This year's Made in America Festival teems with premieres and new pieces. The orchestral concerts include The Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpani and Orchestra by Philip Glass, John Harbison's Rubies, a take-off on Monk's "Ruby, My Dear," and Pierre Jalbert's In Aeternam (Thurs May 11, 7:30 pm). Conductor Gerard Schwarz leads the premiere of David Stock's Plenty of Horn and David Schiff's riff on the climactic moment of Stravinsky's Firebird, "Infernal" (Thurs May 18, 7:30 pm). The closing concert has more David Stock (Concierto Cubano), along with Lisa Bielawa's Hurry, the Elegy for Anne Frank by Lukas Foss, and works by a pair of Pulitzer Prize winners: Shulamit Ran and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (Sat May 20, 8 pm).

Other events include a free young-composers concert (Mon May 15, 8 pm) presented by Symphony composer-in-residence Samuel Jones. Schwarz lectures on "Contemporary American Composers and the Symphony Public" at the UW (Thurs May 17, 4:30 pm, Room 213 in the Music Building). And though not officially part of the festival, chamber group Quake essays John Zorn's game piece Cobra, Rzewski's Les Moutons de Panurge, and Ellington's "East St. Louis Toodle-oo" (Tues May 16, 7:30 pm).

The festival's concluding "Day of Music" (Sat May 20) has a tempting 11:00 a.m. kiddie concert (music of John Adams, Steve Reich, and John Williams's Star Wars theme). The rest of the day features a premiere by Bruce Ruddell (2 pm), the UW Wind Ensemble (3:45 pm), and George Crumb's classic Ancient Voices of Children performed by the chamber group Affinity (5 pm). Cornish College musicians join in at 6:00 p.m.; clarinetist Sean Osborn tackles a clarinet concerto by John Adams, the alternately elegiac and rollicking Gnarly Buttons. CHRISTOPHER DeLAURENTI

Made in America concludes Sat May 20, Benaroya Hall, 200 University St, 215-4747, $10–$60. Check www.seattlesymphony.org for details.