Lucy Arner, an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, leads a 13-piece chamber ensemble.
A six-piece chamber ensemble and chorus will be conducted by Michael Adelson.
Three "Songs for Children" are accompanied by a six-piece chamber ensemble.
It was a great idea to begin with Cowell's five-minute "Polyphonica," scored for a 16-piece chamber ensemble.
Intended for a 14-piece chamber orchestra (including piano), the piece was commissioned by an Austrian new-music group, Klangforum Wien.
Vladislav Bulakhov and his young 16-piece chamber orchestra were a big hit when they performed at the prestigious Moscow Conservatory this month.
At 7, Piaclava, a three-piece chamber ensemble, will perform, and at about 7 30, Taiko Masala, a four-drum ensemble with a Japanese bamboo flute, will play.
The company's music director, Neal Goren, drew a buoyant performance from the 25-piece chamber orchestra, though next time he should rent a harpsichord that stays in tune.
There was also the premiere of a major 12-minute work for tenor (here the fine young singer Nicholas Phan) and 19-piece chamber ensemble, "A Sunbeam's Architecture," a song cycle with settings of six poems by E. E. Cummings.
The two headliners will be backed up by the Klezmer Conservatory Band, the klezmer musician Hankus Netsky and an 18-piece chamber orchestra, which will include members of the Perlman camp, who will be conducted by Russell Ger.
Mr. Little's score, written for a nine-piece chamber ensemble (performed by Newspeak under the skilled conductor Alan Pierson) draws upon elements of opera, musical theater and rock-infused contemporary concert music.
