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CutTime Players™ - Repertoire List

Ever expanding the concept of a "miniature orchestra" inspired by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, director Rick Robinson continues to transcribe for this versatile ensemble world-famous symphonic, chamber and piano works. CutTime Players' library now includes over one hundred major and minor classical, jazz, Christmas and other famous works including but not limited to the following list.

Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks by Richard Strauss
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas
Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper by Jaromir Weinberger
• Suite from The Comedians by Dimitri Kabalevsky
• Suite for Flute and Jazz Septet by Claude Bolling
• Suite for Violin and Jazz Septet by Claude Bolling
• Espana Rhapsody by Emmanuel Chabrier
• Menuetto from Symphony No. 4 by Felix Mendelssohn
Spring and Winter from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
• Lento movement from Symphony No. 1 by Adolphus Hailstork
• Passacaglia and Fugue in c-minor by J.S. Bach
• Russlan & Ludmilla Overture by Mikhail Glinka
• William Tell Overture by Gioacchino Rossini
• Scherzo from Symphony No. 4 by Johannes Brahms
• Rustle of Spring by Christian Sinding
• Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Moussorgsky
• Carnival of Venice Trumpet Variations by Herbert Clarke
• Scherzo from Suite No. 3 by Peter Tchaikovsky
• First Movement from Symphony No. 25 by Wolfgang A. Mozart
• Slow movement from Symphony No. 1 by Gustav Mahler
• Gymnopedie No. 1 by Erik Satie
• Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens
• A Witches Sabbath from Symphony Fantasique by Hector Berlioz
• Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 by George Enesco
• Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms
• Comedians' Dance from The Bartered Bride by Bedrich Smetana
• Suite from CARMEN by Georges Bizet
• Funeral March for a Marionette by Charles Gounod
• A whole Christmas program including Handel's Hallelujah Chorus
• Several short works featuring each member of CutTime Players for PACK YOUR BAGS Tiny Tots program
• Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck
• Channukah Medley by Jeff Tyzik

In 1997 CutTime Players introduced a new suite entitled Animal Circus which features familiar music by various composers which suggest animals at a circus. The suite also features a narration for The Ringmaster. The movements include:

• (Introduction) Entrance of the Gladiators March - Julius Fucik
• Royal March of the Lion from Carnival of the Animals - Camille Saint-Saëns
• Peasant Enters with a Bear from Petrushka - Igor Stravinsky
• The Elephant from Carnival of the Animals
• (Dinosuars) Ritual Action of the Ancestors from The Rite of Spring - Igor Stravinsky
Fossils from Carnival of the Animals
The Trout from the "Trout" Quintet - Franz Schubert
• (Acrobats & Jugglers) Dance of the Ballerina from Petrushka - Igor Stravinsky
The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
• (Flying Horse) Ride of the Valkyries from The Valkyries - Richard Wagner



Recent seasons saw the development of many new transcriptions including...

• The Nutcracker Suite by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Symphony of Brotherhood (I Have A Dream) by Rick Robinson
• Air from Suite No. 2 by J. S. Bach
• Largo and Scherzo from Symphony No. 5 by Dimitri Shostakovich
• Sweet Chariot Jubilee by David E. Robinson III
• Animato from Afro-American Symphony by William Grant Still
• Cossack Dance from The Fantastic Toy Shop by Rossini/Respighi
• Martin Luther King from Three Black Kings by Duke and Mercer Ellington

The development of A MOZART CELEBRATION program including:
• Overture to The Marriage of Figaro by W. A. Mozart
• Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by W. A. Mozart
• Clarinet Concerto in A by W. A. Mozart
• Rondo Alla Turca by W. A. Mozart
• Flute Variations On Ein Madchen Oder Weibchen by W. A. Mozart
• Motet Ave Verum Corpus by W. A. Mozart
• Sinfonia Op. 18 No. 4 by J. C. Bach
• Rondo from the Gran Partita by W. A. Mozart
• COMPLETE Symphony No. 40 by W. A. Mozart


And the inclusion of an OUTRAGEOUSLY ORIGINAL work called... Dead Elvis

by former DSO composer-in-residence Michael Daugherty
This challenging work features bassoonist Bob Williams in an ELVIS COSTUME jamming on
Graceland classic It's Now or Never and the famous Dies Irae melody!!



This season is bringing many NEW arrangements including...

Largo movement from Symphony No. 9 by Antonin Dvorak
Prelude in C-sharp minor by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Intermezzo in A Major Op. 118 No. 2 by Johannes Brahms
Opening movement of Symphony No. 5 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Select Hungarian & Slavonic Dances by Antonin Dvorak & Johannes Brahms

 
You may also enjoy reading about some of this repertoire 
Or listening to MP3 files! And here are 3 YouTube VIDEOS of their adventures... including an M.I.T. Robotics Video!
For live performance info, go here!
Sheet music for many of these arrangements are currently available from CutTime Productions.