Thomas Adès' Arcadiana evokes images of idyll and conveys "a here that is gone, or is going." Excelsa contrasts Adès' mystical work with Mozart's String Quartet No. 16 in E-flat Major, which is one of six quartets that the composer dedicated to Haydn.

The program concludes with Steve Reich's Different Trains, which uses recording samples of train sounds and speech to juxtapose the composer's memories of being a Jewish child in 1940s America, with the memories of child-survivors of the Holocaust.

Join UMRO on their final concert of the 2014-2015 season. The concert will feature Brahms's Second Symphony: a piece which, from its original premiere, has been seen as one of Brahms's great triumphs.

The concert will begin with two well-known master works from the operatic canon. Weber's Overture to Der Freischütz is a passionate work which recounts the story of the opera--including the Agathe's beautiful aria and the dark Wolf's Glen scene. This will be followed by a suite featuring the music from one of the most famous operas of all-time: Bizet's Carmen.

The complex interlocking rhythms of Balinese music on percussive instruments, the myriad expressions and the delicate motions of Balinese dance unite in the UMD Gamelan Saraswati.