Minnesota Youth Symphonies explore the musical nuances that enhance the overall orchestration. String seating is rotated each trimester; brass, woodwind and percussion rotate from piece to piece. (Badelt/Rickett) "Pirates of the Caribbean"; (Bizet) 'Carmen Suite No. 1 & No. 2; (Elgar) "Pomp & Circumstance No. 1 & 4"; (Gershwin/Sayre) "Selections from Porgy & Bess"; Offenbach: "Orpheus in the Underworld"; (Rimsky-Korsakov) "Dance of the Tumblers from “The Snow Maiden”",“Procession of the Nobles: from Mlada; Sibelius: Finlandia; Stravinsky/Isaac: Dance Infernale and Berceuse & Finale; Strauss, J.: Radetzky March; Verdi: “Anvil Chorus” from Il Travatore; (Webber) "Selections from “The Phantom of the Opera"”; (Williams) "Dry Your
Composed (album) huge orchestra". After recording the instrumental parts, Bischoff then visited each of the guest vocalists to record them, apart from Caetano Veloso and David Byrne, who recorded their own parts at home. The other guest vocalists on the album are Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Mirah Zeitlyn, Paris Hurley, Nels Cline, Craig Wedren, Carla Bozulich, Zac Pennington (Parenthetical Girls), Soko and Dawn McCarthy (Faun Fables). In a 4/5 star review, "The Guardian" describes "Composed" album as "a collection of lavishly orchestrated pop songs that throb with expressionistic drama, by turns romantic, playful and faintly sinister" adding, "occasionally Composed sounds indulgent, when Bischoff