Imagine that a theatre near you announced a repertoire featuring plays by Edward Albee, Edward Bond, Caryl Churchill, David Hare, Henrik Ibsen, David Mamet and Tom Stoppard.
During Zhang's three-year appointment in Cardiff, she will conduct the BBC orchestra in annual concerts at BBC Hoddinott Hall, St David's Hall and Brangwyn Hall, with repertoire featuring Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rimsky-Korsakov and Berlioz in her first season.
Those first categories (big names, nice-but-safe repertoire) feature the likes of Mitsuko Uchida playing Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Christine Brewer singing Strauss, Leonidas Kavakos playing Brahms, the Oslo Philharmonic playing Grieg, Valery Gergiev conducting The Rite of Spring.
In addition to some music by Stephen Foster, their repertoire featured music by black composers such as James Bland, a popular singer-banjoist who wrote some 700 songs, including "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny".
Strasburg's repertoire features four pitches: a four-seam fastball, his primary pitch at 95-98 mph which tops out at 100 mph; a two-seam fastball at 94-97 mph; a curveball that Strasburg himself refers to as a slurve at 79-82 mph; and a changeup at 87-90 mph.
Their repertoire featured interpretations of "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" and Dave Brubeck's recent composition "In Your Own Sweet Way"; the latter focused on Costa's vibes and Farmer's muted trumpet, with Woods switching from his usual alto saxophone to the piano.
2. Their current repertoire features six classics: Maiden's "Hallowed Be Thy Name", "Fear of the Dark" and "The Trooper", plus Megadeth's "Countdown to Extinction", "Blood of Heroes" and "Dawn Patrol".
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The repertoire notably features many distinctive melodramas from the nineteen-forties and fifties.
Under Mackerras and his successors the Czech repertoire has featured strongly, and a broad range of French and Russian operas has been presented.
The concert offering next season will be a celebration of French repertoire on April 25 , 2014 featuring two bright young talents, soprano Nicole Cabell and tenor Stephen Costello.
