Friends of Music Concerts continues its 46th concert season with a concert featuring two major works performed by the Xylem Collective with Bob Herman, conductor. The concert will be held Sunday, April 19, 2026, at Eliot UU Chapel in Kirkwood, Mo. This free concert begins at 3:00 p.m. and will also be streamed live at: https://youtube.com/live/1PLfwKuwzVc

The program will open with Poem for Flute and Orchestra, A.93, by American composer Charles Griffes, featuring Andrea Clarke, flute. It will conclude with Johannes Brahms’s Serenade No. 1, Op. 11.