Class Guide Summer 2021 Class 1: July 1, 2021 Orchestra 101 Repertoire Click on the links to enjoy You Could Google it, or… Donato’s favorite YouTube recordings. Description If you find a broken link, We’ll start by tackling a pressing question: just please just Google the what does a conductor do, anyway? After we’ve piece instead. shone some light on that issue (with the aid of Role of the Conductor (all many conductors and orchestras) we’ll take a bird’s short excerpts) eye look at the orchestra from its early days to the Ludwig van Beethoven: present, culminating in a trip through the orchestra’s Symphony No. 9, II sections and instruments. Johann Sebastian Bach: B Minor Mass, Kyrie Outline Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose • Role of the Conductor Suite, Laideronette Empress of the Pagodas » Tempo History of the Orchestra (all » Playing Style short excerpts) » Stafng the Orchestra Antonio Stradella: Sinfonia No. 2 » Instrumental Balances and Timbre J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, Gavotte » Overall Ethos Johann Stamitz: Symphony in D • The Orchestra Down the Years Major, Op. 2 No. 1, I » The Earliest Orchestras Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 101 in D Major “Clock”, IV » The Baroque Orchestra Ludwig van Beethoven: » The Early Classical Orchestra Symphony No. 9, II » The Classical Orchestra in Maturity Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 in A Minor “Scottish”, IV » The Early Romantics Richard Wagner: Prelude to Die » The Late Romantics Meistersinger von Nürnberg Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et » The Early 20th Century Eforescence Chloë, Lever du Jour » Today’s Orchestra Mason Bates: Alternative • The Modern Orchestra Instruments Energy, II » Variations on a Theme The Modern Orchestra Benjamin Britten: Young » Demonstration Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, excerpts and fugue Donato Cabrera, music director – Scott Foglesong, instructor – Sunshine Defner, sr. director of education.