For anyone in an orchestra/band

[40s]

What are some of the songs you are playing this year?

I love listening to this kind of music and I would love to listen to what kind of songs you guys were playing.

Here are some of the songs I played my last year in high school. (our winter concert..)
(I play Violin and Clarinet so I was in Philharmonic Orchestra and Woodwind Ensamble, I'll be posting all of them)

Orchestra:
Hallelujah Chorus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J7-DJIA1FY

A Christmas Festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YMHSqC63is

Marche, Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy and Trepak
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1j5IxOPXdY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cySaSSsD0Ow&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ISRMSIyX8

Band:

Pilatus Mountain of Dragons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJSib313w1Y

Summon the Heros
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlTw2C_FEzE

Flashing Winds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXSIu6IxxCE

An American Elegy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIIKdBYfmlo

[Star Chase]

My orchestra also played Marche, Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy and Trepak last year for our winter concert too! I loved the songs, but a few sections in Marche were a bit of a doozy for us flutes. We also played a song this year called New World Symphony and that sounded really cool.

I think my all time band piece I have performed was October by Eric Whitacre. That piece is very beautiful. Actually anything by Eric Whitacre is pretty fun to play and listen too. I also love performing Sousa marches, most recently I had the opportunity to perform Saber and Spurs by him. But I should probably stop here because I could go on forever on pieces I love playing.

I am listening to some of the band pieces you posted and I can say that I am really liking Pilatus Mountain of Dragons. Actually my band played a song called Fate of the Gods by Steven Reineke, so since you like Pliatus Mountain of Dragons you may like that song too.

[40s]

Star Chase

My orchestra also played Marche, Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy and Trepak last year for our winter concert too! I loved the songs, but a few sections in Marche were a bit of a doozy for us flutes. We also played a song this year called New World Symphony and that sounded really cool.

I think my all time band piece I have performed was October by Eric Whitacre. That piece is very beautiful. Actually anything by Eric Whitacre is pretty fun to play and listen too. I also love performing Sousa marches, most recently I had the opportunity to perform Saber and Spurs by him. But I should probably stop here because I could go on forever on pieces I love playing.

I am listening to some of the band pieces you posted and I can say that I am really liking Pilatus Mountain of Dragons. Actually my band played a song called Fate of the Gods by Steven Reineke, so since you like Pliatus Mountain of Dragons you may like that song too.

I played October too!! My junior year of high school we did.
I remember it being really hard for our band to get at first, but once we got it, it sounded really good. Not my absolute favorite though, but I can totally see why it could be someone elses.

[A Beautiful Farewell]

40s

A Christmas Festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YMHSqC63is

An American Elegy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIIKdBYfmlo

We played Festival last year in my Wind Ensemble, and we're playing Elegy in my (basically) chamber band.
But we had a BIG local church choir sing the songs with us, it was amazing. <3

We're starting back up in Wind Ensemble in my school on Monday, but at my "chamber" band:

An American Elegy
(see previous link)

Russian Christmas Music (A shortened version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe4TK8tXb2k

English Folk Song Suite
Movement 1: March "Seventeen Come Sunday"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXkf0xB7n5Y

Movement 2: Intermezzo "My Bonny Boy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yao_Q6iVp58&feature=related

Movement 3: March "Folk Songs from Somerset"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXm0gOaWypk&feature=related

Greensleeves
(not gonna bother with a link)

Chimes of Liberty
http://ysubands.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/Chimes_of_Liberty.26493110.mp3

[Marimbist]

We did Undertow by John Mackey.

And in our marching band show we did Vina's Lullaby by Cuong Vu. It was pretty neat-o.

In my independent percussion group (OCI), we're doing stuff based off of Voices and Haze by Hiromi Uehara (separate songs).

[Clarinet-Aaron]

The Lakeland Concert Band is doing a Christmas Festival, Sleigh Ride, and March of the Wooden Soldiers (I may have gotten that name wrong). They're all tons of fun, and offer challenges to every section.

[Curtis XD]

Right now, in the Orchestra I'm in. Were playing Serenade For Strings In C Major By Petr Tchaikovsky. (I play the Viola)

It is quiet a challenge right now since we just got the piece, but it is fun to play

[Allen Neah Walker]

I play viola and string bass.
The songs that the Orch. [varsity] are:
- Christmas at the Movies [great for band and orchestra]
- The Nutcracker [Original Version](PS: It's hard but you will have fun with the band)
- And Holy Night. [with band too]

[marshmallowXpie]

I play the violin in my school's top orchestra ensemble.

We worked on Mvmt 2, 3, 4 of Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings.

And for the Christmas concert we did with choir, we performed the Hallelujah Chorus, Messiah Overture, Gloria, and Laudamus Te. :3

[Aceics]

In my orchestra we are doing:
Capriccio Espagnol by Rimsky-korsakov
Carmen Suite by Georges Bizet
Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony
Concerto Grosso 10 by Handel
And, Dvorak American Quartet
Such great pieces to play and be a part of.