This 50-piece concert band performed its Fall Concert onTuesday, December 3rd, 1996, at 7:30 p.m. The concert was heldat Wauwatosa West High School at 114th and Center.
The band is conducted by Donna Kummer. The evening's announcerwas local theatre personality Gladys Chmiel. Pam Ebeling providedthe choreography for selected portions of the program.
As the title suggests, the music for this program was takenfrom a variety of dances: folk, ethnic, classical, and show tunes.Where else could you hear Bernstein's West Side Story, Duke Ellington'sMood Indigo, and the Clarinet Polka all in one concert?!
The program consisted of the following:
| Title | Composer | Arranger |
| The Footlifter March | Henry Fillmore | |
| Armenian Dances
| Alfred Reed | |
| Selections from "Cats" | Andrew Lloyd Webber | arr. by John Edmondson |
| French Country Dance | Carl Strommen | |
| Symphonic Dance Music from "West Side Story"
| Leonard Bernstein | trans. by Ian Polster |
| Sword Dance from "Gayanne" Ballet | Aram Khachaturian | arr. by Richard Mohaupt |
| Suite of Old American Dances
| Robert Russell Bennett | |
| Valse des Fleurs | Peter I Tchaikovsky | arr. by M.L. Lake and H.R. Kent |
| Satiric Dances for a comedy by Aristophanes
| Norman Dello Joio | |
| Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies | Duke Ellington | arr. by John Edmondson |
| Clarinet Polka | arr. David Bennett |
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