ORCMA Symphony and Chorus Concert Series for 2011-2012

• Symphony No. 6 in D Minor by Dvorak
• "Intermezzo" from Hary Janos by Kodaly
• In a Persian Market by Ketelbey

The breakthrough work by Czechoslovakian composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) features a fiery and brilliant Bohemian dance and relates Eastern European folk idioms to the symphony world. "Intermezzo" from Hary Janos by Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) will also be performed. The Oak Ridge Chorus will sing a portion of In a Persian Market by Albert Ketelbey (1875-1959), an English composer.

American Violin Soloist William Harvey, who teaches violin to children in Afghanistan, will speak on his experiences at a Friday evening reception, Nov. 18,  at 7 p.m. at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church.

• Concerto for Violin by Ranjbaran (with violin soloist William Harvey, photo at left)
• Coriolan Overture by Beethoven
• On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and Summer Night on the River by Delius
• In Paradisum by Dan Forrest (sung by Oak Ridge Chorus)

Violinist William Harvey will perform a concerto by Iranian Composer Behzad Ranjbaran (born in 1955) with the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra. The Oak Ridge Chorus will sing the Tennessee premier of Dan Forrest's new composition In Paradisum. ORSO will also perform Frederick Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and Summer Night on the River.

• Brundibar by Hans Krasa (1899-1944)

The Sound Company children’s choir of Oak Ridge will present this children’s opera originally performed by the children of Theresienstadt concentration camp in occupied Czechoslovakia in 1943. The thinly veiled plot concerns a bully eventually overthrown through song. Works by other composers will also be performed.

• Beatus Vir by Monteverdi (Oak Ridge Chorus with soloist Diane Pulte)
• Mass in G by Schubert
• Shimmer by Ruehr
• "Dido's Lament"(from chamber opera Dido and Aeneus) by Purcell
• "Furibondo" (from opera Partenope) by Handel
• "Lascia ch'io pianga" (from opera Rinaldo) by Handel

Mezzo-soprano soloist Diane Pulte and the Oak Ridge Chorus will sing Beatus Vir by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) and Mass in G by Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828), and the symphony orchestra will perform Shimmer by contemporary American composer Elena Ruehr (whose music is lauded by Gramophone magazine as "unspeakably gorgeous"), "Dido's Lament" from the chamber opera Dido and Aeneus by Henry Purcell (1659-1695), and two arias: "Furibondo" from the opera Partenope and "Lascia ch'io pianga" from Rinaldo, both by George Frederick Handel (1685-1759).

• Overture and Turkish March (from the opera Abduction from the Seraglio) by Mozart
• Domes by Ince
• Triple Concerto by Beethoven

W. A. Mozart's opera Abduction from the Seraglio reflected the Viennese fascination with, and shallow caricature of, Turkish culture and music of the military bands in service of the Ottoman empire. Balancing the music of this opera's "Overture" and "Turkish March" is a more contemporary synthesis of the East-West connection through a strings work called Domes by Tennessee resident and Turkish-American composer Kamran Ince. Formally called the Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano in C Major, Op. 56, Ludwig van Beethoven's Triple Concerto reflects a Polish influence in its third movement as Beethoven (1770-1827) looks east.

The ORSO performance will feature the Felici Piano Trio (piano, violin, cello). The trio members are natives of Belgium, Germany, and the United States. The trio will also perform the Chamber Concert on Sunday, Apr. 15, at 3 p.m.

• Requiem by Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) and other works

Oak Ridge Chorus and Cookeville MasterSingers, accompanied by organ and string quartet