Great Woods Symphony Orchestra at Wheaton College

Performance Excerpts

 The Great Woods Symphony is committed to the values of community music-making. It is comprised of Wheaton students (undergraduates pursuing a B.A. in music and other disciplines; the college does not offer a performance major); 4 faculty section leaders in the strings; and members of the general public ranging in age from 14 to 80.

Auditions are used for placement purposes, but no one is turned away.  The orchestra rehearses once a week for two hours, and presents one concert per semester.

The links below point toward specific timings in each concert. Please listen to approximately the amount of time indicated.

Josh Rodriguez: Vamos (world premiere), Excerpt  (2:00)

Mozart Symphony no. 27, mvt. 1 (2:00)

Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet (Mvt. II), Richard Stolztman, soloist (2:00)

Coleridge-Taylor: Noveletten (Excerpt) (2:00)

Margaret Bonds: Montgomery Variations (Massachusetts premiere) -Finale  (3:00)

William Grant Still: Danzas da Panama (Mvt 4) (2:00)

Bill Douglas: Marimba Concerto, Mika Stoltzman, soloist (1:00)

Beethoven: Coriolan (3:00)