The University Symphony Orchestra presents an evening of great music from the British Isles, conducted by Kenneth Kiesler, the orchestra's Music Director.Commissioned by the Boston Pops in 1985, An Orkney Wedding Sunrise, by British composer Peter Maxwell Davies, depicts the all-night celebration after a wedding on the Island of Orkney. The sunrise is depicted by the striking orchestral innovation: a bagpipe soloist. Tenor Kyle Knapp, winner of the 2010 Concerto Competition, is the soloist in Britten's affecting songs based on the beautiful and enigmatic poems by Rimbaud, Les Illuminations. The concert concludes with tributes and memories. Elgar dedicated each brilliant, tuneful, and touching movement of his Enigma Variations to "my friends pictured within," and one of their dogs! PROGRAM: Davies - An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise; Britten - Les Illuminations, Kyle Knapp (tenor); Elgar - Enigma VariationsPre-concert lecture at 7:15 pm.