LEWISTON — Music written for the recent inauguration of Bates College President A. Clayton Spencer will be featured at the next Bates College Orchestra performance on Saturday, Nov. 10.

The concert will open with the inauguration music composed by William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at Bates, followed by Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, and “Variations on a Theme by Haydn,” composed by Brahms. Hiroya Miura, associate professor of music, is the orchestra’s music director and conductor.

The performance will be at 7:30 p.m. in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.  Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information, call 786-6135 or email [email protected].

Matthews composed a setting for the Wallace Stevens poem “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm.” The piece was the musical centerpiece for the Oct. 26 installation of Spencer, who chose Stevens’ contemplative poem for her inaugural program.

Stevens’ text will be sung by the Bates College Choir. Matthews’ setting also includes readings from three cultures presented by Bates students in their native languages — Amna Ilyas, a senior from Faisalabad, Pakistan, reading in Urdu; Adnan Shami Shah, a sophomore from Kathmandu, Nepal, reading in Nepali; and So Hee Ki, a first-year student from Irvine, Calif., reading in Korean.

The Brahms work was considered a turning point in the composer’s confidence and skill in orchestral composition. It is a masterful set of independent variations on a theme that was attributed to Haydn in Brahms’ day, but is now believed to be the product of a student of Haydn’s.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, one of his most popular works, is known for its emotional spectrum, from dancelike ebullience to the melancholia of the second movement. The symphony is also celebrated for the composer’s brilliant transitions from key to key.