Orchestra Poem by Ahmad Shiddiqi

(dedicated to Classical Music lovers, The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, and The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus)

apparent
resonant
rapturous
con spirito

soothing
brooding
appealing
devozione

endless
flawless
countless
con lenezza

vast palette
tone colors
exceptional
deeply personal

melodic
dynamic
rhythmic
harmonic

crowning glory
crowd-pleasing
showpiece-style
masterly playing

baton
supreme
joie de vivre
par excellence

solid
sublime
exciting
brilliant

brisk
charm
sparkle
tasteful

dexterity
suppleness
responsive
sentimentality

integrity
superbly
beautifully
masterfully

plaintive
ponderous
anticipated
exasperated

flexible
reportorial
impressive
folk material

texture
vivacity
pleasure
transparent

poise
subtle
elegance
refinement

tangible
attentive
delightful
triumphant

mighty
esteemed
celebrated
established

embrace
sensuous
enthusiastic
effervescent

grandiose
deservedly
tempestuous
encompassed

nimble agility
exquisite beauty
fiery impetuosity
lyrical outpourings

the bright timbres
rambunctious score
exhilarating fashion
scrupulous interpreter

witty panoply
acerbic harmonies
cascading lightness
invigorating accompaniment

delicacy
graceful
wizardly
astringency

glorious
lustrous
mellifluous
melancholy

dreamy
velvety
visceral
evocative

hushed
magical
cyclorama
silken waves

groove
floating
steady beat
the cacophony

endured
enriched
encouraged
enlightened

deepened
broadened
lengthened
strengthened

buoyant
accuracy
gleaming
exposure

aural glare
tonal beauty
much feeling
dramatic mood

fabulous chorus
standing ovations
evoking expression
introducing peaceful

apt velocity
rousing bravura
eloquent flavors
humored panache

inspired
restrained
motivated
innovative

subtler hues
barely audible
pointillist effects
consistently fascinating

ballet
opera
concerto
overture

aria
fantasia
fanfare
premiere

chorus
prelude
rhapsody
symphony

variations
the oratorio
music drama
symphonic poem

coda
cadenza
cantata
operetta

march
eroica
funeral
intermezzo

pathetique
fantastique
romantique
melancolique

adagio
allegro
andante
tranquillo

largo
moderato
presto
vivace

molto
poco
assai
quasi

pizzicato
con sordino
martellato

staccato
legato
legatura

accelerando
allargando
meno mosso

rallentando
ritardando
rubato

bewegt
lebhaft
feierlich

langsam
schnell
urlicht

mäßig
rasch
heftig

assez vif
rapide
lent

très
moins
modéré

impulsive
pejorative
inner gloom
heart-rending

to love
to enjoy
to spread
to nurture

to share
to depict
to involve
to describe

tragic
turmoil
grotesque
poignancy

intensely
mentally
eventually
momentarily

reuse
solace
languid
emotional

fanciful
intoxicating
promenade
masquerade

earnestly
seriously
vehemently
spontaneity

healing
essence
irresistible
irreplaceable

array
notes
current
themes

brass
strings
percussion
woodwinds

horn, trumpet, trombone, tuba, saxophone
violin, viola, cello, double bass, harp, pianoforte
timpani, snare drum, xylophone, gong, tubular bells
piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bassoon

Zubin Mehta
Kent Nagano
Valery Gergiev

Fritz Busch
Artur Nikisch
Václav Talich

Fritz Reiner
Erich Kleiber
Otto Klemperer

Nicolai Malko
Ataulfo Argenta
Victor de Sabata

Georg Tintner
Wilhelm Gericke
Willi Boskovsky

Carmen Moral
Grzegorz Fitelberg
Agnieszka Duczmal

Seiji Ozawa
Osmo Vanska
Charles Dutoit

Anthony Wit
Clemens Krauss
Richard Tognetti

Alberto Zelman
Richard Gill
John Hopkins

Sakari Oramo
Gunnsteinn Ólafsson
Andrea Veneracion

Jahja Ling
Ludovic Morlot
Kirill Petrenko

Robert Sands
Silvestre Revueltas
Loris Tjeknavorian

Pinchas Steinberg
Marc Minkowski
Paavo Jarvi

Harry Norris
Nicolino Pellegrini
Gottfried von der Goltz

Edo de Waart
Sherif Mohie El Din
Morten Ryelund Sørensen

Otmar Suitner
Heinrich Schiff
Lorenz Duftschmid

Enrique Jordá
Alberto Quintero
Angel Gil-Ordoñez

Andris Nelsons
Nicholas McGegan
Giancarlo Guerrero

Libor Pešek
Zdeně k Chalabala
Lovro von Matač ić

Victor Borge
Mr. Arthur Fiedler
Vladimir Ashkenazy

Philippe Herreweghe
Eleazar de Carvalho
Alexander Yossifov

Mr. Mario Bernardi
Nicholas Goldschmidt
Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Erich Kunzell
Eduardo Mata
Andre Kostelanetz

Gerónimo Giménez
Jesús López-Cobos
Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos

Leo Ginsburg
Aleksandr Gauk
Vladimir Fedoseyev

Tay Teow Kiat
Ladislau Pietro Horvath
António Fortunato de Figueiredo

Samuil Samosud
Nikolai Golovanov
Konstantin Symeonov

Karl Eliasberg
Dmitri Kitajenko
Maxim Shostakovich

Nikolai Sokoloff
Evgeny Svetlanov
Christoph von Dohnanyi

Jessica Cottis
Sarah Ioannides
Simone Young

Ondrej Lenárd
Aleksandar Džambazov
Lucijan Marija Škerjanc

Simon Rattle
Claudio Abbado
Leopold Stokowski

Carlo Evasio Soliva
Werner Wolf Glaser
Niklaus Aeschbacher

Neeme Järvi
Bernard Haitink
Franz Welser-Most

Sir Charles Hallé
Sir John Pritchard
Sir Charles Groves

Walter Weller
David Atherton
Marek Janowski

Libor Pešek
Petr Altrichter
Gerard Schwarz

Gianandrea Noseda
Michael Dworzynski
Francois-Xavier Roth

Yuri Temirkanov
Daniel Harding
Leif Segerstam

Rebecca Miller
Stefan Asbury
Hugh Grunt

Donal Runicles
Kristjan Jarvi
Andre Previn

Pierre Boulez
John Eliot Gardiner
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Artur Rodzinski
Yevgeny Mravinsky
Serge Koussevitzky

Pierre Monteux
Rafael Kubelik
Igor Markevitch

Karl Bohm
Oskar Fried
Bruno Walter

Jong Won Park
Chien Wen-pin
Datuk Ooi Chean See

José Serebrier
Elnara Kerimova
Jean-Marie Auberson

Karel Ancerl
Carl Schuricht
Charles Munch

Bundit Ungrangsee
Rodolfo Saglimbeni
Oleksander Koshyts

Gunther Wand
Rudolf Kempe
Herbert Blumstedt

Lim Kek-tjiang
Charles Gerhardt
Afrasiyab Badalbeyli

Albert Coates
Ferenc Fricsay
Ernest Ansermet

Jansug Kakhidze
Christian Zacharias
Antonio de Almeida

David Zinman
Mariss Jansons
Rudolf Kempe

Stasys Šimkus
Jā zeps Vī tols
Alan Buribaev

Xian Zhang
Diane Wittry
Margaret Hillis

Chan Tze Law
JoAnn Falletta
Antonia Brico

Akira Endo
Armen Anassian
Jasmina Novokmet

Rachael Worby
Alondra de la Parra
Vítě zslava Kaprálová

Arturo Toscanini
Eugene Ormandy
Herbert von Karajan

Thomas Beecham
Gustavo Dudamel
Florence Louise Pettitt

Sir Neville Marriner
Sir Roger Norrington
Christopher Hogwood

Mr. George Szell
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Michael Tilson Thomas

Andre Cluytens
Sir Henry Wood
Felix Weingartner

Mr. Paul Kletzki
Sir John Barbirolli
Carlo Maria Giulini

Sergiu Celibidache
Dimitri Mitropoulos
Nikolai Golovanov

Willem Mengelberg
Eduard van Beinum
Hermann Scherchen

Sir John Barbirolli
Leonard Bernstein
Daniel Barenboim

Tullio Serafin
Andre Previn
Leonard Slatkin

Kurt Masur
Fritz Reiner
Lorin Maazel

Riccardo Muti
Sir Georg Solti
Richard Bonynge

Sir Colin Davis
Sir Adrian Boult
Richard Hickox

James Levine
Raymond Leppard
Sir Charles Mackerras

Helmuth Rilling
Erich Leinsdorf
Gerard Schwarz

Marin Alsop
Trevor Pinnock
Myung-whun Chung

Sir Malcolm Sargent
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Gianandrea Gavazzeni

Gustav Holst's The Planets
Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana
Henryk Gorecki's Totus Tuus
Arvo Pärt's Johannespassion

Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach
John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer
Peggy Glanville-Hicks' Etruscan Concerto

Benjamin Britten's War Requiem
George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children
Johannes Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem

Arnold Bax's Tintagel
Bohuslav Martinů 's Gilgamesh
Ferde Grofé's Grand Canyon Suite

Mikhail Glinka's Kamarinskaya
Maurice Ravel's Bolero, Daphnis et Chloe
Sergey Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances

Douglas Lilburn's Aotearoa
Karel Goeyvaerts' Aquarius
Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato

Chen Yi's Chinese Myths Cantata
Osvaldo Golijov's St. Mark Passion
David Lang's Little Match Girl Passion

Witold Lutosł awski's Musique funebre, Jeux vénitiens
Steve Reich's Desert Music, Music for 18 Musicians
Samuel Barber's Symphony in One Movement

Mauricio Kagel's Staatstheater
Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium
Heinz Holliger's Schneewittchen

Per Nørgård's Voyage into the Golden Screen
Alexander Goehr's Behold the Sun Romanza
Pierre Boulez' Le marteau sans maître

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Stimmung, Mantra, Tierkreis
Henri Pousseur's Trois visages à Liège, Couleurs croisées
Helmut Lachenmann's Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern

Alexander Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy
Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain
Alexander Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia

Arnold Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden, Moses und Aron
Hector Berlioz's Te Deum, L'Enfance du Christ, Harold en Italie
Francis Poulenc's Motets pour le temps de noël, Babar the Elephant

Heinrich Isaac's Choralis Constantinus
George Frideric Handel's Israel in Egypt
Ralph Vaughan Williams's Mass in G minor

Paul Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Cesar Franck’s Les Eolides, Le chasseur maudit
Camille Saint-Saëns’ Le rouet d'Omphale, Danse Macabre

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet, Manfred
Claude Debussy's La Mer, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, Also Sprach Zarathustra

Dmitri Kabalevsky's The Comedians
Darius Milhaud's La Création du Monde
Michael Tippett's The Midsummer Marriage

Dmitri Shostakovich's The Gadfly Suite, Katerina Ismailova
Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No.5, Finlandia, En Saga, Tapiola
Sergey Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, L' Amour des 3 Oranges

Alois Hába's Matka
Silvestre Revueltas' Sensemayá
George Antheil's Ballet mécanique

Joseph Haydn's Orlando paladino
Antonio Vivaldi's Orlando furioso
Giacomo Puccini’s Messa di Gloria

Vincenzo Bellini ‘s Beatrice di Tenda
Giuseppe Verdi’s Quattro Pezzi Sacri
Sir Edward Elgar’s Pageant of Empire

Gioachino Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle
Claudio Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Jean-Baptiste Lully's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les surprises de l'Amour
Gaetano Donizetti ‘s Sinfonia Concertante in D major
Giovanni Pergolesi’s La conversione e morte di San Guglielmo

Alban Berg's Lyric Suite, Wozzeck
Heitor Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras
Anton Webern's Six Pieces for Orchestra

Arthur Honegger's Pacific 231
Walter Piston's The Incredible Flutist
Edgard Varèse's Amériques, Ionisation, Arcana

George Gershwin's An American in Paris
Paul Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis, Mathis der Maler
Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts, The Mother of Us All

Gyorgy Ligeti's Atmosphères
Bedř ich Smetana’s Má vlast
Iannis Xenakis' Metastasis

Leoš Janáč ek's Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba
Charles Ives' Three Places in New England
Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man

Hamilton Harty's An Irish Symphony
Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony
Josef Suk's A Winter's Tale

Zoltán Kodály's Dances of Galanta
George Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody No.1
Béla Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

John Coolidge Adams' Harmonielehre
Manuel de Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat
Britten’s The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Mark-Anthony Turnage's Three Screaming Popes
Gunther Schuller's Of Reminiscences and Reflections
Oliver Knussen's Hums and Songs of Winnie-the-Pooh

Antonín Dvoř ák’s The Golden Spinning Wheel, Rusalka
Tō ru Takemitsu's A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden
Penderecki's Stabat Mater, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima

Olivier Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony
Alexander von Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony
Henry Purcell's King Arthur, The Moor's Revenge

Peter Sculthorpe's Kakadu, Earth Cry
Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King
Franz Liszt’s Les Preludes, Orpheus, Faust, Dante Symphonies

Robert Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri
Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Beherrscher der Geister
Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold, Der Fliegende Holländer
Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Legend of The Invisible City of Kitezh, Sadko

Peter Boyer's Dreaming a World
Bob Chilcott's Be Simple Little Children
John Milford Rutter's Mass of the Children

J S Bach's Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied
Ludwig van Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, Pastoral
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No.41, Jupiter

(inspired by all wonderful orchestral, operatic, and choral music)