Friday, September 17, 1999:

Kaleidoscope of Accordions

Tentative program:

Westmont Philharmonia Accordion Orchestra, Stanley Darrow, Director

Performing Rossini's ovetures from The Turk in Italy and The Barber of Seville, Clarence "Pinetop" Smith's "'Original' Boogie-Woogie," traditional German folk songs, a medley of Sinatra's greatest hits (including "Strangers in the Night," "My Way," and more), "Asturias" by Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz, "Rotation" by the German composer Fred Weissman (avant garde), "A La Brubeck" by Joss Baselli (jazz), and "Russian Mosaic" by Sergei Simbirev (tone poem).

Quartet Accord

Stanley Darrow, Joanna Arnold, Marian Darrow, and Anthony Darrow. Renaissance music, Bach's Chorale Prelude #18.

Joanna Arnold, solo

Performing Bach inventions and Scarlatti.

Stanley Darrow, solo

Performing Malcolm Arnold's Variations on a Ukranian Folksong (1944).

Darrow-Arnold duet

Melodies from Gounod's Faust

Darrow-Frank Hodnicki duet

Polkas and other Polish folk music.

Yolanda Romagnolo

"Malaguena" by Ernesto Lecuona.