The U-M Life Sciences Orchestra's spring concert will feature the 150-member UMS Choral Union, and special guest solo vocalists, performing a stirring oratorio by English composer Edward Elgar.

Called The Dream of Gerontius, it's often performed in England but rarely in America, making this a unique opportunity to hear the work featured in the movie The Choral starring Ralph Fiennes.

The performance will begin at 7:30 p.m. with An American Overture by another English composer, Benjamin Britten.

LSO Music Director Nicholas Bromilow, who is English, will conduct the Elgar. Assistant conductor Michael Roest, who is American, will conduct the Britten. Both are graduate students in the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance's acclaimed orchestral conducting program. The UMS Choral Union is directed by Scott Hanoian.

The LSO’s musicians include faculty, staff, students, alumni and their family members from across U-M’s medical, health sciences, life sciences and engineering community. The LSO is part of Gifts of Art, which brings the world of art and music to Michigan Medicine, U-M’s academic medical center. The Choral Union is open to U-M students and adults from U-M and the community by audition, and is part of UMS.