Orchestra

Dr. Stephen Futrell, Director

The Elon University Orchestra began as early as 1916. Dr. Malvin Artley began directing the ensemble under the name Elon College Community Orchestra starting in 1962. The name was later changed to the Elon University Chamber Orchestra. Dr. David Bragg took over the ensemble as Director in 1985. In 2004, Dr. Thomas Erdmann began directing and the name was changed to Elon University Orchestra. Uplon Dr. Erdmann’s retirement in 2023, Dr. Stephen Futrell began directing the orchestra. The purpose of the orchestra however has remained since its inception; to provide students, community members and area professionals with an ensemble of high caliber that is dedicated to performing standard orchestra literature. If you have any questions, you may contact the Orchestra Director, Dr. Stephen Futrell at sfutrell@elon.edu.

F.A.Q.

 

Repertoire (Since Fall 2004)

 

Adler

Concertino

Arnaud

Bugler’s Dream from Charge!

Arutunian

Elegy (Wayne Bennett, trumpet)

Ayer and Grey

If You Were The Only Girl In The World

Bach, J.S.

Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Omri Shimron, piano)

Cantata No. 55 (Gerald Knight, tenor, Elon University Chorale)

Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor (Victoria Fischer Faw and Omri Shimron, piano)

Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Major (Shuko Petty, piano)

Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-flat Major (Victoria Fischer Faw, piano)

Bartok

Rumanian Folk Dances

Beethoven

Cavatina from String Quartet No. 13

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (Lise Keiter-Brotzman, piano)

Symphony No. 1 in C Major

Symphony No. 2 in D Major

Bishop

Symphony For Strings

Brahms

Hungarian Dance No. 5

Brahms/Turanchik

Geistliches Lied

Cavalli

Amor, Chi Ti Die L’ali from Clori’s Lament (Hallie Hogan, mezzo-soprano)

Coleman

Adieu

One-Hit Wonders Medley (Elon Electric Ensemble, Todd Coleman director)

To Remember

Corelli

Concerto Grosso in D Major, Op. 6 No. 4

Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6 No. 8

     Suite for String Orchestra

D’Albora

Kinley Row

Debussy

Petite Suite

Reverie

Dittersdorf

Piano Concerto in A Major (Gregory Thompson, piano)

Dvorak

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104 (Anne Selliti, cello)

Symphony No. 9 in E Minor “New World”

Ellington

Mood Indigo (Matt Buckmaster, trombone)

Gershwin

Lullaby (Full Orchestra Version)

Glass

Arioso No. 2 (Daniel Skidmore, violin)

Glazunov

Interludium in modo antico

Gluck

Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orpheus and Euridice

Gluck/Wagner

Overture for Iphigenia in Aulis

Gossec

Weihnachtssuite, Suite de Noels

Green

The Butcher’s Canticle Of The Earth (World Premiere) (Jon Metzger, percussion)

Grainger

Irish Tune From County Derry

Grieg

From Holberg’s Time, Suite In Olden Style

Three Pieces from Sigurd Jorsalfar

Vaaren (Hallie Coppedge Hogan, mezzo soprano)

Grofe

Mississippi Suite

Grimani

Sinfonia from Pallade e Marte

Gruber/Dobbins

Silent Night

Handel

Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 1

Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 3

Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 10

Dances from Almira

Lascia ch’io pianga from “Rinaldo”

Solomon, Introduction to Act III (Thomas Turanchik, oboe)

Handel/Turanchik

Concerto a due cori in B-flat

Hanson

Symphony No. 2 “Romantic”

Hattori

Concertino for Small Hands (Katherine Thomas, piano)

Haydn

Cello Concerto in C (Meaghan Skogan, cello)

March for the Royal Society of Musicians

Piano Concerto in D Major (Victoria Fischer Faw, piano)

Sinfonia from the Opera, La Fedelta Premiata

Symphony No. 1 in D Major

Symphony No. 2 in C Major

Symphony No. 6 in D Major

Symphony No. 31 in D Major “Mit dem Hornsignal”

Symphony No. 45 in F-Sharp Minor “Farewell”

Heyman and Green

I Cover The Waterfront (Jon Metzger, vibraphone, Kevin Pace, bass)

Hindemith

Five Pieces for String Orchestra

Hofeldt

The Gift

Holst

Brook Green Suite

Six Morris Dance Tunes, Set I

St. Paul’s Suite

Hovhaness

Armenian Rhapsopdy No. 3

Fantasy On Japanese Woodprints (Tony Sawyer, marimba)

Overture for Strings and Trombone (Matthew Buckmaster, trombone)

Psalm and Fugue

Symphony No. 21

Jenkins

Passacaglia

Palladio

Kern

They Didn’t Believe Me (Brad Linde, alto saxophone)

Kimber

La Folia

Krommer/Turanchik

Octet-Partita

Legrenzi

Sonate

Lully

Suite from Roland

Mahler

Piano Quartet (Full Orchestra Version) (Victoria Fischer Faw, piano)

Mantler

Light (Chip Newton, guitar)

Marimbavibe (Mariana Poole, marimba and vibraphone)

Mendelssohn

Nocturn from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor (Victoria Fischer Faw, piano)

Sinfonia No. 3 in E Minor

Sinfonia No. 10 in B Minor

Mercer

Laura (Brad Linde, alto saxophone)

Tangerine (Matt Buckmaster, trombone)

Metzger/Erdmann

Bossa Linda (Jon Metzger and Kevin Pace, vibraphone and bass)

Meyer

Millennium

Monteverdi

Overture from Orfeo

Moussorgsky

Hopak from The Fair at Sorochinsk

Mozart

Serenade in G Major “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”

Sleigh Ride (German Dance No. 3)

Soave sia il vento from Cosi fan tutti (Polly Cornelius, Hallie Hogan, Ken Lee, vocalists)

Sonata No. 14 in C (Mary Alice Bragg, organ)

Symphony No. 1 in E-flat Major

Symphony No. 4 in D Major

Symphony No. 4A in F Major

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major

Symphony No. 6 in F Major

Symphony No. 7 in D Major

Symphony No. 7A in G Major

Symphony No. 7B in B-flat Major

     Symphony No. 8 in D Major

Symphony No. 9 in C Major

Nelhybel

A Mighty Fortress

Music For Orchestra

Overture For Orchestra

Passacaglia

Slavonic Triptych

O’Neill and Linkel

Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24

Wizards In Winter (Techtronica, Clay Stevenson director)

Pace

As It Should Be (Jon Metzger, vibraphone, Kevin Pace, bass)

Page and Plant/Coleman

Kashmir (Elon Electric Ensemble, Todd Coleman director)

Page and Plant/Lucero

Stairway to Heaven (Elon Electric Ensemble, Todd Coleman director)

Parker

Yardbird Suite (Brad Linde and Kevin Pace, alto saxophone and bass)

Pärt

Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten

Perpetuum Mobile

Pedrollo

Concertino for Oboe and Strings (Thomas Turanchik, oboe)

Petty

Moon Shadows

Praetorius/Turanchik

Re Volte

Presser

Arctic Night

Chorale Fantasy

Purcell

Overture from the Ode ,Who Can From Joy Refrain

Dido And Aeneas (the complete opera)

Purcell/Erdmann

Two Songs (Susan L. Hahn, soprano)

Riley

Olson 111 (Elon University Camerata, Stephen Futrell director)

Rachmaninoff

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor (Ruskin Cooper, piano)

     Vocalise (Virginia Novine-Whittaker, soprano saxophone)

Rimsky-Korsakov

Procession Of The Nobles from Mlada

Saint-Saens

Bacchanale from Samson et Dalila

Salieri

Overture from La Scuola di Gelosi

Sammartini

Concertino in G

Scarlatti

Christmas Cantata (Polly Butler Cornelius, soprano)

Schubert

Serenade, D. 889

Shostakovich

Andante from String Quartet No. 10 (Full String Orchestra Version)

Satirical Dance from The Bolt

Sibelius

Andante Festivo

     Finlandia

Smith

Prelude on an Early American Folk Hymn

Stamitz

Symphony in B-flat Major

Symphony in E-flat Major

Strauss, Johann Jr.

Tick-Tack Polka from Die Fledermaus

Johann Jr, and Josef Strauss

Pizzacato Polka

Richard Strauss

Overture from Elektra

Stravinsky

Song Of The Volga Boatmen

Susato

Three Dances

Tchaikovsky

Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No. 1 in D Major

Ballet Suite from Swan Lake

Chant sans Paroles

Elegie

Waltz from Eugene Onegin

Traditional/McGinty

The Wexford Carol

Traditional/Turanchik

Ukranian Dance

Turanchik

Variations on a Russian Folk Song

Waiting (Orchestral Premiere)

Verdi

Overture to Nabucco

Villa-Lobos

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (Cora Palfy, soprano)

Vivaldi

Autumn and Winter from The Four Seasons (Daniel Skidmore, violin)

Spring and Summer from The Four Seasons (Katherine Thomas, violin)

Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor (Josh Goldstein and Meaghan Skogen, cello)

Volkmann

Concert Overture in C Major

     Musical Pictures, Op. 11 No. 1/2/3

Warlock/Heseltine

Capriol Suite

Wieniawski

Légende