"Concertino" introduces three works from Chicago composer Doug Lofstrom. His virtuosic Concertinos for oboe (2006), and for harp (2009), were part of a commission initiated by conductor Kirk Muspratt and the New Philharmonic Orchestra, and premiered at DuPage University in 2007 and 2009. This version of "The Plumed Serpent" was recorded in 1982 with some of Chicago's finest classical and jazz performers. It was composed for brass with doubling woodwinds and strings, and soloists integrated in a jazz quintet. •"An aesthetic risk-taker, Lofstrom straddles too many categories to be easily classified." - Chicago Reader