About the Concert

The 1940s and the 1950s were the decades of dance! “Swing is the Thing” features two world champion swing dancers and two fabulous vocalists. From Duke Ellington and Glenn Miller, to Bill Haley and the Comets and Jerry Lee Lewis, the Dayton Philharmonic highlights the biggest dance hits from the decades of dance that we all know and love.

Program

Pettis/Meyers (arr. Tyzik) Bugle Call Blues
Traditional (arr. Finegan) Song of the Volga Boatman
Gray/Sigman (arr. Tyzik) Pennsylvania 6-5000
Shaw (arr. Tyzik) Nightmare
Lunceford (arr. Tyzik) T'aint What You Do
Grainger/Robbins (arr. Tyzik) T'aint Nobody's Business If I Do
Hunter/Austin (arr. Tyzik) Downhearted Blues
Tyzik Downtown Shuffle
Handy (arr. Tyzik) St. Louis Blues
Tyzik Harlem Street Scene

- Intermission -

Johnson Charleston
Armstrong/Gerlach (arr. Tyzik) Swing That Music
Ellington (arr. Tyzik) Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Dennis/Brent (arr. Tyzik) Angel Eyes
Hawkins (arr. Tyzik) Swing Out
Smith (arr. Tyzik) Backwater Blues
Arr. Tyzik St. James Infirmary 
Gershwin I've Got Rhythm
Lee Fever
Cox (arr. Tyzik) Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
Tyzik Swing, Swing, Swing

Featured Artists

Patrick Reynolds, Conductor

Dave Bennett, clarinet

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra