Concerts by the professional Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra (ORSO), the longest running symphony orchestra in Tennessee, and the avocational Oak Ridge Chorus are performed at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Oak Ridge High School (ORHS) Performing Arts Center (Oak Ridge Turnpike across from the Civic Center), except where noted.
The theme of this season is Tennessee Sounds Good to Me. The season features Tennessee performers, composers, and soloists, as well as music based on a short story by James Agee, a famous writer who grew up in Knoxville. Come celebrate Tennessee talent!
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Sat., Oct. 13, 2012 7:30 p.m. | Old Masters, New Talent: Joshua Davis ORHS Performing Arts Center |  |
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The Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra will perform two of classical music’s greatest hits alongside each other: Beethoven’s most memorable symphony and Rachmaninoff's imposingly difficult Third Piano Concerto. Fresh from winning the Joan Derryberry Memorial Concerto competition, Josh Davis, a teenager from Sparta, Tennessee, will light up the keyboard in a bravura display! | |
Sun., Nov. 11, 2012 3:00 p.m. | American Celebration Clayton Center for the Arts, Maryville College | |
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A world premiere, The Greatest Generation by Cookeville composer Greg Danner is a narrated piece featuring letters home from soldiers in World War II. In its first performance with the orchestra, the composition will be narrated by John Becker, news anchor for WBIR in Knoxville. The Oak Ridge Chorus will help sing Hymn to the Fallen and help us celebrate another American great, Robert Frost, through Frostiana by Randall Thompson. | |
Sat., Feb. 2, 2013 7:30 p.m. | Warming the Night First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge | |
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Malcolm Matthews, Knoxville native and 2012 American Guild of Organists National Young Artist finalist, returns to East Tennessee for a performance of Poulenc’s ecstatic concerto. The Concerto “mixes the composer’s irresistible French joie de vivre with passages of deeply affecting emotional content,” according to John Sunier in Audiophile Audition. | |
Sat., Mar. 9, 2013 7:30 p.m. | Spring in the Mountains ORHS Performing Arts Center | |
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In her concerto for mountain dulcimer titled Blackberry Winter, Nashville composer Conni Ellisor has fused the influences of her Tennessee roots into a unique classical style. McMinnville native Charles Faulkner Bryan was a rising star when his life was cut short, but not before his cantata on the Tennessee tale of the Bell Witch was premiered by Robert Shaw at Carnegie Hall in 1947. | |
Sat., Apr. 27, 2013 7:30 p.m. | Tribute to Tennessee ORHS Performing Arts Center | |
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Kingston native and composer Rachel DeVore Fogarty, who is the daughter of a nuclear engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, wrote the Spoon River Anthology selections for Nashville soprano Sabrina Laney Warren, who will perform these works plus the haunting memory piece by Samuel Barber inspired by the short story by Knoxville’s own James Agee. ORSO will end its symphony season with a blockbuster symphony by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. | |
Sat., May 4, 2013 7:30 p.m. | Hear Our Voices First Baptist Church of Oak Ridge | |
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The Oak Ridge Chorus brings a vocal finale to a great season. Dan Allcott will introduce Seth Maples, the new Oak Ridge Chorus Director. Seth will sing a solo as well as share the conductor duties with Dan. The Chorus will sing Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair, Franz Joseph's Schubert's To Music, Johannes Brahm's Four Gypsy Songs, Morten Lauridsen's Sure on this Shining Night, and Charles Bryan's selections from the opera Singin' Billy. | |
Michelle Powell
Executive Director
Phone: 865-483-5569
E-mail: office@orcma.org