D. Thomas Toner and Nicola Cannizzaro (percussion) and David Feurzeig, Paul Orgel, and Sylvia Parker (piano) are the featured musicians performing on the Lane Series season opener on Saturday, Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m. at the UVM Recital Hall.

The concert is titled “An Evening of Mozart, Bartók, and Crumb” and is the brainchild of UVM Department of Music & Dance Chair Tom Toner, faculty member Sylvia Parker, and Lane Director Natalie Neuert. Professor Parker, a Bartók specialist (she first grew attached to him after discovering the composer had spent a summer idyll at a property next door to her home in Riverton, Vermont), teaches a seminar every other fall titled Bela Bartók: Music and Man, and she wanted to be able to present one of his larger works on the Recital Hall stage as a component to her course.

The repertoire of choice is his Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, which was revolutionary in terms of its unique instrumentation. At the time of its premiere in 1938, the sonata was hailed as his most powerful and valuable work yet. Paired on the Lane concert with this significant work is George Crumb’s Makrokosmos III (Music for a Summer Evening), which was written specifically as a companion piece and homage to the Bartók sonata. Mozart’s Andante and Variations in G, KV 501 for piano four-hands will round out the program.

“An Evening of Mozart, Bartók, and Crumb” is sponsored by the Lane Series Piano Consortium.

For tickets or for more information on the 2016/2017 season, visit the Lane Series website, www.uvm.edu/laneseries.