Repertoire includes many the very best glee club favorites as well as Barbershop and Pop music. Membership is open to all men on campus. In 1996 the String Ensemble expand to become a symphony orchestra, now numbering approximately 80 players. The GTO performs everything from challenging symphonic literature to innovative popular arrangements, often featuring student soloists. Student experience levels vary, but the group enjoys a high standard of performance.
Auditions are open to new membership each quarter.
The Symphonic Winds is a select ensemble that provides an opportunity for students to be challenged musically and is for the most accomplished instrumentalists. The ensemble is offered fall, winter, and spring quarters and is conducted by Andrea Strauss. This performing ensemble focuses on traditional wind ensemble literature as well as transcriptions and contemporary band compositions. The ensemble performs a minimum of three concerts annually at the Robert Ferst Theatre and has performed such works as Lord of the Rings, Blue Shades, To Tame the Perilous Skies, Lincolnshire Posy, Praise Jerusalem, Capriccio Espagnol, La Fiesta Mexicana , and Ghost Train . The group has also performed for the 1995 Georgia Music Educator's Association in Savannah, featuring renown trumpet soloist, Allen Vizzutti.