Thanksgiving Day Playlist

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Great french composers have been trailblazers over centuries, initiating profound evolutions in musical style, sensitivity and brilliance. This playlist features favorite performances of seminal works, many emphasizing the kind of imagination and provocative viewpoints we expect from french artists.

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de Lisle |  “La Marseillaise”
Rameau | Les Indes Galantes
Ravel | Pavane pour une infante defunte
Debussy | “Golliwogg’s Cakewalk”
Messaien | Oiseaux exotiques
Ravel | Boléro
Faure | Requiem “Pie Jesu”
Haydn | Symphony No. 85 in Bb Maj. “La Reine”
Debussy |  La Mer
La Ca Ira

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This playlist features the (mostly) original settings of music used during the New West Symphony’s Battle of the Sections: Orchestra Edition. Thank you all for your involvement in this great live event, and for your support!

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Winners: Team Percussion

Strauss | Also Sprach Zarathustra: Opening
Bach | Concerto for Two Violins in d min.
Vivaldi | Four Seasons: Winter
Bernstein |  Mambo from West Side Story
Tchaikovsky |  1812 (Finale)

Highlights from the playlists of Team Strings, Team Woodwinds and Team Brass

Bizet | Carmen “Habanera”
“Down to the River to Pray”
Khachaturian | Sabre Dance
Saint-Saens |  Danse macabre
Grieg |  Peer Gynt
Mussorgsky/Ravel |  Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
Mozart | Symphony No. 40, 1st mvmt
Rachmaninoff | Prelude Op. 3, No.2 in c# min.
Saint-Saens | Carnival of the Animals “Swan”
Tchaikovsky | Serenade for Strings: 1st mvmt.
Paganini | Caprice No. 24
Ravel | Bolero
Debussy | Claire de Lune
Beethoven | Symphony No. 5, 1st mvmt.
Strauss | Dance of the Seven Veils
Tchaikovsky | Nutcracker “Waltz of the Flowers”
Verdi | Requiem “Dies Irae”
Offenbach | Orpheus in the Underworld “Galop Infernal”
Liszt | Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Beethoven | “Für Elise”
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique “March to the Scaffold”
Baby Shark for Bassoon Quartet!

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This playlist features the (mostly) original settings of music used during the New West Symphony’s Battle of the Sections: Orchestra Edition. Thank you all for your involvement in this great live event, and for your support!

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Winners: Team Percussion

Strauss | Also Sprach Zarathustra: Opening
Bach | Concerto for Two Violins in d min.
Vivaldi | Four Seasons: Winter
Bernstein |  Mambo from West Side Story
Tchaikovsky |  1812 (Finale)

Highlights from the playlists of Team Strings, Team Woodwinds and Team Brass

Bizet | Carmen “Habanera”
“Down to the River to Pray”
Khachaturian | Sabre Dance
Saint-Saens |  Danse macabre
Grieg |  Peer Gynt
Mussorgsky/Ravel |  Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
Mozart | Symphony No. 40, 1st mvmt
Rachmaninoff | Prelude Op. 3, No.2 in c# min.
Saint-Saens | Carnival of the Animals “Swan”
Tchaikovsky | Serenade for Strings: 1st mvmt.
Paganini | Caprice No. 24
Ravel | Bolero
Debussy | Claire de Lune
Beethoven | Symphony No. 5, 1st mvmt.
Strauss | Dance of the Seven Veils
Tchaikovsky | Nutcracker “Waltz of the Flowers”
Verdi | Requiem “Dies Irae”
Offenbach | Orpheus in the Underworld “Galop Infernal”
Liszt | Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Beethoven | “Für Elise”
Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique “March to the Scaffold”
Baby Shark for Bassoon Quartet!

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Music, especially sung, has been at the core of Minnesotan society. What has always been particularly moving to me is how Minnesotans participate in its cultural experience, perhaps even more so when it’s cold! This playlist is dedicated to the generations of Minnesotans who have raised their voices for themselves and for their neighbors to strive for unity and equality.

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1. Kim André Arnesen: “Even When He Is Silent”
2. Andrew’s Sisters: “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”
3. Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone”
4. Biebl: “Ave Maria”
5. “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
6. Husker Du: “It’s Not Funny Anymore”
7. The Replacements: “Unsatisfied”
8. Reincarnations: III. The Coolin
9. Soul Asylum: “Runaway Train”
10. Bobby Vee: “Take Good Care of my Baby”
11. Lizzo: “Truth Hurts”
12. VocalEssence: “I Will Be Your Standing Stone”
13. The Sounds of Blackness: “Fly Again”
14. VocalEssence: “The Good Fight”
15. Theater Latte da: “Silent Night”
16. Steve Heitzeg: “American Nomad”
17. Prince: “Purple Rain”

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Music forms an unbreakable bond with our sense of community and pride in our nations, the people and their histories. This international Jukebox playlist features music that goes straight to our core when we hear it. I love that every culture has its unique expressions of remembrance and dedication.

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1. America the Beautiful
2. Verdi: Va Pensiero
3. Beethoven: Symphony 9, 4th movement (finale)
4. Fields of Athenry
5. When Irish Eyes are Smiling
6. Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
7. Chopin: Mazurka op. 33, No. 4
8. Moscow Nights
9. Kalinka
10. Waltzing Matilda
11. I Still Call Australia Home
12. Pokarekare Ana
13. Welcome Home
14. Shosholoza
15. The Last Post
16. La Marseillaise
17. Le chant des partisans
18. Non, Je ne regrette rien
19. Sibelius: Finlandia
20. Copland: Hoe-Down
21. Haka (traditional)

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The dynamic duo of American opera and symphonic music, John Corigliano and Mark Adamo, host an extraordinary Jukebox Playlist. Michael is grateful for their insight, charm, and fascination with all genres of music.

1. Janacek: Sinfonietta (fanfare)
2. Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea “Pur ti miro, Pur ti godo”
3. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in c-sharp minor, Op. 131 (2nd movement)
4. Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors, “Don’t cry mother dear”
5. Sondheim: A Little Night Music, Night Waltz
6. Mark Adamo: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene – highlights
7. Lin-Manuel Miranda: Hamilton “It’s Quiet Uptown”
8. Cab Calloway: “The Hi-De-Ho Man”
9. Marion Williams “Packin’ Up”
10. John Bucchino: “Grateful”
11. John Corigliano: Symphony No. 1

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LA based composer and community music champion, Reena Esmail guides this Jukebox Playlist.

1. Barber: Knoxville, Summer 1915
2. Scriabin: 24 Preludes Op. 11, No. 2
3. Horace Silver: The Cape Verdean Blues
4. Laxmi Shankar: mati kahey kumbhar
5. Reena Esmail: Saans
6. Smetana: Vltava (Moldau)
7. Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
8. Mendelssohn: Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello No. 2 in c minor

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This Mother’s Day playlist features heartfelt contributions from musician mothers who have made a huge difference in Michael’s life, to whom he is eternally grateful. We wish these wonderful women and all mother’s a very Happy Mother’s Day!

1. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
2. Saint-Saens: Ascanio: Adagio & Variations
3. Brahms: German Requiem “Denn alles Fleisch”
4. Jon Bellion: Mah’s Joint
5. Sibelius: Symphony No. 2, mvmt. 4
6. Debussy: Clair de Lune
7. Nichole Nordeman: Slow Down

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Composers and songwriters throughout time have leaned heavily on the inspiration of others and created iconic reimagined versions.

1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, 1st movement
2. Walter Murphy: A Fifth of Beethoven
3. J.S. Bach: Prelude in C Major, Well Tempered Clavier, BWV 846
4. Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria
5. Hound Dog: Big Mama Thornton
6. Hound Dog: Elvis Presley
7. Khachaturian: Violin Concerto, 3rd Movement
8. Khachaturian: Flute Concerto, 3rd Movement
9. Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Maj. Intermezzo
10. Brahms/Schoenberg: Piano Quartet in G Maj. Intermezzo
11. Red, Red Wine: Neil Diamond
12. Red, Red, Wine: UB40
13. J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in d minor
14. J.S. Bach/Stokowski: Toccato and Fugue in d minor

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