Just as UMMA's Whistler exhibition highlights the influence of Europe on this American visual artist, the UM Percussion Ensemble, directed by Professor Joseph Gramley, presents works influenced by the adopted countries of several international composers, including a new commission from Kojiro Umezaki, raised in Japan but making his career in the United States, and two works by Argentine-born composers who now live and work abroad: Alejandro Vinao and Osvaldo Golijov.