Missouri's finest student orchestra, the Philharmonic gives advanced instrumentalists the experience of playing a varied orchestra repertoire under professional conditions while still offering students a valid learning experience. In the past few years, orchestral literature ranging from the symphonies of Haydn to Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fir have been programmed, as have larger productions such as Requiemby Verdi and the opera The Magic Fluteby Mozart. Guest conductors have included Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Otto-Werner Mueller, Margaret Hillis, and Robert Shaw.

Recent Repertoire:

Beethoven
Symphony No. 1 in C Major
Symphony No. 2 in D Major
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat (Eroica)
Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor
Symphony No. 6 in F (Pastoral)
Symphony No. 8 in F Major

Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

Copland
Appalachian Spring

Debussy
The Afternoon of a Faun

Franck
Symphony in D Minor

Mahler
Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 1 in D Major
Symphony No. 4 in G Major

Mozart
The Magic Flute

Mussorgsky
Night on Bald Mountain
Pictures at an Exhibition

Rimsky-Korsakoff
Scheherazade

Shostokovitch
Symphony No. 5

Richard Strauss
Death and Transfiguration
Die Fledermaus

Stravinsky
Firebird Suite

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F inor
Symphony No. 5 in E Minor

Wagner
Prelude to Meistesinger
Prelude und Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde