Member program. Dan Fine, Walter Gwardyak, Chris Jeffers, Walter Mayo, Mohamed Shams.

1. Mohammed Shams, former Storrs Scholar, will perform several of Earl Wild's etudes based on George Gershwin songs:
The Man I Love
Fascinatin' Rhythm
I Got Rhythm
(Encore TBA)

2. Bridget Gilchrist (flute) Dan Fine (piano) and Walter Mayo (string bass) will play:

"Baroque and Blue" a movement from Suite for Flute and Piano by Claude Bolling
Love Theme from "Spartacus" by Josef Lateef
The Nearness of You by Hoagy Carmichael
St. Thomas by Sonny Rollins

3. Guests Joe Deugenio and Jack Pott will discuss and perform music from "Letter From Italy", an oratorio to be performed by Greater Middletown Chorale, Hartford Chorale and Hartford Symphony Orchestra on May 4, 2017 at the Bushnell.

4. Walter Gwardyak (piano) Andrew Mayo (electric guitar) and Walter Mayo (string bass) will play:

The Way You Look Tonight by Jerome Kern
My Funny Valentine by Rogers and Hart
Night and Day by Cole Porter
C Jam Blues - Duke Ellington