A weekend of fanciful dreams and fantastical escapades awaits when the musical narration of Richard Strauss' Don Quixote takes the stage with BPO principal Roman Mekinulov portraying the role of the knight errant. The intoxicating romance of Spain continues with Ravel's lush Rapsodie espagnole.

Internationally-acclaimed violinist and Sphinx Competition laureate Melissa White was recently appointed Professor of Music at UB. She performs the sweeping Violin Concerto No. 2 of Florence Price in a program also featuring two rarely performed works; Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Beethoven and Mendelssohn's "Reformation."

Copland's popular Billy the Kid Suite complements Schubert's sublime and familiar "Unfinished" Symphony No. 8. and Wagner's glorious operatic prelude to Die Meistersinger. Conductor Gerard Schwarz welcomes his son, Julian, who takes on the tremendous Cello Concerto by Arthur Foote.