URSO & URCO Meliora Weekend Prism Concert, Friday, September 27, 2024 Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F, Op. 102 with April Wang (Mvt. III) Frank Joe Haydn: Symphony No. 60 in C (selections) URSO December 6, 2024 Hector Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture Christopher Theofanidis: Rainbow Body Franz Liszt: Les Preludes [Hidden Encore - H. C. Lumbye: Champagne Galop] URCO December 7, 2024 Charles Gounod: Petite Symphonie Anna Clyne: Within Her Arms Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 60 URSO February 28, 2025 Sibelius: Finlandia Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2 in F, Op. 102 April Wang, piano - UR Orchestras Concerto Winner Maria Teresa Prieto: Sinfonia Breve URCO March 1, 2025 UR Choral Collaboration Featured Concerto Winner from Fall, 2024 URSO Friday, April 11, 2025 Ottorino Respighi: The Pines of Rome Charlie Parker: Bird with Strings URCO Saturday, April 5, 2025 W. A. Mozart: Concerto for Clarinet Josh Daniels, UR Orchestras Concerto Winner Leanna Primiani: TBD URSO & URCO Combined Orchestras Friday, May 2, 2025 Tchaikovsky: Overture 1812 Eastman Quadrangle (weather permitting) Strong Auditorium (rain venue) Post Concert Season Dinner

The concert attire for both orchestras is black pants or black floor-length skirt and any solid color shirt or blouse OTHER than black or white. The object is to both flood the stage with colour and not look like a large group of head waiters.

First off, do your UTMOST NEVER to miss a rehearsal. That's where the bulk of our work is done and the community you build depends upon you. If you must be absent from a rehearsal, fill out this google form for any absence three weeks before the rehearsal takes place.

For students registered for the course, your grade is participation dependent. See the course syllabus for details.

Seating rotates every concert and sometimes within specific repertoire on the same concert. It is never a strict hierarchy. Members of different ensemble, repertoire, and previous experience are placed throughout the sections to strength both the section and the players within it.

You do not. UR students may register for the appropriate 1-credit course (MUSC153 for URSO, MUSC154 for URCO), but may perform with the groups via audition and invitation.

The course is effort and attendance-based.

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The University of Rochester Symphony Orchestra (URSO) is a large collegiate/civic ensemble of around ninety to one hundred students, faculty, and community members playing large scale symphonic repertoire. Recent concerts have included Mahler, Shostakovich, and Dvorak symphonies, significant contemporary works by Jennifer Higdon, Christopher Theofanidis, and Jonthan Bailey Holland, as well as American masters David Diamond and Aaron Copland. The University of Rochester Chamber Orchestra (URCO) is made up of closer to fifty members, largely students, and performs music of wide ranging repertoire and ensemble structure. Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Beethoven symphonies have been recent program items, as has Stravinsky and Thea Musgrave. Due to its smaller size, URCO has been also able to travel and collaborate with other organizations on campus, in the Rochester community, and around the globe. URCO is the ensemble that collaborations annually with the University choirs.

The Symphony Orchestra rehearses Tuesdays from 7:30-10:00pm. The Chamber Orchestra rehearses Mondays from 4:50-6:00pm and Wednesdays from 4:50-7:00pm. Rehearsals take place in Upper Strong Auditorium.

You can. And, depending upon repertoire, we will often will trade personnel between the ensembles as parts, forces, and concerts warrant.

Auditions occur at the start of each Fall semester. If you are interested in joining the orchestras at another time, please reach out to the music director.