La Primavera Program

Jazz Band Birdland

Josef Zawinul/arr. Victor Lopez

Birdland was written by Josef Erich Zawinul (1932-2007), an Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer. Zawinul named the composition after a famous jazz club in New York City. The name “Birdland” comes from “Bird” himself, Charlie Parker, a legendary saxophonist for whom the club was named.

Over the years all of the jazz greats have played at Birdland, which still runs today.

The Days of Wine and Roses

Henry Mancini/arr. Dave Rivello

“Days of Wine and Roses” is a popular song, from the 1962 movie of the same name. The music was written by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. They received the Academy Award for Best Original Song for their work, as well as the 1963 Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In 2004 it finished at #39 in AFI’s 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.

You Are the Sunshine of My Life

Artist: Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder/arr. Mark Taylor

“You Are the Sunshine of My Life” is a 1973 single released by Stevie Wonder. The song became Wonder’s third number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and his first number-one on the Easy Listening chart. It won Wonder a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, and was nominated for both Record of the Year and Song of the Year.[2] This song was the second single (following “Superstition”) released from the 1972 album entitled Talking Book, which stayed at number one on the R&B albums chart for three weeks. Rolling Stone ranks the song at number 183 on their list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time”. Billboard called it “a soft, haunting ballad with outstanding electric piano runs and outstanding production work.”

Low Brass Ensemble

The Legend of Zelda Koji Kondo/arr. Joshua Joy

The Legend of Zelda is an action-adventure game franchise created by the Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka. It is primarily developed and published by Nintendo, although some portable installments and re-releases have been outsourced to Capcom, Vanpool, and Grezzo. The gameplay incorporates action-adventure and elements of action RPG games. Joshua Joy arrangement brings together a compilation of the themes and melodies used throughout franchise.

Percussion Ensemble

Telea

Daniel Adams

“Latin percussion performance and Medieval composition techniques are combined in Talea. The piece is named for a repeated figure characteristic of the Ars Nova isorhythmic motet, where pitch and rhythmic repetition coincide only periodically. The piece is in 5/4 meter throughout. The triangle opens with a steady eighth-note pattern consisting of a regular succession of open and muffled strokes. The cowbell, conga, and woodblock enter in a pattern of quarter notes that forms a three-against-four-against-five cross-rhythm. The claves, bongos, temple blocks, and tom-toms play repeated patterns that repeat every three, seven, eleven, and thirteen beats, respectively.“

Orchestra

Scene and Dance (from “Swan Lake”)

Tchaikovsky/arr. Hummel & Whistler

Swan Lake, possibly the most-often performed ballet worldwide, tells the story of Odette, a princess who is cursed by an evil sorcerer to live as a swan by day and a woman by night. Scene and Dance is based on the famous “Swan Theme” from the end of Act I.

Pirates of the Caribbean

Hans Zimmer & Klaus Badelt/arr. Ted Ricketts

Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack, score, recording sessions, remixes are official release soundtrack albums from the film with the same title. The album was released in 2003, by Walt Disney Records and contains selections of music from the movie’s score and some albums even never featured music. The music of the film and this album are both credited to composer Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer and producer Hans Zimmer.

Guitar - Code Red Linger

The Cranberries

“Linger” is a song by Irish alternative rock band the Cranberries from their debut studio album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? (1993). Composed by band members Dolores O’Riordan and Noel Hogan, and produced by Stephen Street, “Linger” was first released as the second and final single from the album on 15 February 1993 by Island Records.

Everybody Wants to Rule the World Tears of Fear

“Everybody Wants to Rule the World” is a song by English pop rock band Tears for Fears. It was written by Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, and Chris Hughes and produced by Hughes. The song was first released on 25 February 1985 by Phonogram, Mercury, and Vertigo Records as the third single from the band’s second album, Songs from the Big Chair (1985).

Dancing Queen ABBA

“Dancing Queen” is a Europop and disco song by the Swedish group ABBA, released as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Arrival (1976). It was written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Stig Anderson. Andersson and Ulvaeus also produced the song. “Dancing Queen” was released as a single in Sweden on 15 August 1976, followed by a UK release and the rest of Europe a few days later. It was a worldwide hit. It became ABBA’s only number one hit in the United States, and topped the charts worldwide.