Performance History
The Memphis Symphony Chorus has performed many Masterworks and Pops concerts in its 45+ year history including such major works as Berlioz Requiem, J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Handel’s Messiah, Mahler’s Second Symphony, Mahler’s Third Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem, Missa Solemnis, Orff’s Carmina Burana and Verdi’s Requiem.
2025
May 4 Christopher Tin - The Drop That Contained The Sea feat. White Station and St. George’s Choirs
Mar. 4 Memphis Symphony Chorus 60th Anniversary Celebration
2024
Dec. 20-21 The Magic of Memphis Holiday Pops
Dec. 3, 4, 6 Handel’s Messiah
Oct. 19 Amadeus: The Music and the Myth (Mozart Requiem)
Feb. 11 Earnestine Rodgers-Robinson The Harriet Tubman Story (World Premiere)
Apr. 12 and 14 Haydn The Creation
May 4 May the 4th Be With You - The Music of Star Wars
2023
Apr. 22-23 Johannes Brahms German Requiem
Oct. 28-29 Carl Orff Carmina Burana
Dec. 2-3 The Magic of Memphis Holiday Pops
Dec. 19-21 Handel’s Messiah
2022
Dec. 9-10 Magic of Memphis
Oct. 30 Dan Forrest - A Requiem for the Living
May 5-7 Considering Matthew Shepard
Mar. 25-27 Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (with Univ. of Mississippi Choirs)
2021
Dec 21-23 Handel’s Messiah
Dec. 11-12 The Magic of Memphis Holiday Spectacular
Nov. 14 Antonin Dvorak Mass in D Major
2019
May 4 The Music of Star Wars
Mar. 18 “So Shall We Rejoice” A Choral Celebration of Dr. Lawrence Edwards
2018
Dec. 22-23 Magic of Memphis Holiday Spectacular
Dec. 18-19 Handel’s Messiah
Nov. 10-11 Copland Fanfare for the Common Man
May 5-6 Berlioz Te Deum
Apr. 2 MLK 50th Anniversary
Mar. 3-4 Bernstein Chichester Psalms & Kaddish
2017
Dec. 19-20 Handel's Messiah
Dec. 1-3 Magic of Memphis Holiday Spectacular
Apr. 29 A Salute to John Williams
Feb. 28 An A Capella Celebration
2016
Dec. 4 Magic of Memphis Holiday Spectacular
Nov. 12-13 Forrest, In Paradisium; Vaughn Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem
May 14-15 Borodin Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
Apr. 2-3 Mozart Requiem
Feb. 5 50th Anniversary Concert
2015
Dec. 11-12 Home for the Holidays
Nov. 7-8 Holst Planets
Oct. 11 Handel Coronation Anthems
May 2-3 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Mar. 21-22 Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Mar. 6 Handel Coronation Anthems
Feb. 28 - Mar. 1 Rachmaninoff Solemn Vespers No. 2 Blagoslovi Duche Moya
2014
Dec. 20 Home for the Holidays
Nov. 1 Magnificat Day, Memphis, TN
Feb. 22-23 Brahms - A German Requiem
2013
Oct. 26-27 Brahms Schicksalslied & Tippett 5 Spirituals from a Child of Our Time
Dec. 21 Home for the Holidays
May 18-19 Porgy and Bess
Mar. 22 If Bach Were a BeeKeeper
Feb. 22-23, 26 Holst The Planets
2012
Dec. 8 Home for the Holidays
May 19-20 Orff's Carmina Burana
Apr. 14 Mahler 2nd Symphony
2011
Dec. 17 Home for the Holidays
Apr. 30 Beethoven "Ode to Joy"
Mar. 12-13 DeBussy Nocturnes
2010
Dec. 4 Home for the Holidays
Oct. 16 - 17 World Premiere Commission
Apr. 10-11 Mozart, "Requiem"
2009
Dec. 5 Home for the Holidays
Oct. 3 Craig Brewer, A Filmmaker's Playlist
April 18 Haydn, "The Creation"
2008
Dec. 6 Home for the Holidays
Dec. 13 Handel, "Messiah" (Orphanos benefit)
Apr. 13 Berlioz, "Requiem"
2007
Dec. 14-16 Handel, "Messiah" (Orphanos benefit)
May 5 Mahler, Symphony No. 3 in D Minor
Apr. 14 Mendelssohn, “Elijah” Oratorio, Opus 70
2006
Dec. 2 Fox 13 TV (Memphis)
Dec. 1 Holiday Pops concert- Matt Catingub arrangements
Oct. 21 John Williams Pops concert (Medley)
Oct. 19 Handel, “Messiah” (Orphanos benefit)
Apr. 8-9 Brahms, “Ein Deutsches Requiem”, Opus 45
2005
Dec. 9 Vivaldi, “Gloria”
Nov. 13 MSC 40th Anniversary Concert- Durufle “Requiem” and additional songs
Oct. 2 Beethoven, Symphony No. 9- Opus 125 (Hurricane Katrina musician benefit)
Apr. 30 - May 1 Orff, “Carmina Burana” (cantiones profanae)
Feb. 19 Martin Luther King tribute- Gasser/Jones Jr. “Black Suit Blues” premiere + medley
2004
Dec. 3-5 “Home for the Holidays” Christmas Pops concert (Medley)--Fox 13 TV
May 1 Verdi, “Requiem”
Jan. 17 Martin Luther King tribute (Medley)
2003
Dec. 5-6 “Home for the Holidays” Christmas Pops concert
Oct. 31 - Nov. 1 Halloween Pops Concert (Medley)
Sep. 20 Mahler, Symphony No. 2- “Resurrection”
May 3 Vaughan Williams, “Serenade to Music” & Mendelssohn, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Apr. 5 Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Opus 125, “Choral”
2002
Dec. 6-7 “Home for the Holidays” Christmas Pops concert
Sep. 11 Mozart, “Requiem” K. 626 (“Rolling Requiem” September 11th Memorial Concert)
Apr. 12-13 Beethoven, “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage”, Opus 112 & Brahms: “Schicksalied”, Opus 54 “Nanie”, Opus 82
Mar 24 Handel, “Messiah” (complete oratorio)
Feb. 15 Martin Luther King Tribute (Medley)
2001
Dec. 7-8 “Home for the Holidays” Christmas Pops concert (Friday Dyersburg/Saturday TV)
Mar. 30-31 Bernstein, “Chichester Psalms” & Haydn, Mass in C Minor, “Mass in Time of War”
Mar. 17 Orff, “Carmina Burana” (Birmingham runout)
Jan. 13 Martin Luther King tribute (Medley)
2000
Dec. 9-10 “Home for the Holidays” Christmas Pops concert
Oct. 7 Gershwin/Bennett, “Porgy and Bess”
Apr. 14-15 J. S. Bach, “Mass in B Minor”, BWV 232
1999
Dec. 10-12 “Home for the Holidays” Christmas Pops concert (Medley)
Jan. 17 Martin Luther King tribute (Medley)
1998
Dec. 18-19 “Home for the Holidays” Christmas Pops concert
Oct. 31 arr. Danner, “Choral Collage” (Pops)
Feb. 21 Mozart, “Requiem” K. 626
Apr. 3-4 Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Opus 125, “Choral”
1997
Dec. 12-14 “Home for the Holidays” Christmas Pops concert (Medley)
Sep. 12-14 Prokofiev, “Alexander Nevsky”, Opus 78
Apr. 4-6 Brahms, “Ein Deutsches Requiem”, Opus 45
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