An international music selection is on the bill for tonight's concert in Schwab Auditorium.

Students, members of the University community and State College residents will have the chance to travel around the world through music performed by the Orion String Quartet and special guest, clarinetist David Krakauer.

The Quartet, made up of brothers Daniel and Todd Phillips, who share the first violin part, violist Steven Tenenbom, and cellist Timothy Eddy, will perform four pieces, two of which Krakauer will also perform, according to the Center for the Performing Arts Web site.

The quartet musicians got together as the Orion String Quartet 21 years ago and started working with Krakauer about two or three years ago, Eddy said.

The first piece, "Italian Serenade," by Austrian composer Hugo Wolf, will be performed by just the quartet.

"He's particularly known for his lieder, which is a German word for the art songs that were so popular in the 19th century," Eddy said. "This is an unusual piece. It's a wonderfully lively and fanciful piece."

The second piece, called "Magyar Madness," is one of the selections in which Krakauer will take part.

It is by American composer David Del Tredici, who composed the piece in 2006 specifically for the Orion Quartet and Krakauer.

The piece draws on Hungarian and klezmer music techniques throughout. Even in the title, the word "Magyar" indicates Hungarian influence, Eddy said.

"It's really wild. The third movement is just monstrous. It's very extravagant not only in the length, but in the experience. It has a very strong sort of ethnic, Hungarian flavor to it," Eddy said.

The third piece, "K'vakarat," is by the Argentinean-born Osvaldo Golijov, who is of Russian and Jewish descent. The piece, originally composed for a Jewish cantor and a string quartet, was written for the Washington D.C. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Eddy said.

"The clarinet takes the role of the cantor," Eddy said. "It's full of soulful inflections a cantor will give a text."

The last piece will again be just the quartet, performing Ludwig van Beethoven's Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59 No. 2, "Rasumovsky."

The piece was composed in a time when Beethoven "wrote in standard form and filled it with extended and imaginative development," Eddy said.

The diversity of the program is attractive to concert-goers, Eddy said.

"It's a really rich program and we're so looking forward to playing it and hope to give people a really good time."