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
Pomp and Circumstance Marches which he wrote, to his wife's words, in celebration of the opening of an important new London street called Kingsway in 1909. In World War II, No. 4 also acquired words: a patriotic poem by A. P. Herbert with the refrain beginning "All men must be free" was used as "Song of Liberty". In the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer, "Pomp and Circumstance" No. 4 served as the recessional. As Diana's veil was lifted and the couple bowed and curtsied to Queen Elizabeth II, the opening notes sounded and continued as they walked down the