OCRS June 2025

June 2025: Six June Birthday Composers and Much More!

OCRS June 2025

Half Off Books, Fullerton, June 28, 2025
Set list

Bob Pinsker: Baltimore Todalo (Blake, c. 1910?, (c) 1962), Lew Pollack (birthday composer) set: That's-A-Plenty (1914), Harry Fox Trot (1918), Cheatin' on Me (1925) (v), That Demon Rag (Russell Smith, 1912), Lily Rag (Charles Thompson, arr. Artie Matthews, 1914), Bunny Hug Rag (DaCosta, 1912), Black 'N Blue (A Finger Contusion) (Wendling and Kortlander, 1924), Clarence Woods: Sleepy Hollow Rag (1918), Graveyard Blues (1916), Guess the Composer set: It's The Breaks (1939), Roses For Juanita (1941), It's The Beat That Counts (1946), Out of Step (1941)
Christian Marino: The Entertainer (excerpt) (Joplin, 1902), Maple Leaf Rag (Joplin, 1899), Ragtime Arrangement of Amazing Grace (arr. Marino)
Barry Blakeley: Gladiolus Rag (Joplin, 1907), Music! Music! Music! (Stephen Weiss and Bernie Baum, 1949), Scott Joplin's New Rag (1912)
Andrew Barrett: Rose Leaves (Waltzes) (Charles B. Brown, 1910), Fox trot medley: Beside a Bubbling Brook (?), Carolina in the Morning (Donaldson, 1922), An Evening in Caroline (Donaldson, 1931) (arr. Barrett), Idyll of Autumn (Hoeptner, 2000)
Bob: Do Your Stuff (Fred Irvin, 1917)
Paul Orsi: Old Folks at Home (Foster, arr. Orsi, 1851), Tiger Rag (trad., arr. Jelly Roll Morton and Orsi), 12th Street Rag (Bowman, 1914, arr. Orsi)
Chris Palmese: 12th Street Rag (Bowman, in the style of Donald Lambert), Tea For Two (Youmans, 1924, arr. Palmese)
John Reed-Torres: Silver Maple (March and Two-Step) (J.P. Traxler, 1905), Wall Street Rag (Joplin, 1909), Ham And! (Marshall, 1908), Sunshine Cakewalk (Reed-Torres, 2014-16), Kinklets (Marshall, 1906)
Totals: 7 pianists, 34 selections including one three-tune medley