Advanced Symphonic Orchestra/AME 2015-2016

The Advanced Symphonic Orchestra is a combination of our school's most advanced students and select Juniors and Seniors that have volunteered to be a part of the Advanced Music Ensemble.

**with the exception of the Large Group Festival contest and Pops Concert. For these 2 performances, the AME will be a part of the 6th & 7th Hour "Symphonic" Orchestra.**

The Advanced Music Ensemble is a weighted class for Juniors and Seniors that is designed to challenge the student to play higher level music. Requirements of the class include auditioning for all major ensembles (Metro 8 District and All-State Orchestras), performing a Solo for the district Solo/Ensemble festival in March, performing a jury piece for judges (band, choir, and orchestra teachers) each semester, and composing a 5-7 page paper in the first semester with a follow up in-class presentation in the second semester.

Lessons are REQUIRED for enrollment in the Advanced Music Ensemble (AME), as the demands of Metro 8 and All-State auditions require extra out-of-classroom assistance.

Our repertoire for the 2015-16 school year:

FALL OF ATLANTIS - Mieloch <----- CHECK IT OUT - MR. M ADDED 1ST & 2ND VIOLIN TUTORIALS FOR THE HARD PARTS. IT GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF HOW IT GOES!

BOLZONI - Minuetto (arranged by Johannes Dietrich - Mr. M's undergraduate violin/conducting/orchestra/music history teacher!!)

STYRE'S RALLY - Safford

RICHARD MEYER - Pagodas

FIRE DANCE - Soon Hee Newbold

SYMPHONY NO. 8 - Dvorak, arr. Dackow

LEROY ANDERSON - Suite of Carols

MENDELSSOHN - Sinfonia #3 in e minor

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA - Wizards in Winter

also, this: Wizards in Winter house decoration sync!

ERIC WHITACRE - October

October (vocal) October (band)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS - English Folk Song Suite

BRAHMS - Academic Festival Overture

BASSES LOADED - Carrie Lane Gruselle

PREVIOUS REPERTOIRE INCLUDES:

SPRING CONCERT

Finlandia - Sibelius

Irish Tune from County Derry - Grainger

Symphony No. 25, I Allegro - Mozart

Atlantis?

Maharaja?

Kyrie?

Adagio For Strings, Op. 11 - Samuel Barber

St. Paul's Suite, movement 1 AND movement 4 - Gustav Holst

Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson

Maharaja - Doug Spata

**SEE ALSO: THE SYMPHONIC PAGE FOR SAFE HALLOWEEN MUSIC**

Symphony 25, movement 1 - Mozart

Marche Slav - Tchaikovsky

+Beginning in the 2014-2015 school year, the AME will meet during the 7th hour class period. The 7th hour class will be made up of the AME section as well as advanced underclassmen and/or upperclassmen who are not enrolled in AME. Auditions will be necessary for non-AME students to be accepted into the 7th hour class. The literature played during this class period will be of extremely elevated high school and professional nature.+