All-classical 2011 show ideas

[skywhopper]

Lots of great and somewhat untypical classical tunes in the 2010 season. But what pieces are you itching to hear again (The Planets? New World? Firebird? La Mer?) or for the first time on the drum corps field?

Someone in the Madison 2011 thread suggested Milhaud's La Creation du Monde, which I heartily endorse for SCV. I'm thinking Beethoven's sixth would translate really well, but corpsreps says it's only been done once! Other things I'd love to hear:

* Hindemith, Symphony in B-flat

* John Adams, Harmonielehre

* Michael Gordon, Terminal Velocity

Or you could base a whole show around the theme of Ives' The Unanswered Question.

[ouooga]

I'm saying all big band music in 2011!

[BDCorno]

Lots of great and somewhat untypical classical tunes in the 2010 season. But what pieces are you itching to hear again (The Planets? New World? Firebird? La Mer?) or for the first time on the drum corps field?

Someone in the Madison 2011 thread suggested Milhaud's La Creation du Monde, which I heartily endorse for SCV. I'm thinking Beethoven's sixth would translate really well, but corpsreps says it's only been done once! Other things I'd love to hear:

* Hindemith, Symphony in B-flat

* John Adams, Harmonielehre

* Michael Gordon, Terminal Velocity

Or you could base a whole show around the theme of Ives' The Unanswered Question.

I think The Unanswered Question might be received like the proverbial Baby Ruth in the punch bowl. I'm kind of partial to Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler"...lots of good material there...both accessible and modern without straying too far. Hope SCV does that one. I'd be interested to hear "1812 Overture" with synthesized cannons. Now THAT would be interesting!

[FHdork]

One could create amazing shows with music from:

Hindemith Mathis der Maler symphony

Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (yes yes...the overdone 18th variation is in here...but it's ONE of 20+ variations...there's a fabulous 11 1/2 minute show in there!

Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances - sorry, Phantom did NOT do (justice...) to S. D.

Janacek - I say it every year...Sinfonietta - it's all there

Kodaly - Glassmen did the wonderful composer FINE justice in 1999 - time for another taste...

R.R. Bennett - Suite of Old American Dances - not 'classical', as in not orchestral...but a fine work

Nielsen Symphony No. 3 - great opener - if not entire show

Nielsen Symphony. No. 2 - also great - no less great than 3

Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet - 90+ minutes of music from which numerous 11 1/2 minute shows could spring

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 - the ending alone is rock solid drum corps

Stravinsky - Rite of Spring - someone said it was to be Star's 94 show...well, they didn't do it - so it's ok now!

Boris Blacher - his take on the Paganini theme...same theme as Rachmaninoff used...but done completely differently - and well, too

Shostakovich 10 - Yes, the 2nd movement is amazing (and has yet to be given a credible run...) but movts. 3 and 4 are full of amazing stuff -

So much more...so little time -

[BDCorno]

One could create amazing shows with music from:

Hindemith Mathis der Maler symphony

Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (yes yes...the overdone 18th variation is in here...but it's ONE of 20+ variations...there's a fabulous 11 1/2 minute show in there!

Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances - sorry, Phantom did NOT do (justice...) to S. D.

Janacek - I say it every year...Sinfonietta - it's all there

Kodaly - Glassmen did the wonderful composer FINE justice in 1999 - time for another taste...

R.R. Bennett - Suite of Old American Dances - not 'classical', as in not orchestral...but a fine work

Nielsen Symphony No. 3 - great opener - if not entire show

Nielsen Symphony. No. 2 - also great - no less great than 3

Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet - 90+ minutes of music from which numerous 11 1/2 minute shows could spring

Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3 - the ending alone is rock solid drum corps

Stravinsky - Rite of Spring - someone said it was to be Star's 94 show...well, they didn't do it - so it's ok now!

Boris Blacher - his take on the Paganini theme...same theme as Rachmaninoff used...but done completely differently - and well, too

Shostakovich 10 - Yes, the 2nd movement is amazing (and has yet to be given a credible run...) but movts. 3 and 4 are full of amazing stuff -

So much more...so little time -

Ditto on Symphonic Dances. Fantastic piece!

[DrinkinOuttaCups]

How about some Brahms 4? One of my favorite symphonies ever.

I'll add more to this post later.

[DarrenE]

I think The Unanswered Question might be received like the proverbial Baby Ruth in the punch bowl. I'm kind of partial to Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler"...lots of good material there...both accessible and modern without straying too far. Hope SCV does that one. I'd be interested to hear "1812 Overture" with real cannons. Now THAT would be interesting!

I fixed that for you.

[mr.mello]

Haydn-Symphony 104 MVT 1

Vaughan Williams- Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

Bach- Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Mendelsshon- Midsummer Night's Dream

Debussy- Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun

Debussy- La Mer (yes again!)

Debussy- Fetes from Nocturnes

Debussy- Arabesque

Berlioz- Symphonie Fantastique (yes again!)

Edited August 18, 2010 by mr.mello

[hostrauser]

There is a TON of great music DCI hasn't touched, from both well-known and obscure composers. Pieces I've chosen or have on file for creating fantasy drum corps shows include...

Symphony No. 4, Mvt. I (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Russian Song No. 3 (Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Waltz from "Masquerade" (Aram Khachaturian)

A Tale of a Priest and His Worker, Balda (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Elegy from "The Human Comedy" (Ballet Ste. 3) (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Sentimental Romance from "Ballet Suite No. 2" (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Overture to "Les Vepres siciliennes" (Giuseppe Verdi)

Polonia Overture (Richard Wagner)

Symphonic Variations (Antonin Dvorak)

In the Power of Phantoms from "Summer Tale" (Josef Suk)

Beat Beat Drums from "Dona nobis pacem" (Ralph Vaughan Williams)

Interlude and Dance (Paul Creston)

Symphony No. 5, Mvt. I (Paul Creston)

Toccata (Paul Creston)

Dancing Girl in the Orient from "Sketches of the Desert" (Isotaro Sugata)

Fantasy on Two Folk Songs (Nikolai Budashkin)

The Living Room (Yuri Shishakov)

Dansa brasileira (Camargo Mozart Guarnieri)

Batuque (Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez)

Weapon Dance from "Ogelala" (Erwin Schulhoff)

Can-Can from "The Golden Age" (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Pe Loc from "Romanian Folk Dances" (Bela Bartok)

Buciumeana from "Romanian Folk Dances" (Bela Bartok)

The Vikings from "Fenland Suite" (Arthur Wills)

Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No. 7 (Antonin Dvorak)

Allegretto from "Katerina Ismailova" (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Im Krapfenwaldl (Strauss)

Symphony No. 4, Movement III & IV (Anton Bruckner)

Selections from "Alexander Nevsky" (Sergei Prokofiev)

Symphony No. 1, Movement IV - Finale (Gustav Mahler)

Orgiastic Dance from "Belkis, Queen of Sheba" (Ottorino Respighi)

Thalaba’s Fatal Languor / Ecstasy of Faith and Love from "Thalaba the Destroyer" (Granville Bantock)

Suffering (Symphony No. 5, Movement VII) (Philip Glass)

Prelude to "Attila" (Giuseppe Verdi)

The Bells, Mvt. II (Sergei Rachmaninoff)

The Lake at Evening (Charles Tomlinson Griffes)

Rapsodia for Orchestra (Yasushi Akutagawa)

Ellora Symphony (Yasushi Akutagawa)

Homenaje e Federico Garcia Lorca (Silvestre Revueltas)

Overture from "Prince Csongor and the Kobolds" (Leo Weiner)

The Fall of Berlin (Dmitri Shostakovich)

The Miraculous Mandarin (Bela Bartok)

La Valse - Finale (Maurice Ravel)

Roses from the South (Johann Strauss)

Beautiful Galatea Overture (Franz Von Suppe)

Fanfare for the Signal Corps (Howard Hanson)

La baigneuse de Trouville from "Le Maries de la Tour Eiffel" (Francis Poulenc)

Valse des depeches from "Le Maries de la Tour Eiffel" (Germaine Tailleferre)

Marche funebre from "Le Maries de la Tour Eiffel" (Arthur Honegger)

Suite Provencale (Darius Milhaud)

Symphony No. 1, Mvt. I (Witold Lutoslawski)

The Execution of Stepan Razin (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Moscow-Cheryomushki (Dmitri Shostakovich)

The Bolt (Dmitri Shostakovich)

Overture to La Forza del Destino (Guiseppe Verdi)

Symphony for solo piano, Mvt. IV (Charles-Valentin Alkan)

Song of India from "Sadko" (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)

March of the Moghul Emperors from "Crown of India" (Edward Elgar)

Revel from "Danzas Fantasticas" (Joaquin Turina)

Dance of the Gnomes (Ottorino Respighi)

Music for Symphony Orchestra, Mvt. II (Yasushi Akutagawa)

Symphony #1, Mvt. II (Vasily Kalinnikov)

Symphony #1, Mvt. IV (Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Bacchanale (Jacques Ibert)

Overture to "Ruslan and Ludmilla" (Mikhail Glinka)

Dance of Bacchus and Ariane from "Bacchus et Ariane" (Albert Roussel)

[Wadep66]

I'd like to see a new take on Pictures at an Exhibition --Crown could do this well

An all Hindemith Show-- End with March from Symphonic Metamorphosis (this wasn't done well the last time I heard it in DCI)

Rachmanninoff-- The Bells--not enough for a whole show but some killer stuff in there

Kabalevsky's Colas Breugnon Overture (Madison did ages ago)