Past Seasons

Music of the Night

Concert 1: Dawn in America

Sunday, October 9, 2016, 3:00 PM

McAfee Performing Arts Center, Saratoga, California

Dr. Edward C. Harris, conductor
Dale Wolford, alto saxophone
Beth Delaney Miller, soprano Printed program

  • The Star-Spangled Banner Francis Scott Key
  • Suite of Old American Dances Robert Russell Bennett
    Western One-Step
    Schottische
    Cake Walk
  • Foster’s America David Gillingham
    A Penny for Your Thoughts (1861)
    Beautiful Dreamer (1862)
    If You’ve Only Got a Moustache (1864 )/Gentle Lena Clare (1862)
  • Woodland Sketches Edward MacDowell
    To a Wild Rose
    In Autumn
    At an Old Trysting-Place
    From Uncle Remus
  • Tribute to Rudy Wiedoeft arr. Gunther Schuller
    Valse Erica
    Saxarella
    Saxophobia
    Dale Wolford, alto saxophone
  • The Sunflower Slow Drag Scott Joplin, arr. Schuller
    The SJWS Ragtime Ensemble
  • The Cascades Scott Joplin, arr. Schuller
    The SJWS Ragtime Ensemble
  • American Hymnsong Suite Dwayne S. Milburn, arr. Utterback, Kuykendall
    Prelude on “Wonderous Love”
    Ballad on “Balm in Gilead”
    Sherzo on “Nettleton”
    March on “Wilson”
  • “Romany Life” from The Fortune Teller Victor Herbert, arr. Barrow
    Beth Delaney Miller, soprano
  • “Italian Street Song” from Naughty Marietta Victor Herbert, arr. Barrow
    Beth Delaney Miller, soprano
  • Easter Monday on the White House Lawn John Philip Sousa, ed. Rogers