January 27 and 28, 2018 3pm

Eastside College Preparatory School Performing Arts Center

 Featuring music by:                                          

Regina Baiocchi
Charles Brown
Harry Burleigh
Dr. Valerie Capers
Roland Hayes
Hall Johnson
Charles Lloyd, Jr.
Thelonious Monk
Andre Myers
Florence B. Price
John Robinson III
William Grant Still
Billy Strayhorn
Robert Henry “Bobby” Timmons
Richard Wagner
John Worley
Roxanna Wright

Program

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I. “Winds of Change”                 John Worley

Dedicated to Barack Obama,  44^th President of the United States of America

John Worley, trumpet

II: Out of the Blues

“Song Without Words”   Charles Brown

“Compensation” (Paul Laurence Dunbar)    Charles Lloyd, Jr.

“Harlem Night Song” (Langston Hughes)     Andre Myers

“We Have Tomorrow” (Langston Hughes)   Florence Price

Yolanda Rhodes, soprano

Josephine Gandolfi, LaDoris Cordell, and Deanne Tucker, piano

III. Spirituals

“Lit’l Boy”         arr. Roland Hayes

“You Mus’ Come in By an’ Thro’ the Lamb”                       arr. Hayes

“Leanin’on dat Lamb”           arr. Hall Johnson

“Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel”         arr. Harry Burleigh

Othello Jefferson, tenor

LaDoris Cordell and Josephine Gandolfi, piano

IV. Comfort for Our Children

“Mother and Child”       William Grant Still

      (arr. for trio from violin/piano duo by Gandolfi)

Picasso Ensemble:

Susan C. Brown, Victoria Ehrlich, and Josephine Gandolfi

Two lullabies:

“Farmchild’s Lullaby” (Paul Laurence Dunbar)   Valerie Capers

Othello Jefferson, tenor, Josephine Gandolfi, piano

“Shadows”  Regina Harris Baiocchi

Yolanda Rhodes, soprano, Douglas Brown, bassoon,

Josephine Gandolfi, piano, Jim Kassis, percussion

V. The Innocence Project

“Legends” (John Henry)  Regina Harris Baiocchi

Othello Jefferson, tenor

Jim Kassis and Deanne Tucker, conga and brake drums

“Hold Out for Joy” (inspired by Psalm 30:5) Regina Harris Baiocchi

LaDoris Cordell, vocalist, Victoria Ehrlich, cello,

Josephine Gandolfi, piano

“I’m Thinking of a Butterfly”             Roxanna Wright

Roxanna Wright, soprano, Oscar Pangilinan, alto saxophone

Vocal back-up: LaDoris Cordell, Yolanda Rhodes, Deanne Tucker,

Jansen Verplank, piano, John Worley, trumpet,

John Robinson, bass, Jim Kassis, percussion

VI. Presenting the Eastside Choir, Jansen Verplank, Director

“Two Thousand Twenty”             Roxanna Wright

Jansen Verplank, piano, Heber Alvarez, bass, Raymond Ruiz, rapper

John Worley, trumpet, Jim Kassis, percussion

Intermission

VII. A New John Robinson Trio

“The Secret Life of Mannequins” (2017)                  John H. Robinson III

Picasso Ensemble:

Susan C. Brown, Victoria Ehrlich, and Josephine Gandolfi

VIII. Valerie Capers and Richard Wagner

“Winter’s Love”       Richard Wagner/arr. Valerie Capers

Stephanie McNab, flute,

Valerie Capers, John Robinson, Jim Kassis

“Wagner Takes the ‘A’ Train”             Billy Strayhorn/Richard Wagner         arr. Valerie Capers

Valerie Capers, John Robinson, Jim Kassis, Susan C. Brown,

Victoria Ehrlich, Stephanie McNab, Carol Somersille, Doug Brown,

Oscar Pangilinan, John Worley, John Monroe

IX. A Jazz Classic

“Round Midnight”           Thelonious Monk

Valerie Capers, John Robinson, Jim Kassis

X. Company Finale 

“The Gift of Song” (1986, revised 2017)   Valerie Capers

      (text by Paul Laurence Dunbar, additional text by Valerie Capers)