You are invited to go to any of the best orchestras in the world and conduct a concert with whatever forces you like. What would you program? (bonus: post links).
Hmmm. It looks like this is supposed to be purely orchestral things? One of my life-long dreams is to do the Bach Magnificat... purely orchestrally??? Maybe Eroica? Jupiter? Prague? Linz? Bach's D-Major orchestral suite? Brahms' 1st Piano Concerto Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers? Sorry - I don't know how to do links (except the edible variety).
Hmm... depends on if I wanted to do a themed program or not. I would definitely try to include Durufle's Requiem on the program, probably after the intermission.
Since we're not talking about callbacks or an audition process... We'll have to do my symphony, heretofore only performed by a community orchestra, possibly with the revised version of my Huntress as a curtain-raiser. I'd rather write a new, more mature one for such an event, but at my age who knows?
For the rest, I'd like to help some friends, maybe make a whole show of Catholic musicians. Perhaps Daniel Knaggs' Two Columns at Sea.Mark Nowakowski has some unpremiered orchestra pieces, including several concerti (have to have one of those, right?). I don't think Frank La Rocca's St. Rita oratorio got a second performance, but that's pretty much "the show". I don't know if Kurt Sander has any orchestral music sitting around; he's pretty much focused on Orthodox choral music right now. From the heathen: the Symphony No. 1 by Jeff Harrington, which I don't think has been premiered. Any number of pieces by David Babcock, perhaps this clarinet concerto.
Oh, you meant dead people? Carl Ruggles' Sun Treader. Charles Koechlin's Partita for Chamber Orchesta. Rubbra 10th. Tippett 2nd, Roy Harris 3rd. Stravinsky;s Requiem Canticles.
Oh, you meant repertoire pieces? Mozart 40th or the Clarinet Concerto, Mahler 9, CPE Bach string symphonies, Weber overtures, Berlioz' Nuits d'Ete
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