2026-2027 Season Themes:
1. Night at the Opera
Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Delibes: Lakme duet “Sous le dôme épais”
Mozart “Sul Aria” from Figaro
W.A. Mozart- Cosi Fan Tutte trio “Soave sia il vento”
Verdi: Traviata duet 2nd act “Ah! Dite alla Giovine”
Richard Strauss -Presentation of the Rose from Die Rosenkavalier
Donizetti Lucia di Lamermoor sextet
Puccini: La Boheme Quartet : Act III, Dunque è propio finita
Wagner: from Lohengrin: Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedra
2. American Portraits
Ethan Gurwitz - Coming Home Jere Hutcheson Composition Competition winner
Gershwin An American in Paris
Selections from the American Song Book with Carmen Bradford and Jazz Orchestra 2
Honey Suckle Rose
I Won’t Dance
I’ve Got A Crush On You
Fascinating Rhythm
Someone To Watch Over Me
Tisket A Tasket
Encore: Love Is Here To Stay
3. Collaboration with Jazz Orchestra 1
Concert Orchestra Concerto Competition winner
Collaboration with MSU Jazz Orchestra and Rodney Whitaker
Wynton Marsalis- “Two in Three”
Duke Ellington, arr. Wynton Marsalis- “A Tone Parallel to Harlem”
4. Collaboration with Symphony Orchestra
The winner of the 2026 Jere Hutcheson Composition Competition
Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”
Jere Hutcheson Composition Competition winner #2