This concert at the Singletary Center for the Arts shares its name with a technique used by composer Ellen Taaffe Zwillich in her Symphony No. 1, a work which demonstrates the potential of a handful of ideas to develop into new material. Zwillich was the first female composer to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Music for this work in 1983. Béla Bartók’s Viola Concerto, unfinished at his death, was completed by Tibor Serly from sketches, memories and ideas, and features violist Jordan Bak. The evening concludes with Brahms’ beautiful Symphony No. 3, which incorporates cyclical techniques alongside folk melodies and musical codes.