My orchestra opened its season with Samuel Barber's "Toccata Festiva," for organ and orchestra. Wow. And I thought I had heard everything. It's @17 minutes, very virtuoso and it has some deliciously wicked chord progressions. (Moments of poetry too, of course--it's Barber.) Highly recommended. Other highlights of our season, (The Camellia Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Castillo, dir; based in Sacramento, CA; BTW), include: Saturday, February 8th: Judith Weir--"Musicians Wrestle Everywhere" Dominick Argento--"In Praise of Music" Vaughan Williams--"Serenade to Music" Kenneth Leighton--"Symphony #3" Sunday, March 30th: Michael Tippett--"The Shires Suite" Carol Barnett--"Sumervar" PDQ Bach--"The Seasonings" Silvestre Revueltas--"Sensemaya" Ottorino Respighi--"Roman Festivals" Yes, an adventurous program. In fact, we won ASCAP's 2002 award for adventurous programming--it makes counting all those silly mixed-meter measures before my orchestral piano plinks and plunks a little more gratifying. John Smyth