Ensemble Connect’s trademark virtuosity and versatility is showcased in a program that features works by Barber, Brahms, and Sean Shepherd. Barber’s Summer Music—cast in one short movement—soars with beautiful melodies and delights with witty writing in the winds. Brahms’s String Sextet in G Major, Op. 36, is richly romantic and anticipates the power of the composer’s great symphonies. Known for its commitment to the leading composers of our day, Ensemble Connect also performs Octet by Sean Shepherd, who has been hailed as “an exciting composer of the new American generation” (The New York Times).