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Recent Repertoire

"The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart."  - Gioacchino Rossini

Winter/Spring 2024

Symphony in G Major …............... Christoph W. Gluck

Serenade for Strings in E major …........... Arthur Foote

Serenade for Strings on Swedish Folk Melodies 

                                   by Max Bruch

Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra

                                  by Ralph Vaughan Williams

 

Fall 2023

Idyll Suite ….............................................. Leos Janacek

Symphony no. 1 ...............................… Joseph Bologne

Romance ................................................… Gerald Finzi

Christmas Troika ...............................… James Curnow

Bethlehem Down ….............................. Peter Warlock

A Vaughan Williams Christmas ..................… Wagner

 

 

Winter/Spring 2023 

Sinfonia no. 2 in D Major …............... Felix Mendelssohn

Serenade in g minor op. 242 .................... Carl Reinecke

Idyll for String Orchestra  …........................ Leos Janacek

Fantasia …...................................................... Ron Planting

An American in Paris ........................... George Gershwin

                             arranged by: Jerry Brubaker

 

Fall 2022

Capriol Suite for String Orchestra…...............Peter Warlock

String Symphony #2..............................….Felix Mendelssohn

Voyage…..........................................................John Corigliano

Serenade for Strings…...................................…Carl Reinecke

Christmas Troika….......................................….James Curnow

A Dickens Christmas Carol…............….Andrew Dabczynski

 

Summer 2022

Canzona Double String Orchestra.......... Giovanni Gabrielli 

Adagietto from Symphony no. 5 ..…………......Gustav Mahler

Sinfonia no. 2 in D Major ………………………Felix Mendelssohn

Strum ………………………………………………….... Jessie Montgomery

Serenade in g minor for String Orchestra (op. 242)

                                                                         by: Carl Reinecke

 

Spring 2022

Sinfonia in A  …………………………………………... Giuseppe Tartini

Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky ….... Anton Arensky

Novelletten  1 - 4  ……………………Samuel Coleridge -Taylor

Sky Before Dreams ......... Solo Harp and String Orchestra

                                                                          by: Ron Planting

Serenade for String Orchestra op.6 ….................  Josef Suk

 

Fall 2021

Nations Ancient and Modern ...................George Telemann

String Sextet in F Major ……………………..............Ignace Pleyel

Lyric Andante   ……………………………………............... Max Reger

Serenade for Strings ………………….......................... Dag Wiren

Seasonal/Christmas:

Suite of Carols ………………........................ Leroy Anderson

Dickenson’s Christmas Carol Suite with Narrator 

                                                            by: Andrew Dabczynski

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Winter/Spring 2021

Alleluia …..........................Randall Thompson/Brewster

String Quartet no.4 in c minor …....... Joseph Bologne

Piano Prelude no. 2 …..... George Gershwin/Brewster

Acht Stucke op. 40 lll ..........................Paul Hindemith 

Lyric Andante ….............................................Max Reger

Sarabande …...................................Camille Saint-Saens

Five German Dances …........................ Franz Schubert

Mediation …................................................... Joseph Suk

Sinfonia in A …...................................... Giuseppe Tartini

Serenade for Strings …................................. Tchaikovsky

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Fall 2020 

String Quintet in a minor op. 9………Carl Goldmark

String Sextet in F Major………….………Ignaz Pleyel

Souvenir de Florence………………Peter Tchaikovsky

Danzas de Panama for String Orchestra……William Grant Still

Adoration for String Orchestra……………..Florence Price

String Quartet in G Major………………........Florence Price

 

Spring 2020 

Symphony no. 1..............................Ludwig von Beethoven

Elegy for String Orchestra...................Peter Tchaikovsky

Serenade for String Orchestra.....................Joseph Suk

An English Suite......................................C. Hurbert Parry

Suite for Strings.......................................John Rutter

Prayer of St. Gregory...........................Alan Hovhaness

Concerto in D for Trumpet and Strings.....Giuseppe Torelli

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Fall 2019 

Palladio .......................................................Karl Jenkins

An English Suite .......................................Hubert Parry

Sospiri op. 70, Adagio for String Orchestra and Harp ...... Edward Elgar

Romance for Oboe and String Orchestra ...... Ron Planting

Concerto for Oboe and Violin in c minor ....... J.S. Bach

Serenade for Strings ..........................Josef Suk

Fantasia on ‘Greensleeves’ ...........R. Vaughan Williams

Suite of Carols ...............................Leroy Anderson

 

Spring 2019 

Voyage ............................................ John Corigliano

Concerto Grosso in F Major op.6 #2 .... G. F. Handel

Symphony no. 34 in C Major .............. W. A. Mozart

Lullaby .......................................... George Gershwin

Idyll for Strings..................................... Leos Janacek

 

Fall 2018 

Serenade.................................Michael McLean

Idyll for Strings.............................Leos Janacek

Nocturne from String Quartet no. 2....Alexander Borodine

Movement for String Orchestra.....Ron Planting

Rhythmic Variations.................Howard Hanson

Appalachia Waltz.......................Mark O’Connor

 

Spring 2018 

Symphony no.1 in Bb Major……………...William Boyce

Seven Last Words of our Lord and Savior…..Joseph Haydn

Two Elegiac Melodies op. 34……………Edvard Grieg

St. Paul’s Suite op. 29, no. 2……..Gustav Holst

Serenade for String Orchestra op. 11…………Dag Wiren

RaM @ Fairfax Regional 11-23-2019 (44).J
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Contact

Ruth Erbe, Music Director
Springfield, Virginia
Email: rerbe4@gmail.com

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