For youth orchestra footage, please see “Mahler Symphony No. 1 with American Youth Philharmonic” below.

 

Featured Video

Jordan conducts the Peabody Conductors Orchestra in Bernstein’s Overture to Candide. April 24, 2023.


Performance Highlights

 

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00:00 with Peabody Conductors Orchestra: Bartok, Concerto for Orchestra: I. (2023)

02:09 with Peabody Conductors Orchestra: Rachmaninoff, Symphonic Dances: I. (2023)

03:16 with Peabody Conductors Orchestra: Shostakovich, Symphony No. 5: I. (2023)

06:25 with Susquehanna University Opera: Pirates of Penzance, Act I (2022)

07:06 with Susquehanna University Symphony Orchestra: Still, Symphony No. 4: II. (2021)

08:17 with Susquehanna University Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven, Symphony No. 7: II. (2021)

09:21 with Peabody Symphony Orchestra: Yan Fang, Into Dust (World Premiere) (2023)

10:25 with Susquehanna University Symphony Orchestra: Schwartz, Highlights from "Wicked" (2021)


 
 
 

Rehearsal Highlights

 

Rehearsal excerpts with various ensembles (see descriptions below),

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00:00 with Susquehanna University Symphony Orchestra - Bizet, L'Arlessienne Suite 2, II. (2022)

07:25 with a local HS County Strings Festival Orchestra - Grieg, Holberg Suite, I. (2023)

08:38 with Peabody Conductors Orchestra - Copland, Appalachian Spring (2023)

Mahler: Symphony No. 1 with American Youth Philharmonic.

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00:00 Work with percussion on opening

00:26 Reading through the opening passage

01:35 Working with violins and violas on the first entrance

03:41 Running a shorter excerpt tutti.

04:27 Upbeat to 7

05:52 Mahler is giant chamber music

09:52 Cello Bass articulation

10:40 Summarizing run-through

 
 

Longer Clips

Boulez, Dérive 2

Jordan Randall Smith and Symphony Number One perform Dérive 2 by Pierre Boulez. Performance at Baltimore’s Light Street Presbyterian Church. (2016)

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William Grant Still: Symphony No. 4, III.

Jordan leads the Susquehanna University Symphony Orchestra during a concert recording session meant for digital distribution due to COVID restrictions. (2022)

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Schwartz: Highlights from Wicked

Jordan conducts the Susquehanna University Symphony Orchestra in the music of Wicked by Steven Schwartz. SUSO is an undergraduate orchestra made up of music majors and non-majors. (2021)

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Bach, Christmas Oratorio

Jordan Randall Smith conducts the Govans Chorale and Orchestra at Govans Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland. (2017)

Jordan Randall Smith is the Music Director of Symphony Number One.