SoNA and the Fayetteville Jazz Collective: March 10

Saturday, March 10, 2012 at 7:30 p.m.
Walton Arts Center

SoNA and The Jazz Collective: 250 Years of Greatest Hits

This concert places SoNA and the Jazz Collective side by side on Walton Arts Center’s main stage. Both groups will play greatest hits from both the classical and jazz genres, interwoven into a continuous musical fabric you won’t want to miss.

A Creative Conversation with Music Director Paul Haas and KUAF/NPR 91.3FM News Director Kyle Kellams will take place at 6:45pm in Starr Theater.  The Creative Conversation is free and open to anyone with tickets to the concert.

Get tickets now at the Walton Arts Center box office or call 479.443.5600

The program will feature the following (along with a few surprises):

Glenn Miller | In the Mood

Arlen/Coslow/Ellington | It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)

Gluck | “Dance of the Furies” from Orfeo ed Euridice

Henry Mancini Theme from The Pink Panther

W. A. Mozart | Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550, Allegro Molto

Rick Salonen  | El Lobo Cuarenta

W. A. Mozart Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, Finale: Molto allegro

INTERMISSION

Copland Fanfare for the Common Man

Glenn Miller | Moonlight Serenade

Beethoven | Symphony No. 5 in C minor, op.67, Allegro con brio

Luis Prima | Sing, Sing, Sing

Elgar | “Nimrod” from Enigma Variations

Rimsky-Korsakov | “Flight of the Bumblebee” from Tsar Saltan

Joe Zawinul | Birdland

Stravinsky | Berceuse and Finale from The Firebird (1919)