September 28, 2025
Visions and Virtuosos
Franz Lehár, Eine Vision (Meine Jugend) Ouverturery
Pedro Iturralde, Orchestral Czárdás (featuring Caroline Ning, 2025 Concerto Competition Youth winner on alto saxophone)
Jacques Ibert, Ibert Flute Concerto, Mvt. III (featuring Rebecca Deal, 2025 Concerto Competition Young Adult winner on flute)
Carl Reinecke, Dritte Symphonie (Third Symphony), op. 227 (Premiere U.S. Performance!)
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Hidden Treasures from the United Kingdom
E.J. Moeran, In the Mountain Country
Eric Coates, London (London Every Day), Suite for Orchestra
Arthur Sullivan, Symphony in E (The Irish) for Orchestra
DECEMBER 13, 2024
5th Annual Cathedral Christmas Festival (Part 1)
Gustav Holst – Christmas Day – Choral Fantasy on Old Carols
Frederick Delius – Sleigh Ride
Adolphe Charles Adam (arr. Calvn Custer) – O Holy Night
Arthur H. Brown (arr. Albert Oliver Davis) – Elizabethan Carol
Traditional Christmas sing-along music for chorus, orchestra and audience, including:
Angels We Have Heard on High
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Joy to the World
O Come, All Ye Faithful
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Silent Night
What Child Is This?
OCTOBER 4, 2024
Three Blind Mice
Patrick Thomas, local composer – Journey to a Glorious Day (premiere)
W.A. Mozart – Ruhe Sanft, Mein Holdes Leben from the opera Zaïde, (featuring vocalist Noelle Harb)
Serge Koussevitzky – Double Bass Concerto, Op. 3, (featuring bassist Lance Gaupp, 2024 concerto competition winner)
Intermission (featuring harpist Megan Keb)
Felix Mendelssohn – Ruy Blas, Op. 95
Giacomo Puccini – Suor Angelica Intermezzo
Joseph Holbrooke – Three Blind Mice, Op.37, No.1
MAY 3, 2024
New Favorites
George Frideric Handel, arr. Sir Edward Elgar – Overture in D Minor,
Frank Bridge – The Sea, A Suite for Orchestra
Vasily Kalinnikov – Symphony No. 1 in G Minor
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Sing to the Lord: 4th Annual Cathedral Christmas Festival (Part 1)
Traditional, Arr. by Douglas E. Wagner – A Festival of Carols
Traditional, Arr. by Bob Cerulli – Christmas Sing-A-Long
Traditional, Adapted and Arr. by Alfred Reed – Greensleeves
Arr. by Brian Luckner – O Holy Night (with Chorus)
Leontovich, Wilhousky (Arr. by RIchard Hayman) – Carol of the Bells
Humperdink – Evening Prayer and Dream Pantomime from Hansel and Gretel
Traditional, Arr. by Robert A. Hudson – Away in a Manager
Traditional, Arr. by Robert A. Hudson – The First Noel
Bizet (rev. by Varum Soontornniyomkij- L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2: IV. Farandole (revised version)
NOVEMBER 3 , 2023
Something Old, Something New
Strauss – Ohne Sorgen
Saint-Saëns – Introduction et rondo capriccioso, Op. 28 (featuring soloist Chris Keum, 2023 Youth Concerto Competition Winner)
Holst – A Fugal Overture
Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto, Op. 35 (featuring soloist Elizabeth Burch, 2023 Adult Concerto Competition Winner)
Dvořák – Symphony No. 9, Op. 95 “New World”
APRIL 28, 2023
Sketches
Elgar – Sevillaña, Op.7
Debussy – D’un cahier d’esquisses
Glazunov – Finnish Sketches, Op.89
Chadwick – Symphonic Sketches
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Time and the mountains
Copland – Fanfare For the Common Man
Weber – Der Beherrscher der Geister, Op.27
Haydn – Symphony No. 101
Franck – Ce qu’on entend sur la montagne
Enescu – Rhapsody No.1, Op. 11
MAY 6, 2022
Orchestra Treats
Rossini – Overture to the opera William Tell (French opera composed by an Italian based on a German play itself based on Swiss legend)
Sibelius – Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47, Mvt. 1
Holst – “Jupiter” from The Planets
Coleridge-Taylor – Rhapsodic Dance, The Bamboula, Op. 75
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, Mvt. 1
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
A Fantasy, a Discovery, and a Premiere
Strauss Jr. – Perpetuum Mobile & Kuss Waltz
Wright – A Kingdom Where Nobody Dies
Bruch – The Scottish Fantasy in E-flat major, Op. 46 – Introduction and mvts. I & II
Ries – Symphony No.4
DEC 7, 2019
Christmas Festival of Joy at Johnson University
Combined (SCO & Johnson University Choir) Selections
Ames (arr.)- Gloria Fanfare
Hoggard (arr.)- Personent Hodie
Forrest (arr.)- See, Amid the Winter’s Snow
Forrest (arr.)- Blessed is the Lord (Benedictus)
Berlioz- The Shepherd’s Farewell to the Holy Family
Martin (arr.)- Joy to the Word
SCO Selections
Humperdinck- Evening Prayer and Dream Pantomime scene from Hansel and Gretel
Hayman (arr.)- Carol of the Bells
Ades (arr.)- A Carol Festival
NOV 22, 2019
Bohemian Romance
Verdi – Overture to La forza del destino
Dvorak – Silent Woods
Smetana – The Moldau
Dvorak – Romance, Op.11
Dvorak – Symphony No. 8
MAY 10, 2019
Brahms, Borodin and Budding Stars
Brahms – Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Fauré – Élégie for Cello and Orchestra
Lalo – Symphonie espagnole in D minor, Op. 21, mvt. 1
Winter- Festfanfare (intermission giving music)
Borodin – Symphony No. 2 in B minor
DECEMBER 1, 2018
Christmas Festival of Joy at Johnson University
Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Bizet – Farandole from L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2
Reed (arr.) – Greensleeves
Holst (arr.)- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Forest (arr.) – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Martin (arr.) – Joy To the World
NOVEMBER 9 & 15, 2018
All The Colors Of The Orchestra
Suppé – Ein Morgen, ein Mittag und ein Abend in Wien
Debussy – Petite Suite
Holst – A Somerset Rhapsody
Enescu – Rhapsody No.2 in D major
Nguyen – Good Morning, Moon
Tchaikovsky – Introduction from Mazeppa
Bizet – “Farandole” from L’Arlésienne Suite No.2
MAY 8, 2018
Classics and Concertos
Rimsky-Korsakov – Procession of the Nobles, from Mlada
Bottesini – Concerto in B Minor for Double Bass
Wagner – Overture from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Griffes – Poem for Flute and Orchestra
Popper – Tarantelle
Copland – Variations on a Shaker Melody
Sibelius – Symphony No. 2, Mvt. 4
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
Fire and Ice
Fire
Puccini – Coro a bocca chiusa from Madama Butterfly
Puccini – Intermezzo from Madama Butterfly
Leoncavallo – Intermezzo from Pagliacci
Mascagni – Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Rossini – Overture from Barber of Seville
Ice
Nielson – Helios Overture
Sibelius – Finlandia
Grieg – “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017
Knoxville 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb
Traditional, lyrics by Key- The Star-Spangled Banner
Traditional – Taps
Traditional (arr. Del Borgo) – Amazing Grace
Traditional (arr. Dimer) – Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
Ungar – Ashokan Farewell
Kamen (arr. Phillipe) – Music from the HBO series “Band of Brothers,”
Mascagni – Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Ward (arr. Reed) – America the Beautiful
MacDowell – “Dirge” from Second (“Indian”) Suite
Elgar – “Nimrod” from Enigma Variations
Berlin (arr. Christopher & Moss) – God Bless America
Story – Freedom Finale
APRIL 7, 2017
Around the World in Eight Pieces
Eastern Hemisphere
Asia: Traditional, (arr. Li)- Arirang (Korean: 아리랑)
India: Khan – Gandhi Symphony (Coda)
Russia: Tchaikovsky – Marche slave
Africa: Coleridge-Taylor – “Danse Nègre” from African Suite
Europe: Strauss II – An der schönen blauen Donau
Western Hemisphere
South America: Rodriguez – La cumparsita
Latin America: Lecuona (arr. Grofe) – “Malagueña” from Suite Andalucía
North America: MacDowell – Indian Suite
NOVEMBER 11, 2016
Veterans Day Concert
Presentation of the Colors with Taps (traditional)
Traditional, lyrics by Key- The Star-Spangled Banner
Williams (arr. Riggio)- Olympic theme
Ungar (arr. Cerulli) – Ashokan Farewell
Rodgers – Victory at Sea
Lowden (arr.)- Armed Forces Salute
Custer (arr.)- Salute to Big Bands
Grainger – Handel in the Strand
Ward – America the Beautiful
Copland – Lincoln Portrait
APRIL 8, 2016
Old Friends, New Faces
Traditional, lyrics by Key- The Star-Spangled Banner
Webber (arr. Custer) – Selections from Phantom of the Opera
Elgar – “Nimrod” from Enigma Variations
Beethoven – Symphony No. 5, Mvt. 1
Traditional, (arr. Reed)- Greensleeves
Verdi – Overture from Nabucco