Donald Crockett conducts the USC Thornton Symphony in the annual New Music for Orchestra program premiering outstanding Thornton composition students' works.  The program includes music by Peter Shin, Ryan McWilliams, Georgi Dimitrov, Bryan Curt Kostors, Thomas Mellan and Julia Adolphe.  Also featured are the cello quintet out of the Thornton School, Sakura, in Thomas Mellan's ...on transcendence..., and New York Philharmonic principal violist and Thornton alumna, Cynthia Phelps, in a preview performance of Julia Adolphe's Unearth, Release, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic.