Fall 2025
Repertoire
Christmas Concerto (Soloists Benson Wu and Jacob Secreto)
A. Corelli
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Carrie Lane Gruselle
Sleigh Ride
Leroy Anderson. Arr. Bud Caputo
Feliz Navidad
Jose Feliciano. Arr. Kenneth Abeling
Brazilian Sleigh Bells
Percy Faith. Arr. Lloyd Conley
A Christmas Festival
Leroy Anderson. Arr. Michael Story
Spring 2025
Repertoire
Bach Double in D Minor
Johann Bach
La La Land (Soloist Elizabeth Brown)
Justin Hurwitz
Merry-Go-Round of Life (Soloist Ashley Greening)
Joe Hisaishi
Sleeping Beauty Waltz
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
How To Train Your Dragon
Michael John Mollo & John James Powell
Danse Bacchanale (Soloist Yin Wah Yip)
Camille Saint-Saëns
Romanze (Soloist Elizabeth Bojdak)
Camille Saint-Saëns
High School Musical
Matthew Gerrard, Robbie Nevil, & Jamie Houston
Symphonie No. 2 with Main Line Symphony
Jean Sibelius
Fall 2024
Repertoire
Themes from Vivaldi's "Gloria"
Antonio Vivaldi. Arranged by Harry Alshin
American Landscape
Soon Hee Newbold
Selections from The Four Seasons: Autumn, Movements 1 & 5
Antonio Vivaldi. Arranged by Lynne Latham
Arabian Dreams
Soon Hee Newbold
Swan Lake Theme
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Reflection
Matthew Wilder and David Zippel. Arranged by Chiara DL
Somewhere In My Memory
John Williams and Leslie Bricusse. Arranged by Larry Moore
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting...)
Mel Torme and Robert Wells. Arranged by Benton Wedge
Music From Wicked (Excerpts from "No One Mourns The Wicked", "Dancing Through Life", "Defying Gravity", and "For Good")
Stephen Schwartz. Arranged by Ted Ricketts
Spring 2024
Repertoire
Lion City
Soon Hee Newbold
My Heart Will Go On
Celine Dion
Colors of the Wind (from Walt Disney's "Pocahontas")
Alan Menken
El Tango de Roxanne (from "Moulin Rouge") (Soloists Lauren Curley, YinWah Yip)
Arranged by Lauren Curley
Waltze II
Dmitri Shostakovich
Romanze, Concerto No. 1 (Soloist Andrew Berde)
Chopin
Pennywhistle Jig
Harry Mancini, Arranged by John Moss
Wildest Dreams
Taylor Swift
John Williams Trilogy (Excerpts from "Star Wars", "Jurrasic Park", and "Raiders of the Lost Ark") (Soloist Vicky Hoy)
John Williams, Arranged by Calvin Custer
Fall 2023
Repertoire
New World Symphony (Symphony No. 9, Mvt. IV)
Antonio Dvorak. Arranged by Deborah Baker Monday
Winter 1st Movement (Soloists Vicky Hoy and Lauren Curley)
Antonio Vivaldi
Winter 2nd Movement (Soloist Catalina de Alba)
Antonio Vivaldi
"Trepak" - Russian Dance
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Arranged by Edward Zhou
I See The Light (from Walt Disney's "Tangled")
Words & Music by Glenn slater, Alan Menken. Arranged by David Hornberger
Greensleeves
Sixteenth Century Traditional English Folksong. Arranged by Bruce Healey
We Wish you a Merry Christmas
Traditional English Folksong. Arranged by Bruce Healey
Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24
Music by Paul O'Neil and Robert Kinkel. Arranged by Bob Phillips
Fall 2022
Repertoire
Brazilian Sleigh Bells
Percy Faith
Somewhere In My Memory
John Williams
Dance of the Sugar Plums
Pyotr Ilyrich Tchaikovsky
Waltz of the Flowers
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Troika
Sergei Prokofiev
Pat-A-Pan
Bernard de la Monnoye
Ding Dong Merrily on High
Thoinot Arbeau and Charles Wood
Spring 2022
Repertoire
Ashokan Farewell
Jay Ungar
Tonight
Leonard Bernstein
La La Land Soundtrack (Excerpts from "Mia and Sebastian's Theme", "Another Day of Sun", "The Fools Who Dream", and "City of Stars")
Justin Hurwitz. Arranged by Robert Longfield
The Rains of Castomere
Ramin Djawadi
Slumdog Millionaire
A. R. Rahman. Arranged by Larry Moore
Fall 2021
Repertoire
La Paloma (Soloist Marcus Cyr)
Sebastián Iradier
Greensleeves (Soloists Marcus Cyr and Paige Thaler)
Sixteenth Century Traditional English Folksong. Arranged by Bruce Healey
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane
Carol of the Bells
Mykola Leontovych
Iditarod
Soon Hee Newbold
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