Three commissioned works have been premiered:

American Essay
by Nancy Van de Vate

Episodes – Jesus Christ
by David Van Vactor, Composer Laureate of Tennessee

The Fields of Heaven
by Daniel Gawthrop,
in honor of the KCS’ 50th Anniversary

Repertoire

Bach Christmas Oratorio
Cantata No. 140, Sleepers! Wake!
Cantata No. 4, Christ Lay in Death's Dark Prison
Magnificat
B Minor Mass
Respighi Laud to the Nativity
Thompson The Peaceable Kingdom
Vaughn Williams Hodie
Mass in G Minor
Serenade to Music
Faure Requiem
Durufle Requiem
Mozart Requiem Mass in D Minor
Handel Messiah
Utrecht Jubilate
Dvorak Te Deum
Haydn Creation
Lord Nelson Mass
Beethoven Mass in C Major
Serenade to Music
Mendelssohn Elijah
St. Paul
Bernstein Chichester Psalms

Past appearances with the Knoxville Symphony have included the following performances:

  • Orff’s Carmina Burana
  • Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
  • Brahms's Requiem
  • Verdi’s Requiem
  • Kodaly’s Psalms Hungaricus
  • Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
  • Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 “The Symphony of a Thousand”
  • Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast
  • The annual Clayton Holiday Concerts in December
  • Other holidays and special occasions such as the Independence Day concert

Special performances have featured concerts for:

  • Carnegie Hall Performance of Verdi Requiem with Mass Chorus
  • East Tennessee Baptist Hospital 25th Anniversary
  • American Guild of Organist Conventions
  • American Choral Directors Association Convention
  • St. Mary’s Hospital 50th Anniversary Sacred Music Festival
  • Two performances at the 1982 World’s Fair
  • 1986 Southern Division Conference of American Choral Directors Association
  • Aida by Giuseppe Verdi, with the Knoxville Opera Company

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