Pre-concert lecture at 7:15pm in the Lower Lobby. Carmen Pelton will replace Stanford Olsen in the Britten. The USO and Kenneth Kiesler celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great British composer, Benjamin Britten, with a gala program and illustrious faculty guest artists: pianist Logan Skelton, and tenor Stanford Olsen. The program includes dramatic, colorful and poignant music from Peter Grimes, one of the greatest operas of the 20th Century. The concert will feature the rarely heard Piano Concerto, and Les Illuminations, Britten\&##39;s stunning strings-only setting of Rimbaud poetry and the line "I alone have the key to this savage parade," seeming to offer the composer\&##39;s perspective that only artists can make sense of life. PROGRAM: Britten – Passacaglia from Peter Grimes; Britten – Concerto for Piano, Logan Skelton, piano; Britten – Les Illuminations, Stanford Olsen, tenor; Britten – Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes