You are programming a fifteen minute classical music concert consisting of a single work or multiple works; it doesn't matter how many, as long as the piece(s) are whole works unto themselves. No pieces or parts; no single movements or sections of a larger work. Get it?
What's on the program?
John Cage's 4'33 played in various ways. First, period instruments, second, solo piano, then string quartet, then full orchestra, then concerto grosso, then a virtuosic cadenza by solo violin. That should fit it. If it doesn't, I'll direct the performers to play at presto.
Quote from: imperfection on October 24, 2008, 01:03:57 PM
John Cage's 4'33 played in various ways. First, period instruments, second, solo piano, then string quartet, then full orchestra, then concerto grosso, then a virtuosic cadenza by solo violin. That should fit it. If it doesn't, I'll direct the performers to play at presto.
Very entertaining, watching the various groups perform the same piece. But then again, it's never the same piece.
Mosolov: Iron Foundry (4')
*intermission* (1') ;D
Stravinsky: Fireworks (4')
R. Strauss: Befreit (6')
--Bruce
Quote from: bhodges on October 24, 2008, 01:23:24 PM
Mosolov: Iron Foundry (4')
*intermission* (1') ;D
Stravinsky: Fireworks (4')
R. Strauss: Befreit (6')
I don't own any of those. :-[
Quote from: mn dave on October 24, 2008, 01:28:03 PM
I don't own any of those. :-[
We gotta fix that! (I think you'd probably love the Strauss song...has a very beautiful long melodic line.)
--Bruce
Scriabin - Rêverie (4')
Ravel - Menuet Antique (6')
Tubin - Elegy For Strings (4')
Encore: Elgar - Smoking Cantata (1') >:D
Quote from: Corey on October 24, 2008, 01:43:58 PM
Scriabin - Rêverie (4')
Ravel - Menuet Antique (6')
Tubin - Elegy For Strings (4')
Encore: Elgar - Smoking Cantata (1') >:D
I have the Ravel in this one.
Marriage of Figaro Overture - Mozart (I guess that can count as it is often played as a stand alone piece)
Down A Country Lane - Copland
Gretchen and the Spinning Wheel - Schubert
Slavonic Dance #8 - Dvorak
The Prelude to Tristan und Isolde and then the next 5 minutes to make out..... and if you can't finish in five minutes, you'll be kicked out anyway! 8)
Quote from: hornteacher on October 24, 2008, 03:08:07 PM
Marriage of Figaro Overture - Mozart (I guess that can count as it is often played as a stand alone piece)
Down A Country Lane - Copland
Gretchen and the Spinning Wheel - Schubert
Slavonic Dance #8 - Dvorak
That's a pretty darn exciting concert (I don't have the Copland in that one).
Quote from: G$ on October 24, 2008, 03:42:34 PM
The Prelude to Tristan und Isolde and then the next 5 minutes to make out..... and if you can't finish in five minutes, you'll be kicked out anyway! 8)
How does one
finish making out? ;D
Quote from: mn dave on October 24, 2008, 01:47:07 PM
I have the Ravel in this one.
The Scriabin I found on Järvi's set of the symphonies — little more than a flourish, but it's a tasty morsel.
The Tubin elegy I have on a disc of Estonian chamber music played by the Talinn Quartet. On the disc it's played by string quartet, but I assume since it's labeled "for strings", that an arrangement for larger ensemble exists.
Here's one:
Trio Elegiaque No. 1 in G Minor
Rachmaninoff
Faure Pavane
The Typewriter - Leroy Anderson
Barber's Adagio for Strings
Bruckner: Overture in G Minor
Scriabin: Prelude No. 4 in E minor
Vaughan Williams - The Lake on the Mountains
Vaughan Williams - Six Studies in English Folksong
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Poulenc - Exultate Deo
Faure - Ave Maria
Poulenc - Salve Regina
Durufle - Notre Pere
The times of the latter are from memory, so may be a minute or so too long, depending on recording.
Edit: and if I cheated like other people I would've done something with valse triste 0:)
How about the Minute Waltz played 15 times?
15 times too many.
Quote from: Szykniej on October 24, 2008, 06:07:42 PM
Faure Pavane
The Typewriter - Leroy Anderson
Barber's Adagio for Strings
Creamy on the ends with nuts in the middle. ;)
Quote from: Keemun on October 24, 2008, 06:22:43 PM
Bruckner: Overture in G Minor
Scriabin: Prelude No. 4 in E minor
Hmm.
La Valse
Here's a few I came up with:
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Ligeti - Fanfares (3'35")
Ligeti - Arc-en-ciel (3'45")
Rzewski - Sideshow (3'45")
Messiaen - Noël (3'55")
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Webern - Six Bagatelles for String Quartet (3'50")
Kurtág - Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky (11'10")
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Górecki - 3 Olden Style Pieces (10')
Pärt - Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (5')
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Adams - Lollapalooza (6'40")
Adams - Tromba Lontana (4'10")
Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine (4'10")
Quote from: mn dave on October 24, 2008, 06:58:25 PM
Hmm.
Didn't think you'd see Bruckner in this thread did you? ;D
Quote from: mn dave on October 24, 2008, 04:47:49 PM
How does one finish making out? ;D
When you're ready to dodge some bullets, i means you're finished.
I'd make myself a little symphony in miniature.
YAMADA Overture in D major (3.30)
LALO Scherzo in D minor (4.45)
KHACHATURIAN Gayaneh's Adagio (5.15)
IBERT Finale from Divertissement (2.00)
TOTAL TIME: 15 minutes 30 seconds
Except that you said "no excerpts from larger works," unfortunately, so I would ditch that program and use this one:
LALO Scherzo in D minor (4.45)
VERDI La traviata, overture (3.30)
SUPPE Pique Dame overture (7.00)
For the moment excluding opera from my definition of larger works.
Webern: Five Pieces for Orchestra, op 5, followed by Symphony, op 21.
Bartok: String Quartet No 3
Prokofiev: Toccata, followed by Scriabin: Vers la Flamme, followed by Ligeti: L'escalier du diable.