak Meadow Park, Los Gatos

Dr. Edward C. Harris, conductor
Walter M. Mayes, narrator
Zinfandel Stompers Jazz Band Printed program

  • The Star-Spangled Banner arr. John Philip Sousa
  • Silverado Bruce Broughton, arr. Bass
  • Armed Forces Medley arr. Robert Cray
  • Hands Across the Sea John Philip Sousa, arr. Brion/Schissel
  • Original Dixieland Concerto John Warrington
    Zinfandel Stompers Jazz Band
  • Dixieland Live! arr. Lewis J. Buckley
    Zinfandel Stompers Jazz Band
  • The Washington Post John Philip Sousa, arr. Brion/Schissel
    Robert (“Uncle Bob”) Birnstihl, guest conductor
  • March from “1941” John Williams, trans. Lavender
  • Americans We Henry Fillmore, ed. Fennell
  • Selections from “Porgy and Bess” George Gershwin, arr. R. R. Bennett
  • Chicago Tribune March W. Paris Chambers, ed. Boyd
  • Dixieland Jamboree Various composers
    Zinfandel Stompers Jazz Band
  • Dixieland Selections arr. John Warrington
    Zinfandel Stompers Jazz Band
  • The Stars and Stripes Forever John Philip Sousa, ed. Brion