With my OES tenure now in its final week, I wanted to take a look back over our work together and see if we\u2019ve accomplished anything.<\/p>\n
It seemed a good time for a special edition of the Repertoire Report<\/strong>– in this case, a complete listing of every work I\u2019ve performed during my time there. To do this, my research assistant (who kindly volunteered his time in exchange for me not telling his student loan company where he is now living) combed through all my programs. We\u2019ll also publish the list by program, which might be of some interest as well. \u00a0We\u2019ve included some of the projects we\u2019ve done with the Preparatory Orchestra as well- works with an asterisk have been done by both OES and the Prep orchestra. Works with a (2) have been done twice by OES. I’ve also included some chamber music and recital projects done through OES.<\/p>\n I think it\u2019s a pretty good list (I guess I would, wouldn\u2019t I), and I think it might give some encouragement to another young conductor just getting their first music directorship with a small orchestra of modest resources- there are surely few smaller or with more modest resources than what I found when I first arrived there. No need to be put off by my long tenure, either- I did the most repertoire in the first 4 years when OES was a bigger slice of my work, and I was doing all the concerts (and the orchestra was doing slightly more concerts).<\/p>\n Regrets? Well, not all of it would have been right for us at various times, but I can\u2019t believe we never did any Bartok, Bruckner or Janacek. I would have loved to have done more French repertoire, more Brahms and more Bach. Well, more of everything, really. I\u2019m really cross we never did the First Piano Concerto of Beethoven and the Triple Concerto- I would have loved to have finished his concerti to go with the symphonies. I can\u2019t really believe we never did Leonore 3 or the Mendelssohn Italian Symphony- those both got listed on programs dozens of times and never quite got performed. I\u2019m surprised how much Britten we managed to do. I think \u00a0there\u2019s a good amount and variety of new music- it\u2019s not easy to program new works on a small season with a conservative audience, but we\u2019ve pushed hard, and there are a good batch of pieces that got heard for the first time in Pendeton as a result.<\/p>\n Anyway- here’s the list. A lot of blood sweat and tears went into, and a lot of joy and wisdom came from it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1. J.C. Bach- Cello Concerto in C minor<\/p>\n 2. Bach- Christmas Oratorio<\/p>\n 3- Bach- Cello Suites 2-5<\/p>\n 4. Bach- Double Concerto in D minor for Two Violins<\/p>\n 5. Bamert- Circus Parade<\/p>\n 6. Barber- Adagio for Strings<\/p>\n 7. Barber- Cello Concerto<\/p>\n 8. Barber- Violin Concerto<\/p>\n 9. Beethoven- Coriolan Overture<\/p>\n 10. Beethoven- Egmont Overture *<\/p>\n 11. Beethoven- Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat<\/p>\n 12. Beethoven- Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor<\/p>\n 13. Beethoven- Piano Concerto No. 4<\/p>\n 14. Beethoven- Piano Concerto No. 5 \u201cEmperor\u201d<\/p>\n 15. Beethoven- Violin Concerto in D Major, opus 61<\/p>\n 16. Beethoven- String Quartet in F major, op 18 no. 1 18. Beethoven- Symphony no. 2 in D major<\/p>\n 19. Beethoven- Symphony No. 3 in E flat, \u201cEroica\u201d<\/p>\n 20. Beethoven- Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, opus 60<\/p>\n 21. Beethoven- Symphony No. 5 in C minor *<\/p>\n 22. Beethoven- Symphony no. 6 in F Major “Pastoral”<\/p>\n 23. Beethoven- Symphony No. 7 in A Major<\/p>\n 24. Beethoven- Symphony no. 8<\/p>\n 25. Beethoven- Symphony No. 9<\/p>\n 26. Berlioz- Overture to \u201cBeatrice and Benedict\u201d<\/p>\n 27. Bernstein- Selections from\u00a0West Side Story 8<\/p>\n 28. Bizet- Carmen<\/p>\n 29. Bloch- Suite for Cello and Orchestra<\/p>\n 30. Borodin- Symphony No. 2<\/p>\n 31. Brahms- Academic Festival Overture<\/p>\n 32. Brahms- Double Concerto for Violin and Cello<\/p>\n 33. Brahms- Symphony No. 1<\/p>\n 34. Brahms- Selected Hungarian Dances<\/p>\n 35. Brahms- Variations on a Theme of Haydn<\/p>\n 36. Britten- Matinees Musicales<\/p>\n 37. Britten- Young Person\u2019s Guide to the Orchestra<\/p>\n 38. Bruch Violin Concerto<\/p>\n 39. Bruch- Kol Nidrei<\/p>\n 40. Copland- Appalachian Spring (Version for Full Orchestra)<\/p>\n 41. Copland- Hoe Down<\/p>\n 42. Copland- An Outdoor Overture Copland- Quiet City<\/p>\n 43. Debussy- Prelude to \u201cAfternoon of a Faun\u201d<\/p>\n 44. Debussy- Cello Sonata<\/p>\n 45. Donizetti- Overture to Don Pasquale<\/p>\n 46. Emily Doolittle- \u201cFalling Still\u201d for Violin and Strings (US Premiere)<\/p>\n 47. Doolittle- Green\/Blue (world-premiere)<\/p>\n 48. Doolittle- Airs of Men Long Dead (world-premiere)<\/p>\n 49. Dvorak- Cello Concerto in B minor, opus 104<\/p>\n 50. Dvorak- Husitska Overture<\/p>\n 51. Dvorak- Serenade for Winds<\/p>\n 52. Dvorak- Slavonic Dance No. 1 in C Major<\/p>\n 53. Dvorak Slavonic Dances op 46 and 72<\/p>\n 54. Dvorak- Stabat Mater<\/p>\n 55. Dvorak- Symphony \u00a0No. 6<\/p>\n 56. Dvorak- Symphony no. 9 \u201cFrom the New World\u201d<\/p>\n 57. Elgar- Chanson de Matin, Chanson de Nuit<\/p>\n 58. Elgar- Cello Concerto (2)<\/p>\n 59. Elgar- Violin Concerto<\/p>\n 60. Elgar- Enigma Variations<\/p>\n 61. Espinosa- Movement for Strings (World Premiere)<\/p>\n 62. Faure- Elegy for Cello and Orchestra<\/p>\n 63. Faure- Pelleas and Melisande Suite<\/p>\n 64. Franck- Cello Sonata<\/p>\n 65. Gershwin- An American in Paris<\/p>\n 66. Gershwin- Rhapsody in Blue (version for two pianos)<\/p>\n 67. Glazunov- Violin Concerto<\/p>\n 68. Glinka- Overture to Russlan and Ludmilla *<\/p>\n 69. Glinka- Kamarinskaya<\/p>\n 70. Grieg- Piano Concerto in A Minor<\/p>\n 71. Handel- Harp Concerto, mvt. I<\/p>\n 72. Handel- Messiah<\/p>\n 73. Haydn- Cello Concerto in C major<\/p>\n 74. Haydn- Mass in Time of War<\/p>\n 75. Haydn- Symphony no. 59 in A Major, “Fire Symphony”<\/p>\n
\n17. Beethoven- Symphony No. 1 in C Major *<\/p>\n