2:00PM-5:00PM
Light refreshments, docent led tours featuring club’s history and archives. Meet our members, tour the club, be entertained!
2:00PM-2:30PM
Jazz Trio from the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA)
The mission of ICYOLA is to cultivate musical expression as a vehicle for personal development, and to bring to fruition the full musical and academic potential of young inner city residents of Los Angeles. ICYOLA is the largest majority Black orchestra in America. ICYOLA teaches inner-city youth the great music of the world, and provides opportunities to perform that music in magnificent community settings, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall. ICYOLA instills the ancillary benefits that music instruction provides: problem-solving skills, critical thinking, self-reliance, self-confidence, self-discipline, and the crystallization and pursuit of meaningful purpose. The ICYOLA musicians are absolutely wonderful, a real treat!
2:30PM-3:00PM
Tap, tap….surprise…Diane Davisson Dancers delight!
For more than three decades The Diane Davisson Dancers have tapped into classic American tunes of the last century and demonstrated their rhythmic skill in spirited, original musical revues. Led by artistic director/choreographer Davisson, this unique company of Baby Boomers and Gen X’ers, who’ve grown older together, enjoy performing in various theatrical venues — they’ve even toured in Brazil — and for numerous charitable organizations and groups. Professionals offstage, the tap troupe’s members include a teacher, accountant, professor, real estate agent, writer and voiceover artist.
3:00PM-3:30PM
Jazz Trio from the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (ICYOLA)
3:30PM-4:00PM
The Radcliffe Pitches, Harvard’s oldest treble-voiced a cappella group, take the stage. The Pitches formed in 1975 at the historic Hasty Pudding Club. Today, the group is composed of 14 Harvard undergraduates who perform a repertoire inspired by artists such as The Andrews Sisters, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra. Visiting from Boston, the Radcliffe Pitches of 2022-2023 present a polished and engaging musical experience. An exceptional group of treble-voiced musicians, the Radcliffe Pitches are dedicated to preserving and performing the jazz standards and American tunes that have impressed audiences throughout the generations.
4:00PM-4:30PM
Meet and mingle with the Radcliffe Pitches
