My oh my, I have missed writing to our Everything Conducting audience members!
It has been a pleasure to return to my love of finding interesting and terrific music by a diverse range of underrepresented composers. This list is especially for Music Directors, Artistic Administrators, and general music listeners that crave to hear a variety of interesting music performed with their local professional, university, community, or youth symphony orchestras.
As many of us have begun to perform regular concert seasons, I thought it would be fun to consider music that could provide interesting pairings with traditional favorite “tried and true” compositions.
Entries will follow the following format:
Theme Suggestion and/or commonalities
Composer Name (hyperlink to additional info about the composer)
Titles hyperlink to a recording
Length of composition
Instrumentation
Link to rental information via publisher or composer website
Love and all its glory
Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich
Romeo and Juliet Overture
19’00
3(P).3(EH).2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – timp+2, hp - strings
Ghost of the White Deer – Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra
30’00
3(P).3(EH).3(bcl).3(cfg) – 4.3.3.1 – timp+3, hp, pf – strings
Enchantment
Jean Sibelius
Symphony No. 5, op. 82, Eb major
30’00
2.2.2.2 – 4.3.3.0 – timp - strings
5’00
2.2.2.2 - 2.2.3.0 - timp+2, hp, pf – strings
Women and the Art of Strength
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, op. 35
42’00
3(p).3(eh).2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – timp+5, hp - strings
1001 for Orchestra and Prerecorded Electronics
10’00
3.3.3.3 – 4.3.3.1- timp, perc, hp, pf, strings
Saint and Saints
Camille Saint-Saëns
Dance macabre, op. 40
08’00
3(p).2.2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – timp+3, opt hp - strings
08’00
3(P).3(EH).3.3 – 4.3.3.1 – timp+4 – strings
Strictly Strings
Antonin Dvorak
Serenade, op. 22
27’00
String Orchestra
08’00
String Orchestra
Classy Classical
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 1, K. 100, D major
27’00
2.2.0.0 – 2.2.0.0 – cnt - strings
Marianna Martinez – (1744 – 1812) (1770 – age 26)
11’30
2.2.0.0 – 2.2.0.0 – timp, cnt – str
A Study in Pictures
Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel)
35’00
3(2p).3(eh).3(bcl).3.(cfg) – 4.3.3.1 – asax, timp+5 (cel), 2hp - strings
Symphony no. 1 – Lichtenstein Triptych (Lichtenstein Lithographs) – Mvt 1. Varoom!, Mvt 2. …We Rose Up Slowly, Mvt 3 - In the Car
20’00
3(p).3(eh).3(Eb).3(cfg) – 4.3.3.1 – timp+3, hp, pf - strings
For the love of Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4, op. 98, E minor
39’00
2(p),2.2.3 – 4.2.3.0 – timp+1 – strings
07’00
2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp – strings
Nod to the repeating motives
Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5, op. 47, D minor
45’00
3(p).2.3(Eb).3 – 4.3.3.1 – timp+4, 2hp, pf/cel – strings
04’30
3(p).3(eh).2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp+4, 2hp, cel – strings
Re(new)able New World
Antonin Dvorak
Symphony No. 9, op. 95, E minor
40’00
2(p).2(eh).2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – timp+1 - strings
10’45
2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp+3, pf – strings