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Concert Clips:

Mendelssohn: Two movements from the Octet, Op. 20, arranged for String Orchestra (February 6-8, 2009). High Quality VBR mp3. 

Mozart: Divertimento in D Major, KV 136, for String Orchestra, (October 21, 2007)
Medium Quality VBR mp3. Click on the movement title to download:
I. Allegro | II. Andante | III. Presto 

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op. 48 (February 13, 2005).
96kbps mp3. Click on the movement title to download:
I. Pezzo in forma di Sonatina | II. Walzer | III. Elegie | IV. Finale (Tema russo)

Beethoven, Finale from the Quartet Op. 59, No. 3, arr. for string orchestra (October 23, 2005).
128kbps mp3, 5.5MB, click here to download

Schoenberg, Verklaerte Nacht, Op. 4 (arr. for string orchestra by the composer in 1917) (October 22, 2006). 128kbps mp3 -- Note: VERY large file (32.6 MB), click here to download

Overtures Newsletter past issues (PDF):

• December 2008
• August 2008
• May 2008
• December 2007
• August 2007

News archives:

• San Domenico School Orchestra Takes Top Honors in National Competition, March 3, 2010
• Marin IJ article on National Festival Victory, March 5, 2008
• School Band & Orchestra Cover Story, March 19, 2008 
  
  San Anselmo's San Domenico Upper School is a private, all-girl catholic high school set in a pastoral wooded campus just outside San Francisco. Although it is among the oldest independent schools in the state of California, over the past few years San Domenico has been gaining notoriety in the music world for... (read the full interview here)
• 30th Anniversary Celebration
• Congratulations from State Assemblyman Jared Huffman
• Herbst Theater/ Strings Mag Gala concert announcement
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