MIDWEST YOUNG ARTISTS CONSERVATORY ORCHESTRA

MIDWEST YOUNG ARTISTS JAZZ ENSEMBLE

CONCERTS & PERFORMANCES

Allan Dennis, Conductor and Music Director

Neil Carson, Jazz Director

IRELAND Dublin: Christ Church Cathedral

Thursday, June 16

6:45pm

Jazz Ensemble

8:45pm

Orchestra

Light Americana Program

Paul Byrom, Tenor

Benefit Performance for the Homeless

Cork: Cork City Hall

Friday, June 16

6:45pm

Jazz Ensemble

7:30pm

Orchestra

Light Americana Program

Paul Byrom, Tenor

Benefit Performance for the Homeless

Cork: Cork Shandon Music Festival

Saturday, June 18

3:00pm

Orchestra

Opening Festival Performance

Time TBD

Jazz Ensemble

Cork: Amphitheatre Picnic in the Park

Sunday, June 19

12:30pm

Orchestra

Opening Event

4:30pm

Jazz Ensemble

Cork Midsummer Festival Performance

Westport, County Mayo: Town Hall Auditorium

Monday, June 20

7:30pm

Orchestra

Northern Ireland: Derry Guildhall

Wednesday, June 22

7:15pm

Jazz Ensemble

8:00pm

Orchestra

Northern Ireland: Belfast Ulster Hall

Thursday, June 23

6:30pm

Jazz Ensemble

7:30pm

Orchestra

With Peter Correy, Tenor

Gerry Kelly from the BBC will emcee

Concern Worldwide Belfast Branch Benefit

Northern Ireland: Belfast Merchant Hotel Jazz Center

Friday, June 24

TBD (likely 8:00pm)

Jazz Ensemble

SCOTLAND Glasgow Maryhill Community Hall

Saturday, June 25

7:30pm

Orchestra

Glasgow University Chapel

Saturday, June 26

3:00pm

Jazz Ensemble

Orchestra

Edinbourgh Location TBD

Monday, June 27 Jazz Program to be selected from the following:

Swing: Moanin (Bobby Timmons, made famous by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers)

Black Nile (Wayne Shorter)

Latin: Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim)

Ballad: Where Is Love (Lionel Bart, from Oliver)

Funk: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Joe Zawinul, made famous by Cannonball Adderly)

It Could Happen to You

Autumn Leaves

Have You Met Miss Jones?

Invitation

If I Were a Bell

Body and Soul

Orchestra Program:

Academic Festival Overture by Johannes Brahms (10’)

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber (10’)

Symphony #2 (Mysterious Mountain) I. Andante con moto, II. Double Fugue: Moderato

Maestoso – Allegro vivo Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) (5, 5)

Hoe-Down from “Rodeo” by Aaron Copland (4)

Intermission

Phantom of the Opera arranged Calvin Custer (9’)

Selections from Sound of Music arranged by Robert Russell Bennett (10’)

Highlights from Rocky arranged by Robert Lowden (10’)

Darth Vader Theme by John Williams (6)

Encores chosen from:

Nimrod from Enigma Variations Sir Edward Elgar (4)

SSB

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