Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductor, Gideon Fagan Haydn's Symphony No. 103, in E flat (The Drum Roll), is the eighth of the series of symphonies that Haydn wrote for Salomon in London. It shows the classical symphony brought to its highest state of organisation. Apart from added richness of detail and subject-matter, the orchestration is characterised by more freedom of the wind instruments and the lower strings. In the E flat Symphony, for instance, instead of the customary strings and four wind instruments there are in addition strings, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, and drums. The Symphony derives its title from the fact that the first move. ment opens with a drum roll.