Greensboro Symphony Youth Orchestra Repertoire List

Full list, Fall 2010-present
2021-2025 seasons in bold

Abels Global Warming

Andrée Overture in D (excerpt)

Bates                                   Rusty Air in Carolina

Beach Bal Masqué

Beethoven                         Overture to Egmont

Beethoven Symphony No. 7, mvt. II

Berlioz                                   Symphonie Fantastique, mvt. IV, mvt. I

Berlioz                                  “Hungarian March” from Damnation of Faust

Bernstein                             Overture to Candide

Bizet                                       Petite Suite: Jeux d'Enfants

Bizet                                       L'Arlesienne Suite, “Farandole”

Bizet                                     Selections from Carmen, Suites No. 1 and 2

Brahms                                Hungarian Dance No. 6

Britten Simple Symphony

Bruch                                     Violin Concerto, mvt. III, mvt. I

Bryant                   Dusk

Chabrier                              España

Coleridge-Taylor Ballade in a minor

Coleridge-Taylor “Dance” from Othello

Copland                              Our Town

Copland Variations on a Shaker Melody

Debussy                              Premiere Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra

Debussy              Clair de Lune (arr. Luck)

Dvorak                               Slavonic Dance No. 1, No. 8

Elgar                                     Chanson de Nuit
                                             Chanson de Matin

Elgar                                    Enigma Variations

Elgar                                    Cello Concerto, mvt. I

Elizondo Estampas Mexicanas, mvt. I

Enescu                                Romanian Rhapsody No. 1

Forsyth                                Viola Concerto, mvt. I

Gershwin                            Lullaby for Strings

Gershwin                            Rhapsody in Blue

Giddens / Abels Overture from Omar

Ginastera Four Dances from Estancia, mvt. I, “Los trabajadores agrícolas”

Glass                                   The Light

Glinka Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla

Gounod                               Ballet Suite from Faust

Hailstork Epitaph for a Man who Dreamed

Haydn                                  Symphony No. 100, “Military”

Haydn                                  Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, mvt. I

Hindemith Der Schwanendreher, mvt. I

Holst                                       “Jupiter” from The Planets        

Humperdinck                     Prelude to Hansel and Gretel

Ibert                                      Flute Concerto

Ives                                       The Unanswered Question

Jones                            Excursion into Philosophy

Joyce Side by Side

Kats-Chernin Dance of the Paper Umbrellas

Khatchaturian                    Masquerade Suite

Khatchaturian                    Violin Concerto

Kreisler Praeludium and Allegro

Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium

Mahler                                 “Blumine” (from Symphony No. 1)

Mahler Symphony No. 1, mvt. II

Marquez                             Danzon No. 2

Mayer Symphony No. 1, mvt. I

Mendelssohn                  Violin Concerto, mvt. I, mvt. III

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5, mvt. IV

Mendelssohn-Hensel Concert Overture in C major

Moussorgsky                     A Night on Bald Mountain

Mozart                                 Violin Concerto in G Major, mvt. I

Mozart                                 Overture to Abduction from the Seraglio

Offenbach                         Intermezzo and Barcarolle from Les Contes d'Hoffman

Phillips Concert Piece for Bassoon

Piazzolla                             Libertango (arr. Berauer)

Price Dances in the Canebrakes (arr. Still)

Prokofiev                           “Death of Tybalt” from Romeo and Juliet
                                          “Montagues and Capulets” from Romeo and Juliet

Ravel Mother Goose, mvt. V, “The Fairy Garden”

Reich                                  Music for Pieces of Wood

Reinecke                            Flute Concerto, mvt. I

Respighi Pines of Rome, mvt. IV, “Pines of the Appian Way”

Rimsky-Korsakov             Capriccio Espagnol

Rimsky-Korsakov             Scheherezade

Rosas                                  Sobre las Olas

Rutty                                    Waking Up Down at the Bottom of the Sea

Saint-Saëns                      Violin Concerto No. 3, mvt. III

Saint-Saëns                       Danse Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah

Saint-Saëns March Militaire Française from Suite Algerienne

Schubert                             Rosamunde (Zauberharfe) Overture

Schubert                             Symphony No. 8 (“Unfinished”)

Shostakovich                     Festive Overture

Sibelius                                 Finlandia

Sibelius In memoriam

Smetana                            The Moldau

Steinke Harrietlehre

Stölzel                       City Beautiful

Strauss, J.                Overture to Die Fledermaus

Strauss, J.               Blue Danube Waltzes

Strauss, J.                Kaiser Waltzes

Strauss, R.                Horn Concerto. No. 1

Strauss, R.                Feierlicher Einzug der Ritter Des Johannesordens

Stravinsky                          Fanfare for a New Theatre

Stravinsky “Berceuse” and “Finale” from The Firebird (1919)

Tchaikovsky                      March Slav

Tchaikovsky                        Piano Concerto No. 1, mvt. I

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Suite, mvts. I and II

Tchaikovsky                       Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

Tchaikovsky                        Selections from Nutcracker

Tchaikovsky                        Symphony No. 5, mvt. IV

Verdi                                    Triumphal March from Aida

Vaugahn Williams            Concerto Grosso, Op. 50, mvts. I and V

Von Suppe                           Poet and Peasant Overture

Wagner                                Overture to Rienzi

Weber                                  Bassoon Concerto

Weber                                  Clarinet Concerto No. 1, mvt. II

Weber                                  Andante und Rondo Ungarese for viola and orchestra