[1] The following years saw growth for the orchestra as former undergraduate and then-graduate student John Mauceri '67 replaced Browne as conductor in the fall of 1968.
The membership of today's Yale Symphony Orchestra is composed primarily of undergraduates, who audition in early September and are "tapped," a scaled-down version of the selection of a cappella groups, shortly thereafter.
Yale Symphony Orchestra rehearsals take place twice a week for two and a half hours in Woolsey Hall.
The orchestra performs five regular concerts per season, with programming varying from the traditional (Beethoven's Symphony no.
The orchestra spends the months before Halloween shooting and editing a silent film, which they screen at 11:59 p.m. on October 31 in Woolsey Hall.