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The SDSU Civic Symphony will present its first program of the spring semester, titled “Four Centuries of Symphony.” The concert is scheduled for 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 22, and will be held in the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center.

The program will take the listener on a harmonic journey beginning with music from the earliest days of the European baroque, through the age of the modern Broadway musical.

Conducted by David Reynolds, director of the SDSU School of Performing Arts, the concert opens with Girolamo Frescobaldi’s “Toccata” adapted from the original organ masterwork by Hans Kindler. Mozart’s beloved “Serenade in G Major,” known as “Eine kleine Nachtmusik,” concludes the first half.

The orchestra will then continue with Mendelssohn’s celebrated “Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave)” followed by musical highlights from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I.” The concert concludes with “A Fifth of Beethoven,” Walter Murphy’s disco-era adaptation of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.

Featured soloist for the concert is tenor Steiger Manson, winner of SDSU’s Concerto/Aria Competition. Manson will perform Mozart’s famous aria “Un’aura amorosa” from “Così fan tutte” and accompanied by the orchestra.

The concert is free, and the public is invited to attend. For more information, contact the SDSU School of Performing Arts at 605-688-5187.