HAVERFORD BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ORCHESTRA
Haverford /Bryn Mawr College Orchestra
Thursday November 20
Rehearsal schedule
MARSHALL AUDITORIUM
November 20 is our dress rehearsal and is MANDATORY --
7-9:15pm
7:00 – 7:45 Liszt Les Preludes TUTTI
7:45-8:15 Saint Saens TUTTI
8:15 Break
8: 15 -8:50 Puccini Un Bel di TUTTI
8:50 -9:15 Gershwin Summertime TUTTI
Fall Orchestra Concert
Friday
November 21, 8pm Marshall Auditorium
Warm- up 7:30pm
Dress: Long Black or Dark Suits (with dark or white shirt/ any colored tie)
It will also be presented via live stream at this link: https://hav.to/rz2
Please review the following:
Saint Saens
Work on playing this fast we have been a dotted half mm dotted half = 72
--see if you play closer to mm = 76 -78
with Animato mm = 86-88
--violins review again nine after 1'
--Look in particular at letter C to D --when you start playing 8th notes
Review. F - G!! Intonation
Liszt
----Strings also check over measure 160 through to measure 181
---violin and violas be sure to review those 16th note passages starting with measure 34.
--- violin 1 please review again 47 onward with a metronome it is getting better
--woodwinds look over those solos form Allegretto pastorale
--Winds/brass check intonation from letter M onwards
---Everyone check over letter O/the intonation --in particular the F # major section ninr after letter O
Puccini and Gershwin
Review solos and solis
Those 16ths are coming along in the Gershwin and keep polishing....!!
Enjoy your weekend!
REMEMBER - Any 'mandatory' meetings for a program ----All orchestra students are excused and must be allowed to get the information at an alternate time !
AND for those of you who would have already taken MUSCH 203. May I recommend this wonderful class taught by my wonderful colleague Professor Ingrid Arauco:
See enclosed!
Mus 265, Symphonic Technique and Tradition-- 203 is a prerequisite
SPRING SEMESTER
Anyone who was unable to audition at the beginning of the Fall semester and would like now to audition please contact Professor Jacob: at hjacob@haverford.edu
****Once you have passed an audition you may register for these classes as you would any other--if it puts you on a overload ( 5 or 5.5 credits) please contact your Dean for approval! ****
LINK TO SCORES:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sXppfRf9TN4hwvVaVgg2nlfOPS7I2Ge4?usp=sharing
LINKS TO RECORDINGS:
Saint Saens Danse Macabre
Leopold Stokowski National Philharmonic Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6TPgwy-nRk&pp=ygUZZGFuc2UgbWFjYWJyZSBzYWludCBzYWVuc9IHCQmtCQGHKiGM7w%3D%3D
Franz Liszt Les Preludes Symphonic Poem No. 3
Riccardo Muti Wiener Philharmoniker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV-4ztlXEDA
Un bel di from Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfj3hXiPCSo
LINKS TO PARTS
PDF String Parts Liszt Les Preludes
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1heL5omYs7E8SeCw8T2rYtofJQl9QqJOQ
PDF's. Liszt. Woodwinds
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/196cKoGtJ-LlvqssPHDaFPkOAeRYH4MD_?usp=sharing
PDF's Liszt Brass/Percussion/Harp
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S4k5jDTZaeR85885CTqR8Inu2fqcumiH?usp=sharing
PDF's all parts Saint Saints
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fawpkCnM3U8kLFg1YPtKQipBE8p1ou4K
LINK to Attendance Policy
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13XpSZLLwo0g_mJs1Zegk3pxdv0lSV_0ciOUs64HkxC4/edit?usp=sharing
SPRING SEMESTER
will feature the 2026 Bi-College Student Concerto Competition winner (s)
and Shostakovich Fifth Symphony!
The woodwind section will have opportunity to work with Principal Oboe of the Baltimore Symphony,
Katherine Needleman in a sectional on this work!
SAVE THE DATES!
Annual Ensemble Concert as part of Family & Friends Weekend/Haverford College
Saturday November 1 8pm Marshall Auditorium
Fall Orchestra Concert
Friday November 21, 8pm Marshall Auditorium
Gershwin's " Summertime" from Porgy and Bess
Leontyne Price, RCA Victor Orchestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBHqLQd9-T4
Ella Fitzgerald (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2bigf337aU
Link to synopsis
https://www.metopera.org/discover/synopses/porgy-and-bess/
YOU may register for this as you would any other class (it is P/F but does NOT affect the number of P/F classes you can take--you can take it as many times as you want )--if it puts you on a overload ( 5 or 5.5 credits) please contact your Dean for approval! ****
Also - except for private study- students do not have to be registered in order to participate although it is recommended they do so.
THOSE WHO MAY BE INVOLVED IN CUSTOMS:
The 7pm on Thursdays was established knowing some groups would need to reschedule their standing meetings to suit their groups' needs. Some have found success meeting on Sunday evenings or Fridays -- it all varies. SO PLEASE PLAN ACCORDINGLY SO YOU DO NOT MISS ORCHESTRA !