FARMINGTON — The UMF Orchestra, under the direction of Trond Saeverud, will celebrate spring with a program of romantic music on Saturday, April 30, at Nordica Auditorium.

The program will include a span of music from the time 19-year-old Schubert wrote his Third Symphony, as Napoleon lost the Battle at Waterloo, until Ralph Vaughan Willams’ Tuba Concerto from 1954, the year Marilyn Monroe married Joe DiMaggio.

According to Saeverud, the concert will include four very different pieces that demonstrate many faces and moods of romantic music. Faure’s charming “Fantaisie” for flute and orchestra, for example, flows freely in an improvisatory manner; Schubert’s Third Symphony features Mozartean grace and wit; and the second movement of William’s Tuba Concerto makes that instrument sing with warmth and natural flow.

The program will conclude with Sibelius’ “En Saga,” an intensely personal account of “Sturm und Drang,” offering powerful outbursts of emotion that alternate with a sense of relentless forward motion, according to Saeverud.

Soloists,  members of the UMF Orchestra,  are Emily Savadge on flute and Ron Small on tuba.

Saeverud has performed as violin soloist with major orchestras in Europe and the United States, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Lincoln Center in New York City. He is concertmaster of the Bangor Symphony, first violin in the Nor’easter String Quartet, artistic director of the Harald Saeverud Chamber Music Program, and founder and conductor of the new Passamaquoddy Bay Symphony Orchestra with musicians from Canada and the United States.

The concert will begin at 3 p.m. in the auditorium in Merrill Hall.

Ttickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and free for children under 12. They will be available at the door. For more information, call 778-7072 or email [email protected].