Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Café Luna—Preliminary Set List for January 27, 2006—Piano Gig (at 1742 W. 99th St.)

It is not there anymore---it has a new name and it is now a pizza place, but it was once a watering hole to try to get my big break in piano gigging. The set list was quite versatile.........

 SET 1

Consolation no. 3 in D-flat Major (Liszt)
Impromptu in A-flat minor, op. 90 (Schubert)
Fantasy-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, op. 35 (Chopin)
Nocturne in Bb minor, op. 9, no. 1 (Chopin)
Nocturne in E-flat major, op. 9, no. 2 (Chopin)
Mazurka in C-sharp minor, op. 30, no. 4 (Chopin)
Sonnet no. 104 from Petrarch (Chopin)
Air on the G String (Bach)
Mozart, "Rondo alla Turca" from Sonata no. 11 (Mozart)
Mascarade Waltz  by Aram Khachaturian, arr. by Alexander Dolukhanian
Buciemeana, or "Dance of Butschum"--Romanian Folk Dance no. 4 (Bartok)
Gymnopedie no. 1 (Satie)
Il canzone, based on the transcription of "Nessun maggior dolore" from Rossini's
     opera, Otello (arr. by F. Liszt)

SET 2

Prelude no. 1 (Gershwin)
Prelude no. 2, "Blues" (Gershwin)
Prelude no. 3 (Gershwin)
Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin)
Intermezzo from "Faschingsswank aus Wien" (Schumann)
Romance from "Fashchingsswank aus Wien" (Schumann)
Polichinelle (Rachmaninov)
Prelude in C-sharp minor (Rachmaninov)
Sabre Dance (Khachaturian), arr. by Henry Levine
Nocturne in F minor, op. 55, no. 1 (Chopin)
Waltz in C-sharp minor, op. 39, no. 7 (Brahms)
Waltz in D minor, op. 39, no. 9 (Brahms)
Waltz in Ab major, op. 39, no. 15 (Brahms)
Waltz in B major, op. 39, no. 1 (Brahms)

SET 3

Composed-out improvisations

"So Happy Together" (The Turtles)
"Can't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington)
"Summertime" from "Porgy and Bess" (Gershwin)
"Shall We Dance", from The King and I
"Children Won't Listen, from Into The Woods (
"Memory" from Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Fantasy on "I Got Rhythm", from Crazy For You (Gershwin)
"My Favorite Things," from The Sound of Music

"Luck Be A Lady Tonight" from Guys and Dolls

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