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 friend Alfred E. Rodewald and the members of the Liverpool Orchestral Society". The instrumentation is: two piccolos (2nd "ad lib."), two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets in A, bass clarinet in A, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns in F, two trumpets in F, two cornets in A, three trombones, tuba, three timpani, percussion (bass drum, cymbals, triangle, side drum, jingles, glockenspiel (ad. lib.) and tambourine (ad lib.)), two harps, organ, and strings. The best known of the six marches, "Pomp And Circumstance March No. 1 In D" had its premiere, along with March No. 2, in Liverpool on 19 October