Yorktown HS Orchestras 5200 Yorktown Blvd., Arlington VA 22207

PROGRAM

Yorktown Chamber Orchestra

 Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 8

     ..... Arcangelo Corelli

A beautiful work from the Italian Baroque, featuring the famous Pastorale

Simple Symphony

     ..... Benjamin Britten

Two movements from Britten’s orchestral version of piano pieces he wrote as a child. A great masterwork of the string orchestra repertoire; neither simple, nor exactly a symphony

Arlington Traditional School Orchestra

Fiddler's Hoedown

     ..... Robert Gillespie

with a fiddling interlude by Andrew Dabczynski and Bob Phillips

 Swanson 6^th Grade Strings

Dempster March

     ..... Thomas Hartman

1812 Overture

     ..... Pyotr Illich Tchaikowsky

Andrew Balent’s arrangement of three of the famous themes for beginning orchestra

Combined 6^th Grade Strings

Clog Dance

     ..... Elliot Del Borgo

A pyramid concert tradition: Williamsburg and Swanson in collaboration rather than rivalry

Williamsburg 6^th Grade Strings

Russian Music Box

     ..... Soon Hee Newbold

Tribal Dance

     ..... Brian Balmages

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WMS Concert Orchestra

Pavane from Renaissance Suite

     ..... Elliot Del Borgo

The Harmonious Blacksmith Suite

     ..... George Frederic Handel,

           arr. Isaac

Selected by Merle Isaac from some of Handel’s most famous works                

 Combined 7^th & 8^th Grade Orchestras

March of the Meistersingers

     ..... Richard Wagner

Sandra Dackow’s grand arrangement, played by the largest middle school orchestra ever assembled in Arlington

Swanson String Orchestra

Three German Dances

     ..... Franz Josef Haydn

Dramatic Essay

     ..... Mark Williams

Drama! Contrast! Spiccato! Syncopation! Pianissimo! Fortissimo!

Fantasia for Strings

     ..... Elliot Del Borgo

Yorktown String Orchestra

Alice in Wonderland

     ..... Danny Elfman

With music drawn from Tim Burton’s film, there are no Disneyfied tunes here!

Minuetto and Country Dance

     ..... Ludwig van Beethoven

Merle Isaac arranged one of Beethoven’s most beloved piano melodies and followed it by a virtuoso showpiece for the first violins

Legend

     ..... David O’Fallon

Bartok and the Minor Blues Scale meet Heavy Metal