Role Play: Orchestra Rep for a Concert

You have been named Director of a mid-major orchestra in a major with a mid-major budget (16 million.) You need to name your concert repertoire for the next six weeks. The amount of sales will determine the statue of the orchestra (in many ways.) What repertoire will you chose (six concerts)?

Have Fun!

Every major show, 4/year - 1 big crowdpleaser. 1-2 Local contemporary artists. 1 "deep album track" from a 2nd or 3rd tier great (Scriabin, Sibelius, Les Sixes, Big Five etc.), 1 lecturer on unifying theme of show. (2-3 hour show.)

Monthly - Large chamber show, 2-4 pieces to reinforce the themes from past/future major show, focusing on one big name and one local artist. (1-2 hr)

Weekly - Local artist night. (45-90 min)

Oh well i guess that's not quite the droids you were looking for. Cut that in thirds for 6-week schedule.

Not exhaustive but here's a start!

Week 1:

A Premiere

Tchaik 4

Week 2

"A Trip to France"

Dapnis and Chloe

Parade

Noctures

Espana

Week 3

Beethoven 7

A Premiere

Rachmaninoff/Paganini

Week 4

Sibelius 2

A Premiere

Trombone Concerto

Week 5

A Premiere

Visions of a Renaissance :phones:

Brahms 2

Week 6

Selections from La Boheme

Week 1:

Academic Festival Overture

A Major Classical period concerto, probably Mozart

Beethoven 5

Week 2:

Mahler 3

Week 3:

Tchaikovksy: Marche Slave

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 2

Week 4:

St. Matthew Passion (in English)

Week 5:

Sibelius Tone Poem, a la Finlandia or En Saga

New Premiere Concerto

Rite of Spring

Week 6:

Premiere Overture

Rachmaninov: Variations on a Theme of Pagannini

The Planets

^^^beautiful

Hmmmmmmmm... I wish I could get my idea in a good order, but I'm no music director :(

Week 1 - Symphonies for Statespeople

Hadyn - No 48 for Queen Maria Theresa

Purcell - Ode TO Birthday of Queen Mary (either selections or the whole thing - depends on what singers they could get)

Beethoven - Eroica Symphony

Week 2 - The Waltz

Johann Strauss - The Artists Life

Mahler - The First Symphony

Ravel - La Valse

Week 3 - Viola Concertos

Bach - Chaconne in D minor for Viola - pre- curtain raised.

Telemann - Viola Concerto

William Walton - Viola Concerto

premiere of Concerto Grosso featuring Viola premiere

Week 4 - Tone Poems

Debussy - Jeux

Schoenberg - 5 Pieces for Orchestra

Richard Strauss - Don Quixote

Week 5 - Overtures and Opera

Monteverdi - Selections from orfeo

Mozart - Overture to Magic Flute

Verdi - a selections from Rigoletto

Opera Scena Premiere

Week 6 - Endings

R Strauss - Death and Transfiguration

Tchaikovsky - pathetique Symphony

Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra

I would love to have had post WW2 pieces but as I am unsure of exactly who their audience is and we have only 6 weeks, I'd have another 6 week cycle a few months later where the focus if 20th/21st century - chamber orchestra and a few large orchestra pieces.

this is hard, here is my try

1:

Brahms 4

Barber 1

2:

Haydn: ...

Britten: Simple Symphony

Prokofiev 1 (and/or) Shostakovich 9

3:

Tschaikofsky: Manfred Symphony

Holst: st Paul suite

4:

Martin: Petite symphonie concertante (for harpichord, piano harp and strings)

Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments

5:

La Mer

a Permiere

6:

Bartok: concerto for Orchestra

Bartok: 1st piano concerto