PROGRAM #1

“Tradition and the Innovative”

Red Clay and Mississippi Delta - Valerie Coleman

Selections from Scheherazade - N. Rimsky-Korsakov arr. Jonathan Russell

Contrabajissimo - Astor Piazzolla arr. Jeff Scott

INTERMISSION

Snapshots (CMNZ commission) - Natalie Hunt

A Farewell Mambo - Paquito D'Rivera                                 

Dance Mediterranea - Simon Shaheen arr. Jeff Scott

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PROGRAM #2

“Classically Improvised”

Afro Blue - Mongo Santamaria arr. Valerie Coleman

Le Tombeau de Couperin - Maurice Ravel arr. Mason Jones

• Prelude
• Fugue
• Menuet
• Rigadon

Kites - Paquito D’Rivera

• Kites Over Havana
• Wind Chimes

INTERMISSION

Snapshots (CMNZ commission) - Natalie Hunt

Portraits of Josephine - Valerie Coleman

• St. Louis 1920
• Les Milandes
• Paris 1925
• Thank you Josephine

Libertango - Astor Piazzolla arr. Jeff Scott