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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

  2. Tchaikovsky, Piotr Ilyich

  3. Romeo and Juliet Overture

  4. 19’00

  5. 3(P).3(EH).2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – timp+2, hp - strings

  6. Jerod Tate

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

  8. 30’00

  9. 3(P).3(EH).3(bcl).3(cfg) – 4.3.3.1 – timp+3, hp, pf – strings

  10. Rental info

  11. Enchantment

  12. Jean Sibelius

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

  14. 30’00

  15. 2.2.2.2 – 4.3.3.0 – timp - strings

  16. Thea Musgrave

  17. Song of the Enchanter

  18. 5’00

  19. 2.2.2.2 - 2.2.3.0 - timp+2, hp, pf – strings

  20. Rental info

  21. Women and the Art of Strength

  22. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  23. Scheherazade, op. 35

  24. 42’

  25. 3(p).3(eh).2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – timp+5, hp - strings

  26. Leanna Primiani

  27. 1001 for Orchestra and Prerecorded Electronics

  28. 10’00

  29. 3.3.3.3 – 4.3.3.1- timp, perc, hp, pf, strings

  30. Rental info

  31. Saint and Saints

  32. Camille Saint-Saëns

  33. Dance macabre, op. 40

  34. 8’00

  35. 3(p).2.2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – timp+3, opt hp - strings

  36. Clarice Assad

  37. Bonecos de Olinda

  38. 08’00

  39. 3(P).3(EH).3.3 – 4.3.3.1 – timp+4 – strings

  40. Rental info

  41. Strictly Strings

  42. Antonin Dvorak

  43. Serenade, op. 22

  44. 27’

  45. String Orchestra

  46. Hanna Benn

  47. Where Springs Not Fail

  48. 8’00

  49. String Orchestra

  50. Rental info

  51. Classy Classical

  52. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

  54. 27’00

  55. 2.2.0.0 – 2.2.0.0 – cnt - strings

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

  57. Sinfonia in C

  58. 11’30

  59. 2.2.0.0 – 2.2.0.0 – timp, cnt – str

  60. Music purchase

  61. A Study in Pictures

  62. Modest Mussorgsky

  63. Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel)

  64. 35’00

  65. 3(2p).3(eh).3(bcl).3.(cfg) – 4.3.3.1 – asax, timp+5 (cel), 2hp - strings

  66. Kenji Bunch

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

  68. 20’00

  69. 3(p).3(eh).3(Eb).3(cfg) – 4.3.3.1 – timp+3, hp, pf - strings

  70. Rental info

  71. For the love of Brahms

  72. Johannes Brahms

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

  74. 39’00

  75. 2(p),2.2.3 – 4.2.3.0 – timp+1 – strings

  76. Bright Sheng

  77. Black Swan

  78. 7’00

  79. 2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp – strings

  80. Rental info

  81. Nod to the repeating motives

  82. Dmitry Shostakovich

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

  84. 45’00

  85. 3(p).2.3(Eb).3 – 4.3.3.1 – timp+4, 2hp, pf/cel – strings

  86. Germaine Tailleferre

  87. Overture

  88. 4’30

  89. 3(p).3(eh).2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp+4, 2hp, cel – strings

  90. Rental info

  91. Re(new)able New World

  92. Antonin Dvorak

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

  94. 40’00

  95. 2(p).2(eh).2.2 – 4.2.3.1 – timp+1 - strings

  96. Viet Cuong

  97. Re(new)al

  98. 10’45

  99. 2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp+3, pf – strings

  100. Purchase info

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