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Large Group Ensembles

• Orchestra
• Concert Band
• Symphonic Band

Chamber Music Ensembles

• Flute Choir
• Chamber Music Ensembles

Jazz Groups

• Jazz Ensemble
• Select Jazz Combo
• Sisters in Jazz Combo
• Jazz Warriors Combo
• K.A.M.E.O. Fusion Quintet

More Music Classes

• Keyboard/Guitar
• Songwriting
• Music Theory
• Jazz Improvisation Class
• Pit Orchestra

Annual Music Festivals:

Eastern Senior District Festival

Eastern Junior District Festival

Allstate Music Festival

MICCA Large Group Festival

Berklee High School Jazz Festival

Additional Information:

2007-08 Instrumental Handbook

Excused Absence Request

L-S Friends of Music

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L-S Orchestra

	Link to "Ambush" Concert Photos Halloween 2008

The L-S String Orchestra performs literature designed to challenge students to expand their individual technique, group expression skills, and knowledge of music theory and history.

Membership in the L-S Orchestra is devoted to string players. In addition wind and percussion players from the Concert and Symphonic Bands combine with the strings to feature a full orchestra experience for concerts. The group presents several concerts each year as well as participates in the MICCA Music Festival in the Spring.

Orchestra members may audition for the Eastern Junior and Senior District Orchestras and subsequently the All State Orchestra.

Literature for 2011-12

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Clocks...Coldplay

When You Believe...Stephen Schwartz from the Movie Prince of Egypt

Kashmir...Led Zeppelin

Sleighride...Leroy Anderson

Badinerie... J.S. Bach

La Donna E Mobile... G. Verdi

Minuet from Symphony No. 88... F.J. Haydn

Waltz No. 2 from Suite for Variety Orchestra.. Dmitri Shostakovich

What Dreams May Come... Erik Morales

Literature for 2010-11

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The Ukraine...Barrage

The Show Goes On....Barrage

St. Paul Suite.... Movement I..."Jig" ...Vivace.....Gustav Holst

Amadeus (Movement I Symphony 25).....Mozart

Ice Sculptures...Brian Balmages

Pictures at an Exhibition....Modest Mussorgsky

Peer Gynt - In the Hall of the Mountain King....Edvard Grieg

Peer Gynt - Deep in the Coniferous Forest....Edvard Grieg

Canzona Bergamasca.....Samuel Scheidt

Tales of Hoffman...Barcarolle....Jacques Offenbach

Kalimba....Bob Lipton

The Evil Eye and the Hideous Heart.....Alan Lee Silva

Gymnopedie No. 1.....Eric Satie

Literature for 2009-10

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Music from Gladiator..... Hans Zimmer

Jupiter (from the Planets) ..... Gustav Holst

In the Steppes of Central Asia..... A. Borodin

To Tame the Raging Rapids .... Brian Balmages

March from Suite #1 ..... Gustav Holst

Marriage of Figaro..... W.A. Mozart

Agincourt ..... Doug Spata

English Folk Song Suite ..... Ralph Vaughn--Williams

Overture to Rienzi .... Wagner

Nina ..... Giovanni Battesta Pergolesi

Literature 2008-09

Phantom Tangos ..... Brian Balmages

Equuleus ..... Soon Hee Newbold

Bagatelle Op.47 No. 5 ..... Antonin Dvorak

Largo ..... Antonin Dvorak

Toccata ..... Gioramo Frescobaldi

Romanian Folk Dances ..... Bela Bartok

Mock Morris ..... Percy Grainger

Galop (from Petite Suite) ..... Georges Bizet

The Incredibles ...... Michael Giacchino / arr. John Moss

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix .... Nicholas Hooper/arr. Lopez

Literature 2007-08

Allegro for Strings . . . . .G.F. Handel

Czar’s Evening Waltz. . . Obukhov, Shishkin, Traditional arr. Elena Roussanova Lucas
The Gate, The Night is Bright, Dark Eyes

Scheherazade . . . . . . N. Rimsky-Korsakov

Simple Symphony . . . . Benjamin Britten

Gigue Fugue . . . . J.S. Bach

Lord of the Rings. . . . Howard Shore (Combined Orchestra and Band)

Literature 2006-07

Overture from “The Barber of Seville”. . . . G. Rossini

Selections from “Carmen”. . . . G. Bizet
I. Toreador Song II. Habanera III. Procession of the Toreadors

Bacchanale from “Samson and Delilah” . . . . C. Saint-Saens

America from West Side Story . . . . L. Bernstein

Baltic Dance . . . . Kurt Moiser

Dry Your Tears, Afrika . . . . John Williams
From the movie Amistad (Combined Orchestra Band and Choir)

Selections from Phantom of the Opera . . . . A.L. Webber (Combined Orchestra and Band)

Palladio . . . . Karl Jenkins

Stairway to Heaven . . . . J. Page, R. Plant

Concerto for Viola and Orchestra . .Featuring Maya Bloom '07 . . Telemann

London Symphony . . . . Haydn

Literature 2005-06

Overture to Rienzi . . . . Wagner

Concertino for String Orchestra . . . . Samuel Alder

From Holberg’s Time . . . . Suite for String Orchestra . . . . Edvard Grieg

Hoe Down from Rodeo . . . . Aaron Copland

English Folk Song Suite . . . . R. Vaughan-Williams

Divertimento No. 14 K.270 . . . . W.A. Mozart
II Andantino IV Presto

Blues for Oaktown . . . . Darrel Anger

Pirates of the Caribbean. . . . Klaus Badelt (Combined Orchestra and Band)
Fog Bound, The Medallion Calls, To The Pirates
Cave, The Black Pearl, One Last Shot, He’s A Pirate

Literature 2004-05

Mock Morris . . . . Percy Grainger

St. Paul’s Suite. . . . Gustav Holst

Music from Gladiator . . . .Hans Zimmer (Combined Orchestra and Band)

Sakura . . . .for Solo Cello and Orchestra . . . . M.L. Daniels Soloist John Letizi

Capriccio Espagnol . . . . Rimsky-Korsakov

The Red Pony. . . . (Excerpts from the Film Suite) . . . . Aaron Copland

Brook Green Suite . . . . Gustav Holst

Pizzicato Polka . . . . Johann Strauss Jr. and Josef Strauss

Overture to Nabucco . . . . Guiseppe Verdi

Dry Your Tears, Afrika . . . . John Williams
From the movie Amistad (Combined Orchestra Band and Choir)

It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. ~Victor de LaPrade