Spring 2026

• Here are the pieces we are learning in preparation for our Spring concerts.

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1. Duke’s Place

   1. Also known as C Jam Blues.

2. Come Fly with Me

   1. Sung by Frank Sinatra and Michael Bublé

3. Fly Me to the Moon

   1. Arranged by Rosana Eckert who is a professor at North Texas State University.

   2. Sung by Kaye Ballard and Frank Sinatra

4. This Can’t Be Love

   1. Composed by Rodgers and Hart for the Broadway Show The Boys from Syracuse which was a derivative of Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors. This arrangement shifts back and forth from Hip Hop Funk to Swing.

5. Swinging On a Star

   1. Originally sung by Bing Crosby.

6. How Am I Supposed to Live Without You

   1. Written in 1982 and sung first by Laura Branigan and then by Michael Bolton who was a co-writer of the song. 

7. You Take Me Away

   1. A Rosana Eckert arrangement of a Samba.

8. Reminiscing

   1. A 1978 song by the Little River Band

9. I Say a Little Prayer

   1. Written in 1967 by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

   2. Sung first by Dionne Warwick, and later by Aretha Franklin

10. Happy

    1. Written in 2013 for Despicable Me 2 and sung by Pharrell Williams. It was the best selling song of 2014.

11. More Than Words

    1. Written by Extreme in 1990.

12. But Not for Me

    1. Written in 1930 by George and Ira Gershwin.

    2. Ella Fitzgerald’s version won a Grammy Award in 1960.

13. I’m Old Fashioned

14. Written in 1942 by Jerome Kern and Johnny Mercer.