
CLASSICAL PROGRAMS-SAMPLES BELOW
PROGRAM 1 – 6 musicians - violin, viola, cello, piano, oboe, flute
Dame Ethel Smyth – Piano Trio (1880)
Britten or Mozart – Quartet for oboe and strings
Intermission
Sibelius – String Trio in G Minor
Beethoven – Serenade for string trio in D Major, Op. 8
PROGRAM 2 - 6 musicians – 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, oboe
Gustav Holst – Three Pieces for oboe and strings
Mozart – Quartet for oboe and strings K. 370 (or Britten Phantasy quartet ob/strings)
Florence Price – The Secret Garden
Intermission
Antonin Dvorak - String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 77
PROGRAM 3 – 4 musicians – violin, viola, cello, oboe
17th Century Fantasias by Purcell, Lupo, and Gibbons
Mozart – Quartet for oboe and strings (or Britten Phantasy quartet ob/strings)
Cole Porter – Suite
Intermission
Piazzolla – Oblivion
Dohnanyi – Serenade for string trio in C Major
PROGRAM 4 – 9 musicians – violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn
Rossini – Overture to Italian in Algiers
Martinu – Nonet for strings and winds
Intermission
August Walter – Octet for strings and winds (1863) (or Spohr Nonet)
Gershwin – Preludes for clarinet and strings
Encore: Bolero for nonet
PROGRAM 5 – 9 musicians, 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, oboe
Richard Strauss – Sextet from Capriccio
Handel-Halverson – Passacaglia
Bellini – Concerto for oboe and strings
Intermission
Mendelssohn – Octet for strings Op. 20
Piazzolla - Oblivion