DEBBIE ALLEN’S PLAYLIST

Saturday, February 12, 2022,  8 pm
Paramount Theatre, Oakland

Rickey Minor, conductor
Debbie Allen, guest Artist

TRIUMPHAL MARCH from Aida
Giuseppe Verdi

Oakland Symphony Chorus
& Oakland Symphony

A BOY LIKE THAT from West Side Story
Music by Leonard Bernstein 
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Shawnette Sulker, Deborah Martínez Rosengaus, & Oakland Symphony

100 WAYS
James Ingram
Arr. by Kev Choice

Kev Choice band, Martin Luther McCoy
& Oakland Symphony

SAY IT LOUD 
James Brown 
Arr. by Adam Theis & Brian Adam McCune

Jazz Mafia & Oakland Symphony

STOP! IN THE NAME OF LOVE 
Diana Ross 
Arr. by Brian Adam McCune

Jazz Mafia & Oakland Symphony

GHOSTS OF COLUMBINE from Freeze Frame
Debbie Allen
Arr. by Kev Choice

Kev Choice Band, Ryan Nicole,
Karega Bailey, & Oakland Symphony

STAND from Freeze Frame
Debbie Allen
Arr. by Lenny Wee

Matthew Johnson solo vocal,
Kev Choice Band, Ja Ronn & FLOW,
& Oakland Symphony 

Intermission

PETER AND THE WOLF
Sergei Prokofiev

Oakland Symphony

MY CHERIE AMOUR
Stevie Wonder
Arr. by Andy Weiner 

Matthew Johnson solo vocal,
Kev Choice Band, Yvette Pylant,
Moorea Dickason, Solas B. Lalgee,
& Oakland Symphony

WADE IN THE WATER 
Traditional African-American spiritual
Arr. by Ellen Hoffman and Terrance Kelly 

Inspired by the music to Wade in the Water 
as performed by Alvin Ailey Dance Theater

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir,
Isa Chu, Dan Strauss, Terrance Kelly
Ellen Hoffman piano, Jon Herrera electric bass Miles Lathan drums,
& Oakland Symphony

TAKE THE A TRAIN
Duke Ellington 

Vocal Rush

POEM ON STATUS
Vivian Ayers
Original music by Rickey Minor

Kev Choice piano & Vivian Nixon Recitation

SAILING
Christopher Cross

Kev Choice piano, Norm Nixon

FAME
Music by Michael Gore
Lyrics by Dean Pitchford
Arr. by Lenny Wee

Kev Choice, Yvette Pylant, Moorea Dickason, 
Katie's Dance Studio, & Oakland Symphony

The 2021-2022 Season of Oakland Symphony is generously funded in part by the East Bay Music Fund at the East Bay Community Foundation; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and supported by the Oakland City Council and funded by the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program.