Tune of the Week
Semester 1
Semester 4
1. J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations
2. Robert Schumann: Symphony #3
3. Rossini: William Tell Overture
4. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
5. Barber: Adagio for Strings
6. Brahms: Symphony #1
7. Mozart: Symphony #40
8. Charlie Parker: Best of the Complete Dial &
Savoy Studio Recordings (entire disc)
9. Ravel: Bolero
10. Holst: Suite #1 in E flat (for Band)
11. Richard Strauss: Don Juan
12. Copland: Quiet City
13. The Beatles: Abbey Road (entire disc)
14. Anton Webern: Passacaglia for Orchestra
15. Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
1. Faure: Requiem
2. Vivaldi: Four Seasons
3. Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage (entire disc)
4. Ferdinand David: Concertino in E flat for
Trombone & Orchestra
5. Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
6. R. Schumann: Konzertstucke for 4 Horns
and Orchestra
7. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #2
8. Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite
9. Chopin: Piano Concerto #2
10. R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
11. Verdi: Requiem
12. Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
(entire disc)
13. Beethoven: Symphony #9
14. Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy (for Band)
15. Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess
Semester 2
1. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (entire disc)
2. Hindemith: Mathis der Mahler
3. Handel: Water Music
4. Dvorak: Symphony #8
5. Beethoven: Symphony #3
6. Ives: Three Places In New England
7. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in e minor
8. Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture
9. Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
10. Bach: Orchestral Suite #3
11. Elgar: Enigma Variations
12. Bruckner: Symphony #7
13. Schubert: Die Schoene Mullerin
14. Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat
15. Prokofiev: Symphony #5
Semester 3
1. Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
2. Howard Hanson: Symphony #2 “Romantic”
3. Mozart: Requiem
4. Wagner: Prelude to Die Meistersinger
5. John Coltrane: Giant Steps (entire disc)
6. Holst: “Hammersmith” Prelude
7. Berg: Violin Concerto
8. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto #2
9. John Adams: Harmonielehre
10. Mahler: Symphony #7
11. Shostakovich: Symphony #5
12. Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture
13. Stravinsky: L’Histoire du Soldat
(The Soldier’s Tale)
14. Eric Clapton: Slowhand (entire disc)
15. Vaughan Williams: Folk Song Suite
(for band)
Semester 5
1. Louis Armstrong: Hot Fives & Sevens
(pick one disc of the four)
2. Mahler: Symphony #3
3. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
4. Stravinsky: Symphony in C
5. Brahms: A German Requiem
6. Mahavishnu Orchestra: Birds of Fire
(entire disc)
7. J. S. Bach: Cello Suites #1, #3
8. Barber: Violin Concerto
9. Haydn: Symphony #104
10. Bruckner: Symphony #4
11. Bernstein: Three Dance Episodes from
“On The Town” & Symphonic Dances
from “West Side Story”
12. Wagner: Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin
13. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
14. Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
15. Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue
Semester 6
1. Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra
2. David Diamond: Symphony #4
3. Handel: Messiah
4. Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Bass Tuba
5. Brahms: Trio for Horn, Violin & Piano
6. Saint-Saens: Symphony #3
7. Ruben Blades: Mundo (entire disc)
8. Schubert: Symphony #9 (Great C Major)
9. Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass
10. Copland: Appalachian Spring
11. Franck: Symphony in d minor
Semester 6 (cont.)
12. Holst: The Planets
13. Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 “Emperor”
14. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
15. Jethro Tull: Aqualung (entire disc)
Semester 7
1. Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
2. Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby (entire disc)
3. Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis
4. S. Revueltas: Sensemaya
5. Monteverdi: Vespers
6. Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures At An Exhibition
7. Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin
8. Respighi: Pines of Rome
9. Mendelssohn: Elijah
10. Wagner: Siegfried’s Funeral Music
11. Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5
12. J. J. Johnson: The Eminent J. J. Johnson,
Vol. 2 (entire disc)
13. Mozart: Don Giovanni
14. Walter Piston: Symphony #6
15. Carl Nielsen: Symphony #4
“Inextinguishable”
Semester 8
1. Bach: B Minor Mass
2. Copland: Symphony #3
3. Sibelius: Finlandia
4. Dvorak: Symphony #9
5. G. Gabrieli: Canzonas & Sonatas
6. Brahms: Symphony #4
7. Stravinsky: Petroushka
8. Duke Ellington: Ellington at Newport 1956
(entire disc)
9. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture/Fantasy Overture
“Romeo & Juliet”
10. R. Strauss: Til Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
11. Haydn: Creation
12. Vaughan Williams: Symphony #5
13. Mahler: Symphony #2
14. Keith Jarrett: Tokyo ’96 (entire disc)
15. Rachmaninov: Symphony #2