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         Repertoire

Below is a list of some of the pieces performed by the five YOBC ensembles in the past fifteen years. The pieces are listed alphabetically by composer.

   Symphony

Rumanian Folk Dances, Sz. 68

Béla Bartok

 

 

Egmont Overture, Op. 84

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

 

Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (“Pastorale”)

 

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36

 

 

 

L’Arlesienne Suite

Georges Bizet

 

 

Academic Festival Overture

Johannes Brahms

 

 

Prairie Journal

Aaron Copland

 

 

Concerto grosso, Op. 6, No. 8 in G minor

Arcangelo Corelli

 

 

Symphony No. 7, Op. 70

Antonin Dvorak

Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88

 

Symphony No. 9, Op. 95 (“From the New World”)

 

Slavonic Dance Op. 46, No. 8

 

 

 

Pelléas et Mélisande Suite

Gabriel Fauré

 

 

Peer Gynt Suite

Edvard Grieg

 

 

“London” Symphony No. 104

Franz Joseph Haydn

 

 

The Circus Band

Charles Ives

 

 

Intermezzo from „Cavelleria Rusticana“

Aram Khachaturian

 

 

Intermezzo

Zoltán Kodály

 

 

Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

W.A. Mozart

 

 

Symphony No. 7 in C major

Franz Schubert

 

 

The Moldau (from "Ma Vlast") Bedrich Smetana
   
Radetzky March, Op. 228 Johann Strauss, Sr.
   
Berceuse and Finale from "The Firebird Suite" Igor Stravinsky
   

Overture to "Nabucco"

Giuseppe Verdi

Finale Act II of  "Aida"  (Triumphal March and Ballet)

 

 

  Wind Ensemble

 

 

Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of

 

Winds and Percussion

P.D.Q. Bach

   

March to the Scaffold

Hector Berlioz  (arr. R. Mark Rodgers)

 

 

España Rhapsody

Emmanuel Chabrier  (trans. Lucien Cailliet)

 

 

Buckaroo Holiday from “Rodeo”

Aaron Copland

Fanfare for the Common Man

 

An Outdoor Overture

 

 

 

Scene from “The Louvre”

Norman Dello Joio

 

 

The Lord of the Rings from Symphony No. 1

Johan de Meij

 

 

Toccata for Band

Frank Erickson

 

 

Symphony No. 3 for Band

Vittorio Giannini

 

 

American Salute

Morton Gould  (trans. Philip J. Lang)

 

 

Music for the Royal Fireworks

Georg F. Handel

 

 

The London Symphony, First Movement

Franz Joseph Haydn   (arr. Merle J. Isaac)

 

 

March from “Symphonic Metamorphoses”

Paul Hindemith  (trans. Keith Wilson)

 

 

Mars and Jupiter from “The Planets”

Gustav Holst  (trans. Clark McAlister)

First Suite in E flat for Military Band, Op. 28

 

 

 

William Byrd Suite

Gordon Jacob

 

 

Third Suite for Band

Robert Jaeger

 

 

Adagietto from Symphony No. 5

Gustav Mahler  (trans. Jerry Nowak)

 

 

Barber of Seville

Gioachino Rossini  (trans. Kenneth Singleton)

 

 

Festive Overture, Op. 96

Dmitri Shostakovich

Finale from Symphony No. 5

 

 

 

Finale from Symphony in F minor

Peter I. Tchaikowsky   (arr. V.F. Safranek)

March Slav, Op. 31

                                        (trans. L. Daehn)

 

 

English Folk Suite

Ralph Vaughan Williams

 

 

 

 

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