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Music Highlights

Click the title to play one of Whitman's award-winning musical selections.

CDs are available for these and many more selections from the school years below and for several years before. Please contact Ms. Alvey or Mr. LoRusso if you are interested in purchasing a CD.

Note: The downloads below are in ACC (MP4; extension .m4a) format. Free MP4 readers are available online, such as iTunes. Depending on the internet connection speed, downloading the selection may take a few minutes.

 

Highlights from 2008-2009

Ensemble Title Composer
Wind Ensemble Lincolnshire Posy, Mvt. II - Horkstow Grange (The Miser and His Man: A Local Tragedy) Percy Grainger
Wind Ensemble Lincolnshire Posy, Mvt. VI - The Lost Lady Found (Dance Song) Percy Grainger
Wind Ensemble Vesuvius Frank Ticheli
String Orchestra St. Paul's Suite for String Orchestra, Mvt. 3 - Intermezzo Gustav Holst
String Orchestra St. Paul's Suite for String Orchestra, Mvt. 4 - Finale Gustav Holst
Symphonic Orchestra Academic Festival Overture, op. 80 Johannes Brahms
Jazz Ensemble Take the A Train Duke Ellington, arr. Baylock
Jazz Ensemble Blue Skies Berlin, arr. Kamuf

 

Highlights from 2007-2008

Ensemble
Title
Composer
Symphonic Orchestra Night on Bald Mountain Modest Mussorgsky
Symphonic Orchestra Slavonic Dance No. 8 Antonin Dvorak
Symphonic Band When the Stars Began to Fall

Spiritual, arr. Fred Allen

Symphonic Band Incantation and Dance John Barnes Chance
Jazz Ensemble Bernie's Tune

arr. Mike Kamuf

Jazz Ensemble Blue Serge Duke Ellington
Jazz Ensemble Have you Met Miss Jones arr. Alan Baylock

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