Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

Co-presented with KMFA 89.5 as part of the Declaration Project celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States 

Lara Downes, piano 

Donnie Ray Albert, baritone

Aaron Copland 

Lincoln Portrait 

Valerie Coleman 

Life (TX premiere) 

Arturo O’Farrill 

Liberty (TX premiere) 

Christopher Tin 

The Pursuit of Happiness (TX premiere)

Jerry F. Junkin, conductor

Hila Plitmann, soprano

Stephen Montague 
Introit St John’s (U.S. premiere) 

Morton Lauridsen, tr. Reynolds 
O Magnum Mysterium 
 
Sam Lipman 
The World Will Open (world premiere) 

Donald Grantham 
All You Who Sleep Tonight 

Benjamin Horne 
Spiritual Symphony 

Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

Bion Tsang, cello

Adam Schoenberg 

Go 

Gara Garayev 

Layla and Majnun 

Antonín Dvořák 

Cello Concerto, Op. 104

Jerry F. Junkin, conductor

The Mariachi Paredes de Tejastitlán 

Jimmy Santos-Rivera, guest conductor 

Arturo Márquez, arr. Nickel 

Danzon No. 2 

H. Owen Reed 

La Fiesta Mexicana 

Arturo Márquez 

Symphony no. 5, Sinfonía Nómada (consortium premiere)

J.D. Burnett, conductor

Page Stephens, mezzo soprano

John Corigliano 

Fern Hill 

Omar Thomas 

Shenandoah 

Inocente Carreño  

Pregúntale a ese mar 

Gerald Custer 

Innisfree 

Paul John Rudoi 

As One Sky 

Jean Sibelius, arr. Morgan 

This is My Song (Finlandia) 

Johannes Brahms 

An die Heimat, Op. 64

Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 

Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, Pathétique

Jerry F. Junkin, conductor

Michael Lebrias & Alec Rodriguez, guest conductors 

John Williams 

Liberty Fanfare 

HyeKyung Lee 

A-ri-A-rang (premiere performance for band) 

Lucio San Pedro 

Lahing Kayumanggi (U.S. premiere) 

Zhou Tian 

Petals of Fire 

Adam Schoenberg 

Symphony No. 2, Migration 

Featuring 
Chamber Orchestra 
Concert Chorale 
University Chorus 

Longhorn Singers 
Bereket Middle Eastern Ensemble 
Soha Quartet 
Horn Choir 
Bassoon Ensemble 
Musical Theatre Workshop 
Jazz Combos 
Gregory Eaton, organ 

Ring in the season with the Butler School’s annual Holiday Concert with music for everyone to enjoy. You’ll hear traditional holiday carols and winter favorites across many genres, including excerpts from Bach’s Magnificat, jazz standards like “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” and Hanukkah songs from Sephardic and Mizrahi Jewish traditions. 

Jerry F. Junkin, conductor

Blake Hordé & Cody Ray, guest conductors 

Ralph Vaughan Williams 

English Folk Song Suite 

Derrick Skye, tr. Ray 

Prisms, Cycles, Leaps 

David Maslanka 

Symphony No. 2

Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

Sergei Rachmaninoff 

Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Jerry F. Junkin, conductor

Emily Warren, guest conductor 

Epoch Percussion Quartet

Maurice Ravel, tr. Warren 

Le tombeau de Couperin 

Christopher Cerrone 

Meander, Spiral, Explode 

Viet Cuong 

Deep Down: Symphony No. 1

Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

Emil Khudyev, clarinet 

Leah Crocetto, soprano

Chase McCay 

Svatba! from Songs of Bulgaria (world premiere of orchestral version) 

George Gershwin, arr. Mangani 

Blues from An American in Paris 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, arr. Rubtsov 

Lensky's aria “Kuda, kuda, vi udalilis” from Eugene Onegin 

Béla Kovács 

Shalom Aleichem, rov Feidman! 

Isaak Dunayevsky 

Overture to The Children of Captain Grant 

Dmitri Shostakovich 

Waltz No. 2 from Suite for Variety Orchestra 

Pietro Mascagni 

Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana 

John Scott 

Selections from Lionheart Suite 

Ennio Morricone 

Suite from Once Upon a Time in America 

John Williams 

Flying Theme from E.T. 

Jerry F. Junkin, conductor

Michael Sachs, trumpet

James Stephenson 

You have reached the city limits 

Wynton Marsalis 

Concerto for Trumpet 

Modest Mussorgsky, arr. Lavender 

Pictures at an Exhibition

J.D. Burnett, conductor

Jake Runestad 

Why the Caged Bird Sings 

Giovanni Palestrina 

Super flumina Babylonis 

Moses Hogan 

Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel 

Alex Berko 

Exodus 

Alberto Grau 

Kasar mie la gaji 

Kim André Arnesen 

Even when He is silent 

Adolphus Hailstork 

Go Down, Moses

Farkhad Khudyev, conductor

Winning soloists and repertoire will be announced later in the season after competition finals take place.