Classical Countdown with Big Budah
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Voting Results
Students in the Utah Symphony Youth Guild and in area youth orchestras were invited to vote on a list of pieces prepared by Utah Symphony education and artistic staff. Youth orchestra directors and high school music teachers were also consulted.
Our general criteria for this list was not necessarily what are the greatest pieces in the orchestral repertoire, but which of those pieces are most known and loved by students ages 12-18. For logistical reasons, pieces with a soloist or with chorus were excluded, as were pieces that would need to be rented or required hiring extra musicians.
The list here is in order of the voting, with the most popular piece being Debussy’s Clair de Lune, which is featured in the popular Twilight movies.
Claude Debussy “Claire de Lune” from Suite Bergamasque
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the Bumblebee
Edvard Grieg “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky “1812” Ouverture Solonnelle in E-flat Major, op.49
John Williams Raiders March
Antonín Dvorák Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, op. 95 From the New World - IV. Allegro con fuoco
Johann Pachelbel Kanon in D
Leonard Bernstein Overture from West Side Story
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov “Finale” from Scheherazade in E Major, op. 35
Paul Dukas Sorcerer’s Apprentice in F Minor
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, op. 67 - I. Allegro con brio
Aaron Copland “Hoedown” from Rodeo
Gioachino Rossini Overture to Guillaume Tell in E Major, “William Tell”
Modest Mussorgsky “Great Gate of Kiev” from Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky Night on Bald Mountain in D Minor
Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves in G Minor
Georges Bizet “Les Toréadors” from Carmen, Suite No.1
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, op. 67 - IV. Allegro
Felix Mendelssohn “Wedding March” from Midsummer Night’s Dream, op. 61
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, op.36 - IV. Finale
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky “Dance of Sugarplum Fairy” from The Nutcracker
George Handel “Alla hornpipe” from Suite No. 2 in D Major from Water Music
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K.550 - I. Molto allegro
Aram Khachaturian “Sabre Dance” from Gayane
Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 94 in G Major, “Surprise” - II. Andante
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 - I. Allegro
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky “Trepak” from The Nutcracker Suite , op. 71a
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Marche Slave in B-flat Major, op. 31
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, op. 55 “Eroica” - III. Scherzo
Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique - IV. March to the Scaffold
Bedrich Smetana “Vltava,” No. 2 “Moldau” from Má vlast in E Minor
Ludwig van Beethoven Overture to Egmont in F Minor, op. 84
Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, op.14 - V. Witches’ Sabbath
Edward Elgar “Nimrod” from Enigma Variations
Johann Strauss, Jr. An der schönen blauen Donau, Waltzes in D Major, op. 314
Ferde Grofé “On the Trail” from Grand Canyon Suite
Edward Elgar Pomp and Circumstance for Orchestra in D Major, No. 1, op. 39/1
Franz Von Suppé Overture to Dichter und Bauer in D Major, “Poet and Peasant”
