When: Saturday, April 26, 2014, 7pm until the last musician stops playing!
Where: Fantasy Studios, Studios A and B, 2600 Tenth St., Berkeley, CA (gated parking lot entrance between on Tenth between Parker and Carleton)
This is a very unique event for us. For full details and descriptions, check out our event website:
www.awesomeorchestra.org/sessions to read the full description and guidelines carefully and sign up on our listserv at
www.awesomeorchestra.org/get-on-the-list.html and email us with any questions.
We'll be reading through anything and everything we've played in the last year, which you can see on our website at
www.awesomeorchestra.com/repertoireWe'll also be reading some new pieces and taking requests from folks. Feel free to bring sets of parts and if we have time and the right instrumentation, we'll find a time to read it! The general schedule (subject to change will be roughly as follows):
7:00-8:00pm - FILM AND VIDEO GAME MUSIC
John Williams STAR WARS SUITE, HARRY POTTER, HOOK, OLYMPIC FANFARE, SCHINDLER'S LIST, Alan Silvestri FOREST GUMP SUITE, BACK TO THE FUTURE, Hans Zimmer PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN, Daft Punk TRON, Hisaichi PRINCESS MONONOKE, Bjork NEW WORLD, Akrillic from PLOK (Super NES video game)
8:00-9:00pm - 19TH-20TH CENTURY LARGE ORCHESTRAL MASTERWORKS
Bernstein CANDIDE, WEST SIDE STORY, Debussy LA MER, Mussorgsky/Ravel - PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION, Stravinsky FIREBIRD, Adams SHORT RIDE IN A FAST MACHINE, Holst THE PLANETS, Dukas SORCERER'S APPRENTICE, Gershwin RHAPSODY IN BLUE, Ginastera ESTANCIA, Berlioz SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE (last movement)
9:00-10:00pm NEW PIECES!
Vamsi Tadepalli - Lord of Chaos
Bruce Coughran - One for Bob
10:00-11:00pm WAR HORSES AND ORCHESTRAL STANDARDS (bring in parts for any sight-readable pieces you have)
Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Verdi, Bizet, Johann Strauss, Mozart, etc.
11:00pm-12:00am LARGE CHAMBER MUSIC
Copland FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN, Wagner SIEGFRIED'S IDYLL, Dvorak SERENADE, Stravinsky - OCTET, HISTOIRE DU SOLDAT, Mozart GRAN PARTITA, Strauss SERENADE, Gounod - PETIT SYMPHONY
12am - ? FREE FOR ALL!
Hard copies of sheet music will be provided, but due to the high volume of pieces being read, we cannot post all of them on Google Drive for early viewing, though most of them are available through
www.imslp.org. Please be in touch with Awesöme Ambassador for your instrument section to talk about part assignments.
PLEASE BRING MUSIC STANDS.
We'll have free beer from Lagunitas and people will be ordering pizzas and other food throughout the night.
There is free parking in the covered lot, or you can enter through the walk-in door on Tenth St. Zipcar has donated vehicle rentals to us and interns will be making trips to and from Ashby BART Station every hour (7pm, 8pm, etc.).
