Registration for the Community Foundation's 2019 Play-Along with the South Bend Symphony is now CLOSED. We hope to repeat the event in 2020, and will post information here about it next spring. Thanks for your interest!

Once again, the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County has partnered with the South Bend Symphony to create an opportunity for community musicians to perform with the SBSO. As part of the Symphony's August 24 concert for the 2019 Community Foundation Performing Arts Series at Potawatomi Park, community musicians can join the SBSO to perform Edvard Grieg's “In the Hall of the Mountain King” and Leonard Bernstein's "Mambo" from West Side Story.

Each community musician will be asked to bring his/her instrument, sheet music, and a music stand to the Chris Wilson Pavilion at Potawatomi Park on Saturday, August 24, for the performance. We'll provide chairs. There will be two mandatory rehearsals for this performance: The first will be Thursday, August 22, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Kroc Center in South Bend. This rehearsal will be with Alastair Willis, the SBSO's music director. The second rehearsal will be at 4:15 p.m. on Saturday, August 24, the day of the performance. This will be a much shorter (~30 minute) rehearsal at the Chris Wilson Pavilion at Potawatomi Park, where the concert will be held.

You can start practicing right now! Provided through an agreement with the Richmond, VA, Symphony, these versions of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" and "Mambo" are free for participating play-along musicians to download and print. You'll find all the parts below in .pdf format.

NEW THIS YEAR: For the first time, we have THREE SKILLS LEVELS of orchestral parts available—Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced. For those of you who have been part of the Play-Along in the past, you'll find that the Advanced parts are most similar to previous years' music. But if you're new to the event, you may want to choose Basic or Intermediate. We want YOU to have an enjoyable experience with music that you feel comfortable playing, so choose whichever level of part works best for you!
 

PARTS

2019 Play-Along Parts for "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (in .pdf format)

BASIC:

Bass Clarinet	Bass	Bassoon	Cello
Clarinet I	Clarinet II	Flute	Horn
Oboe	Trombone	Trumpet	Viola
Violin

INTERMEDIATE:

Bass Clarinet	Bass	Bassoon	Cello
Clarinet I	Clarinet II	Flute	Horn
Oboe	Trombone	Trumpet	Viola
Violin

 
ADVANCED:

Bass Drum	Bass	Bass Trombone	Bassoon I
Bassoon II	Cello	Clarinet I	Clarinet II
Flute I	Flute II	Horn I	Horn II
Horn III	Horn IV	Oboe I	Oboe II
Piccolo	Triangle/Cymbal	Trombone I	Trombone II
Tuba	Viola	Violin I	Violin II
Trumpet I	Trumpet II

 
FULL ORCHESTRAL SCORE FOR "In the Hall of the Mountain King"
 

Parts: 2019 Play-Along Parts for "Mambo" (in .pdf format)

Please note: All percussion parts use THIS SCORE, regardless of level:
ALL_Percussion_Bernstein.pdf

BASIC:

Bass	Bass Clarinet	Bassoon	Cello
Clarinet	Flute	Horn	Oboe
Trombone	Trumpet	Tuba	Viola
Violin

INTERMEDIATE:

Bass	Bassoon	Cello	Clarinet
Flute	Horn	Oboe	Trombone
Trumpet	Tuba	Viola	Violin

ADVANCED:

Bass	Bassoon I	Bassoon II	Cello
Clarinet I	Clarinet II/Bass Clarinet	Flute I	Flute II/Piccolo
Harp I	Harp II	Horn I	Horn II
Horn III	Horn IV	Oboe I	Oboe II
Trombone I	Trombone II	Trombone III	Trumpet I
Trumpet II	Trumpet III	Tuba	Viola
Violin I	Violin II

FULL ORCHESTRAL SCORE FOR "Mambo"