Music for Young Performers - Orchestra




		Composers Bureau Music for Young Performers Orchestra Full or Chamber Orchestra Samuel Adler Art Creates Artists for youth orchestra. Larry Bell Hansel and Gretel for narrator and orchestra. For ages 12 and under. Lauren Bernofsky Fanfare, for beginner brass quintet. The FJH Music Co., Inc. Musica Solaris, for intermediate brass quintet. The FJH Music Co., Inc. Passacaglia, for high school brass quintet. Self-published. Victoria Bond The Frog Prince, for narrator and orchestra. Moderate difficulty. Will Gay Bottje The Ballad Singer - high school. American Composers Alliance. Flavors - high school, difficult. American Composers Alliance. Dinos Constantinides Designs for Strings II for youth string orchestra. Ages 7-12. Landscape IV, for youth string orchestra. Ages 7-12. Paraprase of Designs, for youth orchestra. Ages 7-12. Emma Lou Diemer Youth Overture, 1959. Junior or Senior High School. Medium difficulty. Belwin Mills. Rondo Concertante, 1960. Senior High School. Medium difficulty. Boosey & Hawkes. Festival Overture, 1961. Senior High School or College. Fairly difficult. Theodore Presser/Elkan-Vogel. Daniel Dorff Fast Walk for high school orchestra. 3 minutes. MMB Music. Fanfare Overture for high school orchestra. 3 minutes. MMB Music. Marti Epstein Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra for solo cello, 4 celli, 2 violins, 2 pianos 8 hands and percussion. Ages 12-14. Joel Feigin Elegy, In Memoriam Otto Luening for orchestra. Medium difficulty. Arthur Gottschalk Overture: Measure for Measure for youth orchestra. Ages 14-18. Toussaint Overture for youth orchestra. Ages 14-18. Walter S. Hartley Present Joys (2002) for orchestra. Based on early American hymn tunes. High school. Karel Husa Overture ("Youth"). 5 minutes. Associated Music Publishers. Ages 16-18, Difficulty 5-6. Music for Prague 1968. 20 minutes. Associated Music Publishers. Ages 16-18, Difficulty 5-6. Symphonic Suite, 19 minutes. Associated Music Publishers. Ages 16-18, Difficulty 5-6 Two Sonnets by Michelangelo, 16 minutes. Associated Music Publishers. Ages 16-18, Difficulty 5-6. Fresque for Orchestra, 11 minutes. Associated Music Publishers. Ages 16-18, Difficulty 5-6. Concertino for Piano and Orchestra, 15 minutes. Schirmer. Ages 16-18, Difficulty 5-6. Fantasies for Orchestra, 19 minutes. Schirmer. Ages 16-18, Difficulty 5-6. Nocturne from Fantasies, 7 minutes. Schirmer. Ages 16-18, Difficulty 5-6. Festive Ode for Chorus and Orchestra, 4 minutes. HG. Ages 16-18, Difficulty 5-6. Musique d'Amateurs, 15 minutes. Schirmer. Ages 14-18, Difficulty 3-4. Warner Hutchsinon The Desert Shall Bloom As The Rose for Orchestra, high school. Neil A. Kjos. Samuel Jones Elegy for String Orchestra, high school Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, high school Listen Now, My Children, high school Overture for a City, high school Marvin Lamb Overture for Orchestra for high school orchestra, grade V-VI. JBII for oboe, flute and string orchestra, grade V-VI. Elizabeth Lauer Two Dances for chamber orchestra. Moderately difficult. Schubert Variations (arr.) for chamber orchestra. Orchestra parts - moderate, solo parts - moderately difficult. John Anthony Lennon Suite of Fables for youth orchestra and narrator. E.C. Schirmer. 15 minutes. Dan Locklair Dances for Orchestra for high school or college orchestra. Ricordi - Boosey & Hawkes. Donald Martino Divertisements for junior high school orchestra. Dantalian, Inc. Michael Mauldin Dawn at San Juan Mesa for junior high or high school orchestra. 6 minutes. Medium. The Carman's Whistle (arrangement of part of the William Byrd harpsichord piece). 3 minutes. High School. Medium. High Places for high school orchestra. 8 minutes. Medium to Difficult. Neil A. Kjos. Llanos for junior high orchestra. 4 minutes. Medium. Neil A. Kjos. Wilderness Scenes - 3 movements: Ridge Trail, Forest Fire, Whitewater. 7 minutes. Junior High Easy to Medium. Daniel McCarthy ...at the Edge for orchestra. Ages 12-18. Five Songs from the Summit for orchestra and cd. Ages 13-18. Neil McKay Evocations for youth orchestra, 8 min. Dance Overture for youth orchestra, 10 min. Music Sales/G. Schirmer. Jubilee, Variations on an American Theme for youth orchestra, 12 min. Symphony No.1 for youth orchestra, 20 min. Kalmus. Lewis M. Miller Overture to Tartuffe - for good high school or college orchestra. Overture to the School for Wives - for good high school or college orchestra. Joshua Missal Romeo and Juliet: Three Episodes - Senior High, difficult (4). Neil Kjos. A Short Overture - Senior High, difficult (4). Neil Kjos. Check with these publishers for more titles of Joshua M. Missal's music for young performers or contact the composer. C. Alan Publications Fountain Park Music Publishing Neil A. Kjos Music Company Really Good Music, LLC John Pozdro Waterlow Park for high school orchestra. Steven Rosenhaus Fantasia Adagio - High School, Medium-Difficult. Kitchen Percussion March - Junior High to High School, Medium. Warner Bros. Publications, Inc. Sussex Celebration - Junior High to High School, Medium. Virginia City Bagatelle - High School, Medium. Nevada Bagatelles - High School. Suite from "Critic" Junior High to High School. Short Symphony - Mixed. Kitchen Percussion March - Kitchen utensils & Junior High to High School. Sho-Jo-Ji - Junior High String Orchestra. Concerto Grosso - Junior High to High School String Orchestra. A Sea Song Suite - Junior High String Orchestra. Peter Sacco Three Meditations for Chamber Orchestra, suitable for performance as a Suite or separately. 12 1/2 minutes. Contemplation for Orchestra Michael Schelle Pygmies (11' youth orchestra) - Ages 9-17. Pygmies II (11' youth orchestra) - Ages 9-17. Raymond Songayllo Concert Overture: Westward the Pioneers. Junior High/High School. Variations on a Folk Song. High School. Eric Stokes The Greenhouse Effect for 1 or more of each: flute, clarinet, e-flat saxophone, horn, three percussion, viola, cello and bass. Optional subsitutions and/or additions. Ages 14-18, difficulty 4. Richard Swift Some Trees - for small orchestra, High School or College, moderate. B. Charmian Tashjian Expressions of Youth. Junior High/High School. Robert Ward Jubilation - An Overture. Full Orchestra. High School and up. Prairie Overture. Full Orchestra. High School and up. A Western Set. Full Orchestra. High School and up. Robert Washburn New England Holiday - Warner Bros.-Belwin Caravelle Overture - Warner Bros.-Belwin Scottish Fantasy - Warner Bros.-Belwin Ceremonial Processional March - Warner Bros.-Belwin Clarkson Centennial Overture - Warner Bros.-Belwin James Yannatos All About Mice (Variations on Hickory, Dickory, Dock). Ages 6-18. Donald Reid Womack Winter Solstice, Adagio and Scherzo for orchestra. Three movements of an as-of-yet unfinished symphony in four movements using Classical structures. The movements can be played separately or together. The Adagio can be performed by a chamber orchestra. Advanced high school/college. String Orchestra Samuel Adler Concertino No.1 for string orchestra. Beginner, in first position. Five American Folk Songs for string orchestra. Beginner, in first position. Lauren Bernofsky Fantasia and Scherzo for late-intermediate cello choir. Self-published. Larghetto for intermediate string orchestra. Self-published. Medieval Scenes for elementary string orchestra. The FJH Music Co., Inc. Regal Procession for elementary string orchestra. The FJH Music Co., Inc. The Cuckoo Clock for elementary string orchestra. The FJH Music Co., Inc. The Red Iguana Rhumba for intermediate string orchestra. Self-published William Copper Raptor Wings for string orchestra. Middle school. Herbert Bielawa Boats for elementary string orchestra. Changes for four string orchestras, beginners, medium and professional Will Gay Bottje Sinfonia (Crickets) - three movements. High school or a select younger group, mostly first position. American Composers Alliance. Dr. Robert Boury Country Caprices for 6th grade on up Folk Symphony for Junior/Senior High School. Wallace De Pue Prelude and Sarabande. Ages 15-17. An Orchestral Passacaglia. Ages 15-17. Daniel Dorff Lamentations for middle school or older. 7 minutes. Presser. Crawford Gates Fantasie for String Orchestra Suite for Strings Karel Husa Four Little Pieces for Strings, 16 minutes. Schirmer. Ages 12-18, Difficulty 3-4. Pastoral for Strings, 7 minutes. Associated Music Publishers. Ages 14-18, Difficulty 4. Richard Lane Passacaglia - Junior or Senior High School. Sonatina for Strings - High School. String Song - Junior or Senior High School. Joshua Missal The Carson Suite - Junior High, Medium (3). Neil Kjos. Celebration Suite - Junior High, Medium (3). Neil Kjos. The Circus - Junior High, Medium (3). Neil Kjos. Kaleidoscope - Junior High, Medium (3). Neil Kjos. Lake Country Dances - Junior High, Medium to Difficult (3-4). Highland/Etting. John Pozdro Rondo Gioioso for high school string orchestra. Steven Rosenhaus Concerto Grosso - High School, Medium to Difficult. Peter Sacco Song for Strings Ira-Paul Schwarz Divertimento for String Orchestra - with optional piano. Edited by Samuel Applebaum. High School (4). Alan Shulman Ripe for Plucking - ASTA/Presser. High School. New Directions for Strings - Presser. B. Charmian Tashjian Colloquies of Birds. Junior High School. Persis Parshall Vehar With Roses - High School. Strolling Dinosaurs - Elementary. Donald Reid Womack Goulash for string orchestra. Grades 6-12, moderately difficult. Old Tricks for a New Dog. Grades 6-12, rhythmically tricky but otherwise not difficult. James Yannatos Bits and Pieces for string orchestra, ages 8-16, moderate. Marilyn J. Ziffrin A Small Suite for string orchestra. 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