Accessible Orchestral Repertoire - (Music Finders) Annotated by Daniel Chetel (Hardcover)

About the Book

Accessible Orchestral Repertoire is a repertoire and programming resource for any conductor who leads a non-professional symphonic orchestra. Modeled on and complimentary to Daniels' Orchestral Music, the book will help every conductor selecting repertoire that will feature an...

Book Synopsis

Accessible Orchestral Repertoire is a repertoire and programming resource for any conductor who leads a non-professional symphonic orchestra. Modeled on and complimentary to Daniels' Orchestral Music, the book will help every conductor selecting repertoire that will feature and enrich individual non-professional ensembles.

Review Quotes

Accessible Orchestral Repertoire is a valuable reference resource which will surely take its place on the desk of many conductors. The notes describing the musical elements and musical difficulties of each piece are particularly interesting and useful.

Here is the book I wish I had, back in the 1960s when I first started conducting youth and community orchestras. Daniel Chetel's book will be useful to the neophyte conductor, as well as those of more experience, who are sure to find new and tempting scores to consider.

This is a welcomed and long-awaited source for conductors and administrators of educational and community ensembles, in which Chetel mindfully responds to current cultural and artistic challenges of the ever-shifting orchestral world. While including a desperately needed component of underrepresented creative output, this book recognizes the needs of a truly diverse array of ensembles.

About the Author

Daniel Chetel is the director of orchestral activities and assistant professor of music at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL. Chetel moved to the Quad Cities in 2016 after concluding his five-year tenure as the Music Director and Conductor of the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras in Lexington, KY.