Bandorama Features Les Deutsch

The concert, presented by the Caltech-Occidental Concert Band, the two Caltech Jazz Bands, and the Caltech Chamber Singers, will feature the musical talents of Deutsch, a Caltech alumnus who studied mathematics and engineering (B.S. 1976, M.S. 1977, Ph.D. 1980). Deutsch is also the chief engineer for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Interplanetary Networks Directorate, the organization responsible for providing communications, tracking, and network services across the solar system and within JPL.

He is an accomplished performer on keyboards, brass, woodwinds and percussion, and also composes classical and jazz music. He is the organist for Caltech's convocation brass and percussion at commencement and has been an active member of many local jazz groups since 1974.

In addition to playing organ and Dixieland jazz, Deutsch performs in several Caltech ensembles. He has played trumpet, trombone, alto and baritone sax, clarinet, flute, piccolo, tuba, horn, and percussion with the Concert Band and trumpet, sax, and piano in the Thursday Jazz Band.

The program for the concert will include:

Concert Band

Mendelssohn - Overture for Band

Von Suppé - Jolly Robbers, conducted by Caltech Professor Paul Asimow

Les Deutsch - Fantasy and March for Three Trumpets

Les Deutsch - Theme and Perturbations, in which Deutch plays solo piccolo, trumpet, tuba and saxophone.

Star Wars Medley, conducted by Caltech senior Chad Kishimoto

Monday Jazz Band

Leslie Deutsch - Prelude and Fugue in G Minor

Put a Lid On It

Leslie Deutsch - choral music, performed by the Caltech Chamber Singers

Thursday Jazz Band

Kid From Red Bank, a Count Basie tune featuring Deutsch on piano

Leslie Deutsch - Suite 343

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