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

  1. Fantasie – Mozart
  2. Menuet from the 11th Military Symphony – Haydn
  3. Capriol Suite – Warlock
  4. Concerto in D Major (for harp with strings) – Vivaldi
  5. Ode to Joy – Beethoven
  6. Rondeau – Mouret
  7. Air in D – Handel
  8. Hornpipe in D – Handel
  9. La Rejouissance – Handel
  10. Trumpet Tune – Clarke
  11. Caro Mio Ben – Giordanni
  12. O Mio Babbino Caro – Puccini
  13. My Favorite Things – Rodgers
  14. Oh What a Beautiful Morning – Rodgers
  15. Gabriel’s Oboe (for oboe, flute or violin with strings) – Morricone
  16. Brandy Snap – Nelson
  17. Butter Cup Lane – Nelson
  18. A Simple Movement – Nelson
  19. Scherzo – Nelson

A PARTIAL 2013 PLAYLIST

  1. Adagio K.170 – Mozart
  2. Allegretto K. 156 – Mozart
  3. Allegretto Op2. No 5 – Haydn
  4. Born Free – John Barry
  5. Bouree in F – Babel
  6. Dona Nobis Pachem – Mozart
  7. Entr’acte K.138 – Mozart
  8. Gabriel’s Oboe – Ennio Morricone
  9. Highlight from the Sound of Music – Rodger and Hammerstein
  10. Lean On Me – Bill Withers
  11. Menuetto Op.2 No. 4 – Haydn
  12. O Mio Babbino Carro – Puccini
  13. Old folks at Home – Stephen Foster
  14. Plucky Fellow
  15. Presto K.156 – Mozart
  16. Rondeau – Mouret
  17. Straussiana – Johann Strauss
  18. The Bird – Haydn
  19. The Swan – Saint-Saens
  20. Theme and Variations – Metcalf
  21. Two Minuets – Rameau
  22. William Tell Overture – Rossini

A. MOSTLY TRADITIONAL

  1. Danny Boy – Londonderry Air
  2. Dona Nobi Pacem – W. A. Mozart (2011)
  3. Lara’s Theme From Doctor Zhivago – Maurice Jarre
  4. Lean on Me – Bill Withers (2011)
  5. Simple Gifts – Shaker Hymn (2011)
  6. Star Spangled Banner – Francis Scott Key
  7. Symphonic Miniature (2011)
  8. William Tell Overture – G. Rossini (2011)
  9. Your Raise Me Up – Brendan Graham (2011)

B. SYMPHONIC & CONCERTOS

  1. Brook Green Suite – Gustav Holt
  2. Concerto In D Minor – J.S. Bach
  3. Mendelson Simfonia No. 9

C. COMPILATIONS

  1. Brentwood String Orchestra Folio – 16 Pieces
  2. Rodgers & Hammerstein String Colors – 14 Pieces
  3. String Colors – 14 Pieces

  1. Air #11 – Handel
  2. Arioso – Bach
  3. Bourree from Water Music Handel
  4. Canon – Pachelbel
  5. Corrente – Corelli
  6. Dona Nobis Pacem – Mozart
  7. Greensleeves
  8. Largo from Four Seasons – Vivaldi
  9. Lean on Me – Bill Withers
  10. Ode to Joy – Beethoven
  11. Psalm XVIII – Marcello
  12. Rondeau – Mouret
  13. Salute to the Lady ( Patriotic medley)
  14. Simple gifts – Shaker Hymn
  15. Symphonic Miniature – Heilmann
  16. Where’er You Walk – Handel
  17. William Tell Overture – Rossini
  18. You Raise Me Up – Graham & Loveland
  19. Classical Contours – Frost