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Stetson University Symphony Orchestra comprises
some 70-75 students and plays symphony concerts on and off-campus, a concerto
competition winners concert, an opera each year as well as choral concerts
from time to time. Recent concert repertoire has included symphonies by
Beethoven (1&5), Brahms (1,2&3), Dvorak (6&7),Franck, Haydn
(92), Mozart (39), Schubert (8), Schumann (3) and Shostakovich (1&9);
overtures by Beethoven, George Chadwick, Copland, Mozart, Nicolai, Rossini,
Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Wagner; other works by various composers
including Bach, Barber, Bernstein, Britten, Chabrier, Debussy, Elgar, Greig,
Khachaturian, Mussorgsky, Poulenc, Ravel and Sibelius.
Operas include La Clemenza di Tito, Die
Fledermaus, Hansel and Gretel, L’Italiana in Algeri, The
Merry Wives of Windsor and La Rondine (Puccini).
The orchestra has been invited on a number of
occasions to play for the Orlando Opera and several of the orchestral players
play with the Jacksonville and Orlando Symphony Orchestras as well as other
orchestras in the state.
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