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Music

An exploration of classical music as a living tradition. Top orchestral players from across the United States meet once-a-year in New York as the All-Star Orchestra to record masterpieces and new works with Music Director Gerard Schwarz. Come behind the scenes, meet the musicians, attend an open rehearsal, gain a conductor's perspective, and have a first-person encounter with the music.

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Unit 1: Music basics

Notes and rhythm

Reading music

Unit 2: Band instrument lessons

Woodwinds

Brass

Percussion

Auditioning

Unit 3: Masterpieces old and new

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish"

Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 2 – 1st Movement

Igor Stravinsky: Suite from The Firebird

Maurice Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloe

Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

Introduction to Philip Glass' "Harmonium Mountain"

Bernard Rands: Adieu

Augusta Read Thomas: Of Paradise and Light

Bright Sheng: "Black Swan", the composer and his work

Richard Danielpour: Piano Concerto No. 4, Movement III

David Stock: Blast!

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Avanti!

Joseph Schwantner: The Poet's Hour

Unit 4: Instruments of the orchestra

Strings

Woodwinds

Brass

Percussion

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