Fantasy Symphonic Concert Season Challenge by Stereophile Magazine

Gentle Reader,

John Marks of Stereophile Magazine challenged the readers to send in their Fantasy Symphonic Concert Season for a competition. The challenge was to NOT use ANY of
BACH, BEETHOVEN, BRAHMS, HANDEL, HAYDN, MAHLER, MENDELSSOHN,
MOZART, SCHUBERT, STRAVINSKY, TCHAIKOVSKY OR WAGNER.

The concerts will be shown on the Stereophile web site in the future. Here's mine:

Prince William Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by Robert Scott MacFarlane

Presents:

A Season of Lesser Known Works

Concert 1

A Night of Leroy Anderson

Leroy Anderson Blue Tango, Bugler's Holiday, The First Day of Spring, Sandpaper Ballet, The Phantom Regiment, Lady in Waiting (from the musical Goldilocks), Saraband, Sleigh Ride, The Girl in Satin, The Typewriter, The Waltzing Cat, Plink, Plank, Plunk!, Pyramid Dance, The Syncopated Clock, Belle of The Ball, Forgotten Dreams, China Doll, Fiddle Faddle, and A Trumpeter's Lullaby.

Concert 2

Claude Debussy Images for Orchestra William Boyce Eight Symphonies: #1 in B Flat Major, #2 in A Major, #3 in C Major, #4 in F Major, #5 in D Major, #6 in F Major, #7 in B Flat, and #8 in D minor. Leos Janacek Operatic Orchestral Suites

Concert 3

Leonard Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Suite from On the Waterfront Lou Harrison Symphony On G Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony Number 5 in D Major Anton Bruckner Symphony Number 9 in D minor

Concert 4

Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings, Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance Frederick Delius Florida Suite Victor Herbert Pan Americana, American Fantasy Jan Sibelius Symphony Number 1 in E minor

Concert 5

Aaron Copland El Salon Mexico, Danzon Cubano, Latin American Sketches, Music for a Great City, Music for the Theater, Piano Concerto Manual De Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain Darius Milhaud Suite Provencale, Saudes Do Brasil Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony Number 5 in D minor

Concert 6

Anton Webern Im Sommerwind, Eleven Orchestral Pieces Henryk Gorecki Symphony Number 3 Erich Wolfgang Korngold Symphony in F Sharp Richard Strauss Sinfonia Domestica

Concert 7

Bela Bartok Concerto for Orchestra Benjamin Britten Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia from Peter Grimes Antonin Dvorak Legends, Symphonic Poems Sergei Rachmaninov Symphony Number 1 in D Minor

Concert 8

Max Bruch Scottish Fantasy, Opus 46, Symphony Number 3 in E Major Paul Hindemith Symphony: Mathis Der Maler Percy Grainger Faerae Island Manuel M. Ponce Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra

Concert 9

Frederick Chopin Piano Concerto Number 1 in E Minor George Gerswin Symphony for Blues, Concerto in F Major Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor Aram Khackaturian Piano Concerto

Concert 10

Georges Bizet Symphony Number 1 in C Charles Ives Symphony Number 2 Carl Nielson Symphony Number 4

Concert 11

Richard Rodgers Waltzes, March of the Siamese Children, The Carousel Waltz, Slaughter in Tenth Avenue, Symphonic Suite from Oklahoma, Symphonic Suite from South Pacific Arnold Schoenberg Transfigured Night Dmitri Kabalevshy Colas Breugnon Suite, Opus 24

Concert 12

Muzio Clementi Four Symphonies #1 in C Major, #2 in D Major, #3 in G Major, and #4 in D Major Virgil Thomson Symphony Number 2, Symphony Number 3 Alexander Glazunov Symphony Number 5 Candelario Huizar Images

Concert 13

Camille Saint-Seans Symphony Number 3 “Organ” Joseph Jongen Symphonic Concertante for Organ & Orchestra Edward Elgar Symphony Number 1 in A Flat Major Opus 55 Manuel M. Ponce Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra

Concert 14

Serge Prokofiev Symphony Number 5 Rossini-Respighi La Boutique Fantasique Jose Pablo Moncayo Huapango Erik Satie Parade, Socrate Anton Rubinstein Symphony Number 5 in C Minor

No pictures this time.

Thanks for reading!

Scott