BYRON STRIPLING’S HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Renowned trumpeter, conductor, singer, actor, and multi-talented performer Byron Stripling returns to lead and perform with the Charleston Symphony for an exhilarating evening of symphonic jazz. Featuring works such as I Got Rhythm, Saint Louis Blues, Someone To Watch Over Me, Sweet Georgia Brown, and more. Join us in celebrating 100 years of the Harlem Renaissance, an electrifying artistic revolution that ignited the golden age of African American culture and left a lasting impact on the landscape of popular music.
Byron Stripling is Principal Pops conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and serves as Artistic Director and Conductor of the highly acclaimed Columbus Jazz Orchestra. With a contagious smile and captivating charm, conductor, trumpet virtuoso, singer, and actor Stripling ignites audiences across the globe. His baton has led countless orchestras throughout the United States and Canada including the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood and the orchestras of San Diego, St. Louis, Virginia, Toronto, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Fort Worth, Rochester, Buffalo, Florida, Portland, and Sarasota to name a few. As a soloist with the Boston Pops, Stripling has performed frequently under the baton of Keith Lockhart, as well as being the featured soloist on the PBS television special, “Evening at Pops,” with conductors John Williams and Mr. Lockhart.
ARTISTS
Byron Stripling, conductor and trumpet
Sydney McSweeney, Vocals
Bobby Floyd, Keyboard
Eric Metzgar, Drums
PROGRAM
John Stafford Smith, arr. Arthur Frackenpohl
Star Spangled Banner
Irving Berlin, arr. Jeff Tyzik
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Don Redman and Irving Mills, arr.Dennis Mackrel and Jeff Tyzik
Saint James Infirmary Blues
Traditional, arr. Cook
A Motherless Child
Ella Fitzgerald and Al Feldman
A Tisket, A Tasket
George and Ira Gershwin, arr. Nelson Riddle
I Got Rhythm
George and Ira Gershwin, arr. Bill Grimes
The Man I Love
Ben Bernie and Maceo Pinkard, arr. Dennis Mackrel
Sweet Georgia Brown
INTERMISSION
William Christopher Handy, arr. Jeff Tyzik
Saint Louis Blues
Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva, and Lew Brown, arr. George Arthur Rhodes
The Birth of Blues
Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters
Hoochie Coochie Man
Julia Ward Howe, arr. Manny Albam
Battle Hymn Of The Republic
George and Ira Gershwin and Howard Dietz, arr. Nelson Riddle
Someone To Watch Over Me
Civilla D. Martin and Charles H. Gabriel
His Eye Is On The Sparrow
Traditional, arr. Samuel Cooke and Harry Dixon
Amen/This Little Light
Traditional, arr. Doc Cook
