Concert Orchestra
The Concert Orchestra is a full symphony orchestra performing at an intermediate level.
This orchestra provides experience in rehearsing and performing a wide range of shorter works from the Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary periods. Overtures, marches, suites, and isolated symphonic movements make up much of this group's repertoire.
Sample Repertoire
- BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture
- BIZET Carmen Suite
- COPLAND Variations on a Shaker Melody
- DVORAK Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, "From The New World", Finale
- MOZART Symphony No. 31, "Paris", in D major, 1st movement
- RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian Easter Overture
- IVES Fugue for Small Orchestra, from Symphony No. 4
- SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8 in B minor, "Unfinished"
- TCHAIKOVSKY Marche Slave
- WILLIAMS March from Raiders of the Lost Ark
We have also performed works by contemporary Connecticut composers:
- Christopher BRUBECK Ascension (2001) World Premiere
- Joseph RUSSO Chamber Symphony: 1. Maestoso