FARMINGTON — The University of Maine at Farmington Community Orchestra is putting out a call for new members.

Conducted by Philip Carlsen, professor of music, and consisting of students, community members and semi-professional musicians, the orchestra plays music from the standard orchestral repertoire, as well as more esoteric fare.

Last April, for example, the “traditional” part of the concert consisted of a Haydn symphony, the “Children’s Corner Suite” by Debussy and Aaron Copland’s “Quiet City” for trumpet, English horn and strings.

But, on the more adventurous side, the concert also included the premiere of a collage piece that Carlsen had created for the orchestra and pianist Steven Pane, combining snippets of pieces by Beethoven, Haydn, Berlioz, Stravinsky and others in a kind of reflection and commentary on Beethoven’s last piano sonata.

Coming up this fall, among other things, the orchestra will perform with the UMF Community Chorus and Steven Pane in Beethoven’s “Choral Fantasy.”

The orchestra rehearses Wednesdays from 7 to 9:30 p.m. on the recently expanded stage of UMF’s historic Nordica Auditorium.

For further information, contact Philip Carlsen at [email protected] or show up with instrument in hand at the first rehearsal on Sept. 3.

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