Our Approach to Music
Selecting sheet music to play during the orchestra’s formative phase was no simple matter. To become a full-fledged orchestra, there would need to be both wind and string players. Finding appropriate music for both wind and strings was but one challenge. John also discovered that amateur wind instrumentalists who live in smaller communities tend to join bands rather than orchestras.
The music written for a full orchestra would sound thin without flutes, trumpets, trombones, or saxophones. In order to attract the necessary wind instrumentalists, music had to be available. A repertoire needed to be built that would allow the group to transition from a small ensemble adding parts as new and different instrumentalists joined the group.
Examples of compilations include:
- Classical Quartets for All from the Baroque to the 20th Century;
- Movie Favorites;
- Broadway Favorites;
- Movie Quartets for All;
- Quartets for All;
- Pop Quartets for All.
The Music We Play
- Fantasie – Mozart
- Menuet from the 11th Military Symphony – Haydn
- Capriol Suite – Warlock
- Concerto in D Major (for harp with strings) – Vivaldi
- Ode to Joy – Beethoven
- Rondeau – Mouret
- Air in D – Handel
- Hornpipe in D – Handel
- La Rejouissance – Handel
- Trumpet Tune – Clarke
- Caro Mio Ben – Giordanni
- O Mio Babbino Caro – Puccini
- My Favorite Things – Rodgers
- Oh What a Beautiful Morning – Rodgers
- Gabriel’s Oboe (for oboe, flute or violin with strings) – Morricone
- Brandy Snap – Nelson
- Butter Cup Lane – Nelson
- A Simple Movement – Nelson
- Scherzo – Nelson
- Adagio K.170 – Mozart
- Allegretto K. 156 – Mozart
- Allegretto Op2. No 5 – Haydn
- Born Free – John Barry
- Bouree in F – Babel
- Dona Nobis Pachem – Mozart
- Entr’acte K.138 – Mozart
- Gabriel’s Oboe – Ennio Morricone
- Highlight from the Sound of Music – Rodger and Hammerstein
- Lean On Me – Bill Withers
- Menuetto Op.2 No. 4 – Haydn
- O Mio Babbino Carro – Puccini
- Old folks at Home – Stephen Foster
- Plucky Fellow
- Presto K.156 – Mozart
- Rondeau – Mouret
- Straussiana – Johann Strauss
- The Bird – Haydn
- The Swan – Saint-Saens
- Theme and Variations – Metcalf
- Two Minuets – Rameau
- William Tell Overture – Rossini
- Danny Boy – Londonderry Air
- Dona Nobi Pacem – W. A. Mozart (2011)
- Lara’s Theme From Doctor Zhivago – Maurice Jarre
- Lean on Me – Bill Withers (2011)
- Simple Gifts – Shaker Hymn (2011)
- Star Spangled Banner – Francis Scott Key
- Symphonic Miniature (2011)
- William Tell Overture – G. Rossini (2011)
- Your Raise Me Up – Brendan Graham (2011)
B. SYMPHONIC & CONCERTOS
- Brook Green Suite – Gustav Holt
- Concerto In D Minor – J.S. Bach
- Mendelson Simfonia No. 9
C. COMPILATIONS
- Brentwood String Orchestra Folio – 16 Pieces
- Rodgers & Hammerstein String Colors – 14 Pieces
- String Colors – 14 Pieces
- Air #11 – Handel
- Arioso – Bach
- Bourree from Water Music Handel
- Canon – Pachelbel
- Corrente – Corelli
- Dona Nobis Pacem – Mozart
- Greensleeves
- Largo from Four Seasons – Vivaldi
- Lean on Me – Bill Withers
- Ode to Joy – Beethoven
- Psalm XVIII – Marcello
- Rondeau – Mouret
- Salute to the Lady ( Patriotic medley)
- Simple gifts – Shaker Hymn
- Symphonic Miniature – Heilmann
- Where’er You Walk – Handel
- William Tell Overture – Rossini
- You Raise Me Up – Graham & Loveland
- Classical Contours – Frost