"We play music of many styles arranged for mandolin orchestra.
Here is the Minnesota mandolin orchestra's description of their music: Here is my original statement: "The repertoire for most mandolin orchestras here is rag-time era music, arrangements of popular music and an occasional dip into "light" classics." # This thread (once I shut up) could be a great place for other groups to tell us what they play. I just want to make the point to our friends on other continents that there are many varieties of music being played by U.S. Please note that I mean no criticism of the Milwaukee group (who play beautifully and have the history to play the older music authentically) or Linda (who contributes so much to the cause of classical mandolin). Offhand I can think of the Nashville group, the Montana group, the Minnesota group, the Atlanta group and the Fretworks youth group in Alabama who have repertoires that include a lot of recent music and not very much of the ragtime era. Also included are two pieces by Francois Menichetti (French?) and an arrangement by Konrad Wolki. The group's CD from 2000, Mandoscapes, feature 3 Italian compositions one by Calace and two by Giuseppe Manente.
Paul Johnson on a CD entitled the Apollo Project (which they share with the Sydney Mandolins). The LMO has also recorded commissioned works by A. His Stephen Foster medley was played at last year's CMSA and his arrangement of Gluck's Iphegenia overture is great. Some of the listed pieces were excellent arrangements by Jim Bates. Here's a link to a page (courtesy of the Wayback Machine) that listed the LMO's repertoire from 2001. Over time we grew to love performing some of the pieces from the "golden era" but that was always just a small part of our repertoire. Most of us were coming from the worlds of bluegrass, rock, jazz and classical music and, mistakenly, thought of that music as old-fogey. When the Louisville Mandolin Orchestra was formed in the late 1980s I think there was an unspoken prejudice against the kind of turn-of-the-century mando orchestra music that the Milwaukee group plays so superbly.
I think if others would add what they know on this topic it could be very informative.
mando orchestras play and Bob Margo's response. In the current Italian thread, I read with interest Linda's comment about what most U.S.
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