Perfect for a warm summer evening, Fun and Fancies offers works that are graceful, playful, dreamy, lively and delightful. Susan Rotholz is the featured flutist in works by Gordon Jacobs and Camille Saint-Saëns. Jacobs, a 20th-century British composer, whose works range from symphonies to film scores, gives us, here, a simple, charming piece, Four Fancies for flute and strings.

Next, are two short contrasting works by the prolific and ever-popular French composer, Camille Saint-Saëns — his graceful Romance for flute and piano, Op. 37, and his lively Tarantelle for flute, clarinet and piano, Op. 6.

Rounding out the first half of the concert is the Beethoven Trio, Op. 11 for clarinet, cello and piano, performed by Carmelo Galante, Eliot Bailen and Stephen Manes. Composed by a 28- year-old Beethoven, this trio has a carefree spirit, in keeping with the early-19th century “entertainment” style.

The program closes with the Piano Quartet in A Minor, Op. 21, by Herbert Howells, performed by pianist Stephen Manes, joined by violinist Gerry Itzkoff, violist Laurie Kennedy and cellist Eliot Bailen. Herbert Howells was one of the composers in the early-20th century, whose elegant, expertly crafted, and often traditionalist works brought England to prominence in the musical world. Gordon Jacob and better known compatriots, Elgar and Vaughan Williams, were also in this category.

Howells’ Piano quartet is inspired by a hill, deep in his beloved English countryside, where he often walked. The hill is depicted first, as dawn unfolds into day, then, through the eyes of someone lying in a meadow watching the clouds drift by, and, finally, as a brisk spring wind makes the daffodils prance. Thus, this concert begins and ends with a comfortable bucolic English sensibility.

Tickets are $100 for the series of five concerts, and $25 for individual concerts. Tickets for anyone 21 and under are free. For more information, visit www.sebagomusicfestival.org or call 207-583-6747.