Karl Miller wrote:

>If you were in charge of the programming of a major orchestra, what
>would you choose for the repertoire for a season of say some 16-18
>concerts?  What would your programs be?  Would you be willing to outline
>the repertoire for those concerts?

To which I reply with the annoucement of the Fictive '07-'08 Season
Calendar:

Bart=C3=B3k: Music for Strings, Percussion, & Celesta
Berg: Violin Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 12 a=80=9CThe Year 1917a=80=9D

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Copland: Four Dance Episodes from a=80=98Rodeoa=80=99
Berio: Sinfonia
Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 a=80=9CThe Age of Anxietya=80=9D

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Mozart: Kyrie K. 341
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Debussy: Le Martyre de St. S=C3=A9bastien

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Berg: 7 Fr=C3=BChe Lieder
Mahler: Symphony No. 4

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Dukas: La=80=99Apprenti Sorcier
Poulenc: Les Animaux Mod=C3=A8les
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane
Ravel: La Valse

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Walton: Scapino
Barber: Piano Concerto
Rautavaara: Symphony No. 7 a=80=9CAngel of Lighta=80=9D

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Weber: "Der Freischutz" Overture
Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 a=80=9CJupitera=80=9D

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Schumann: Genoveva Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

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Tcherepnin: Le Royaume Enchant=C3=A9
Szymanowski: Symphony No. 2
Khachaturian: Violin Concerto

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Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq da=80=99Or Suite
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

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Respighi: Fountains of Rome
Debussy: La Mer
Bart=C3=B3k: The Wooden Prince

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Stravinsky: Scherzo Fantastique
Debussy: Nocturnes
Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo=C3=A9

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Bart=C3=B3k: Hungarian Sketches
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Stravinsky: P=C3=A9trouchka

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Messiaen: Un Sourire
Boulez: a=80oExplosante-Fixea=80o
Webern: Symphony Op. 21
Lutos=C5=82awski: Piano Concerto

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Scriabin: Le Po=C3=A8me de la=80=99Extase
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 1
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

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Taneyev: Cantata No. 2 a=80=9CAt the Reading of a Psalma=80=9D
Howells: Hymnus Paradisi

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Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Bruch: Concerto for 2 Pianos
Schumann: Symphony No. 4

... and No. 18, out of pure gluttony:

Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead
Khachaturian: Cello Concerto
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5

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