Photo Credit: Alex Wohlhueter
Fruit Flies Like a Banana
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We will be starting the show with Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by J.S. Bach then you are in charge of the show order. Please be read to choose a card when The Fourth Wall shouts, “Pick a card! Any card!” Pieces in the first half to be chosen from the following:
America! - Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa
A Different Approach to an Instrument - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Flute Blob - It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It in’t Got that Swing) by Duke Ellington
Milonga - Milonguella by Miguel Bareilles
Pop! - Onomatopoeia by Ramón Castillo
Something French - Gymnopedie No. 1 by Erik Satie
Time Out! - Take Five by Paul Desmond
Tiny Efforts - The people could fly by Dr. Alice Jones
Vaudeville - Ticklin’ Toes by Florence Price
Word of the Day by The Vestibules
INTERMISSION
The second half will begin with Skating by Vince Guaraldi (a.k.a. “Gold Medal”). The show will continue also in random order, but this time you are in charge of both what comes next as well as the vibe of the show. Take a look at the color names and titles below so you’re ready to shout one out when The Fourth Wall asks you to “Pick a color!”
WARM COLORS - typically high energy/high impact
Magenta Variations - Caprice No. 24 by Niccolò Paganini
Rhymes with Orange - Bolero by Maurice Ravel
Straw Yellow - “La Escoba” trad., arr. by Terry L. Baldrige
COOL COLORS - typically more mellow and meditative
Bronze Sculpture - "III. Gamin" from Suite for Violin and Piano by William Grant Still
Kelly Green - Lord Dalkeith’s Reel/Sir Harry Flutter by Ignatius Sancho
Purple Shimmer - “II. Andante” from Piano Sonata in E Minor by Florence Price
PATTERNS & PALETTES - nothing typical about this category. It’s a mix of who knows what!
Fires of Valhalla - “Ride of the Valkyries” from Die Walküre by Richard Wagner
Rainbow - Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin
Retro Vibes - 8-Track Mind, by various artists
And if you super like us and want us to continue, keep applauding at the end of the show until we perform the “Trepak” from The Nutcracker by Piotr Tchaikovsky.
*All parodies and arrangements by The Fourth Wall
Hilary Abigana flute & piccolo
C. Neil Parsons bass trombone
Greg Jukes percussion & accordion
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