Great job at your spring concert! Thank you for a fantastic performance season!
We hope you have a great summer break! We are looking forward to seeing you at your next auditions and next season!
Spring Quarter 2025
April 30 Update
You are each doing great work learning your parts and coming to rehearsal prepared. Please add in some metronome practice to your practice routine so you start getting used to how all of the rhythms feel when you play them at the concert speed.
In general- the parts of the music that are technically easier to play rush ahead while the more challenging technical passages drag. Getting used to playing with a metronome at a set speed will help overcome this.
- Centennial Overture by William Hofeldt
- Winner of the 1987 National School Orchestra Association composition contest. William Hofeldt is an American composer born and raised in Chicago, IL. He taught middle school orchestra for 15 years in Wisconsin. He currently lives in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and his music is performed by school and youth orchestra ensembles around the country.
- This piece features each of the sections of our orchestra for extended melodic phrases, each with its own flavor and character.
- Centennial Overture Recording
- Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms, Arranged by Roy Phillippe
- Brahms composed 21 of these dances for piano and competed them in 1879.
- Most of them have been orchestrated (written for orchestra)
- Number 5 is one of the most famous and recognizable
- The Hungarian Dances are known for their contrasting style and character
- Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5- JW Pepper
- Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5- Hungarian Symphony Orchestra
- Capriccio Espagnol by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Arranged by Richard Meyer
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer who lived from 1844 to 1908. His most well-known and performed works are Scheherazade, Russian Easter Festival Overture, and this one- Capriccio Espagnol.
- Capriccio Espagnol is a five-movement work based on Spanish folk melodies. It was premiered in 1887 and has been immensely popular since.
- The five movements of the original are:
- Alborada
- Variazioni
- Alborada
- Scena e Canto Gitano
- Fandango Asturiano
- Capriccio Espagnol Recording
- TEMPO MARKINGS
- Centennial Overture
- Beginning- quarter note = 112
- 44- Piu mosso- quarter note = 116
- 66- Andante- quarter note = 80
- 92- Allegro Vivace- quarter note = 120
- Capriccio Espagnol
- Beginning- quarter note = 108
- 57- Piu mosso- quarter note = 144
- Centennial Overture
