UC Davis Symphony Orchestra and University Chorus Jeffrey Thomas, conducting, with Arianna Zukerman, soprano; Judith Malafronte, mezzo-soprano; Steven Tharp, tenor; David Arnold, baritone, and alumni chorus. Verdi: Requiem.

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is one of the most popular pieces of the classical music repertoire. Here the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, the University Chorus and Alumni Chorus, and the Pacific Boychoir perform at the Mondavi Center at UC Davis.

Join Mark O'Connor, Paul Schoenfield and George Tsontakis - three outstanding American composers whose works were featured in SummerFest 2009 - as they exchange ideas in a roundtable discussion moderated by composer and conductor Russell Steinberg.

UC San Diego Jazz Camp presents bassist Mark Dresser, pianist Diane Moser and percussionist Gerry Hemingway in concert. The stellar trio performs a program of original compositions.

SummerFest 2010 concludes with a program dedicated to two titans of 19th-century music. Beethoven is represented by his Piano Trios in D major and E flat major, and a stellar ensemble performs Tchaikovsky's beloved String Sextet for Strings in D minor, "Souvenir de Florence,"

Singer and songwriter Chris Hillman, formerly of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, reflects on his craft with literature professor Karl Martin and then joins guitarist Herb Pedersen for a live concert as part of the 2011 Writer's Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University.

Created by UCSD Music faculty member Shlomo Dubnov, Kamza and Bar Kamza tells the Talmudic story of the fall of Jerusalem in a multimedia hyper-cinema experience that includes performance, video, online chatting, hypertext and live debate.

Four of LA's leading and most creative youth ensembles come together in a rare performance of spiritual music and dance traditions from around the world.

Deep in the Pacific, the island nations of Kiribati, Tokelau, and Tuvalu are among the first to feel the direct affects of climate change as they submerge under rising sea levels. In a unique exchange of ideas and artistic expression, islanders, climate change experts, and political leaders explore the very real threats to islands across the South Pacific, the "canaries in the coal mine" of climate change.