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Concerts

Opening Night - Dance Mix

JOHANN STRAUSS (1825-1899)
Unter Donner und Blitz, Op. 324 "Thunder and Lightning" - Polka schnell (1868)

ANONYMOUS (14th Century)
Istampita Palamento

EDWARD KENNEDY ("DUKE") ELLINGTON (1899-1974)
Don't Get Around Much Anymore (1942)

FRANZ JOSEF HAYDN (1732-1809)
Quartet No. 61 in D Minor, Op. 76 No. 2 "Fifths" (1797) - III. Menuetto: Allegro ma non troppo

AFX (Richard D. James, alias Aphex Twin) (b. 1971)
Analogue Bubblebath (1991)

JEAN BAPTISTE LULLY (1632-1687)
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Suite)
1. Overture
2. Gavotte
3. Air des Espagnoles: Gigue
4. Marche pour la Cérémonie Turque

THE BEE GEES (Robin Gibb, Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb)
Stayin' Alive (1977)

- INTERMISSION -

TRADITIONAL / DAVID BYRNE (b. 1952)
Ngoma / I Zimbra (1979)

ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992)
Libertango (1973) / Tres Minutos Con La Realidad (1957)

RAHUL DEV BURMAN (1939-1994)
Tum Kitne Din Baad Mile (1978) (from the film "The Great Gambler")

TRADITIONAL (Norway)
Nordic Suite
1. Blâ Tonaer Fra Lom
2. Kjoeringkjegla
3. Thomasklukkud'n Pa Filefjel
4. Tveitanvise

SAPO PERAPASKERO (20th Century)
Turceasca

AARON COPLAND (1900-1990)
Hoedown (from Rodeo) (1942)

All music arranged by Brian Coughlin.

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The Finale - Rite of Spring/None of the Above

2010 Composition Competition Winning Score

CARL SCHIMMEL
"The Pismirist's Congeries"

"The Rite of Spring"

IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)
The Rite of Spring (1913)

- INTERMISSION -

"None of the Above" (The Music of Frank Zappa)

FRANK ZAPPA (1940-1993)
T-Mershi Duween
Big Swifty
The Black Page
Drowning Witch
King Kong
The Purple Lagoon/Approximate
G-Spot Tornado

All music arranged by Brian Coughlin.

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