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Summer POPS 2025!

"Renaissance Fare: from Elizabethan England to Harlem"

Friday, June 20, 6:30*

Saturday, June 21, 7:00

Monday, June 23, 7:00*

FREE TO ALL!  NO TICKET REQUIRED
(BRING LAWN CHAIR)

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featuring singers Xavier Bates & Destiny King

* rain location: Rife Performing Arts Center: 325 Wesley Drive, Mechanicsburg

PROGRAM

Elizabethan England and Renaissance Tales

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Procession of the Mastersingers, Richard Wagner, arr. Bruno Reibold

Five Courtly Dances from Gloriana, Benjamin Britten, arr. David Stone

Two Shakespeare Sketches, Ralph Vaughan Williams, arr. Muir Mathieson

The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha, Mitch Leigh, arr. Victor Lopez

 

Harlem Renaissance inspired

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Highlights from "Porgy & Bess", George Gershwin, arr. Rosario Bourdon

Minnie the Moocher, Cab Calloway, arr. Ralph Ford

Duke Ellington!, arr. Calvin Custer

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70's & 80's Renaissance

 

The Never Ending Story by Georgio Moroder & Keith Forsey, arr. Patrick Roszell

as heard in "Stranger Things"

Rocky Broadway, arr. Patrick Roszell

the underdog wins the fight: a rebirth of sorts!

Special thanks to our sponsor!

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