Characterized by its stylistic freedom and juxtaposition of tonal and atonal musical language, featured composer Lera Auerbach's music has been praised for being 'so skillfully constructed and so rich in imaginative beauty' (San Francisco Chronicle). New Century premieres Auerbach's Sinfonia for Strings alongside Wagner's romantic Siegfried Idyll, a tribute to the bicentennial of Wagner's birth, and Haydn's theatrical, touching 'Farewell' Symphony.Open Rehearsal on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 10am the SF Conservatory. Performances on Thursday, May 23 at 8pm at the First Congregational Church in Berkeley; Friday, May 24 at 8pm at the First United Methodist Church in Palo Alto; Saturday, May 25 at 8pm at the SF Conservatory; and Sunday, May 26 at 5pm at the Osher Marin JCC.