Highs and lows at National Orchestral Institute program

The University of Maryland's National Orchestral Institute, an annual summer event since 1988, draws top talent from colleges and conservatories around the country for a month of intensive training and concerts. Its fourth program (of five) Saturday at the Clarice Smith center might have been subtitled "Technicolor" -- works by Strauss (Till Eulenspiegel lustige Streiche), Britten (Four Sea Interludes) and Holst (The Planets), whose most prominent feature is a dazzling array of creative sonoriti...