Perfect Pairings! Anna's next 10 x 10

From Anna’s ‘Composers you should know’ series...

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 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

I hope you enjoy!

Anna

1. Love and all its glory

   1. Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

      1. Romeo and Juliet Overture

         1. 19’00

         2. 3(P).3(EH).2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – timp+2, hp - strings

   2. Jerod Tate

      1. Ghost of the White Deer – Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra

         1. 30’00

         2. 3(P).3(EH).3(bcl).3(cfg) – 4.3.3.1 – timp+3, hp, pf – strings

         3. Rental info

2. Enchantment

   1. Jean Sibelius

      1. Symphony No. 5, op. 82, Eb major

         1. 30’00

         2. 2.2.2.2 – 4.3.3.0 – timp - strings

   2. Thea Musgrave

      1. Song of the Enchanter

         1. 5’00

         2. 2.2.2.2 - 2.2.3.0 - timp+2, hp, pf – strings

         3. Rental info

3. Women and the Art of Strength

   1. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      1. Scheherazade, op. 35

      2. 42’

      3. 3(p).3(eh).2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – timp+5, hp - strings

   2. Leanna Primiani

      1. 1001 for Orchestra and Prerecorded Electronics

         1. 10’00

         2. 3.3.3.3 – 4.3.3.1- timp, perc, hp, pf, strings

         3. Rental info

4. Saint and Saints

   1. Camille Saint-Saëns

      1. Dance macabre, op. 40

         1. 8’00

         2. 3(p).2.2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – timp+3, opt hp - strings

   2. Clarice Assad

      1. Bonecos de Olinda

         1. 08’00

         2. 3(P).3(EH).3.3 – 4.3.3.1 – timp+4 – strings

         3. Rental info

5. Strictly Strings

   1. Antonin Dvorak

      1. Serenade, op. 22

         1. 27’

         2. String Orchestra

   2. Hanna Benn

      1. Where Springs Not Fail

         1. 8’00

         2. String Orchestra

         3. Rental info

6. Classy Classical

   1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      1. Serenade No. 1, K. 100, D major

         1. 27’00

         2. 2.2.0.0 – 2.2.0.0 – cnt - strings

   2. Marianna Martinez – (1744 – 1812) (1770 – age 26)

      1. Sinfonia in C

         1. 11’30

         2. 2.2.0.0 – 2.2.0.0 – timp, cnt – str

         3. Music purchase

7. A Study in Pictures

   1. Modest Mussorgsky

      1. Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel)

         1. 35’00

         2. 3(2p).3(eh).3(bcl).3.(cfg) – 4.3.3.1 – asax, timp+5 (cel), 2hp - strings

   2. Kenji Bunch

      1. Symphony no. 1 – Lichtenstein Triptych (Lichtenstein Lithographs) – Mvt 1. Varoom!, Mvt 2. …We Rose Up Slowly, Mvt 3 - In the Car

         1. 20’00

         2. 3(p).3(eh).3(Eb).3(cfg) – 4.3.3.1 – timp+3, hp, pf - strings

         3. Rental info

8. For the love of Brahms

   1. Johannes Brahms

      1. Symphony No. 4, op. 98, E minor

         1. 39’00

         2. 2(p),2.2.3 – 4.2.3.0 – timp+1 – strings

   2. Bright Sheng

      1. Black Swan

      2. 7’00

      3. 2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp – strings

      4. Rental info

9. Nod to the repeating motives

   1. Dmitry Shostakovich

      1. Symphony No. 5, op. 47, D minor

         1. 45’00

         2. 3(p).2.3(Eb).3 – 4.3.3.1 – timp+4, 2hp, pf/cel – strings

   2. Germaine Tailleferre

      1. Overture

         1. 4’30

         2. 3(p).3(eh).2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp+4, 2hp, cel – strings

         3. Rental info

10. Re(new)able New World

    1. Antonin Dvorak

       1. Symphony No. 9, op. 95, E minor

          1. 40’00

          2. 2(p).2(eh).2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – timp+1 - strings

    2. Viet Cuong

       1. Re(new)al

          1. 10’45

          2. 2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp+3, pf – strings

          3. Purchase info