Talk about running the gamut of emotions.

On the program of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s eclectic new-music concert at the intimate Orpheum Annex, you’ve got John Rea’s Accident (Tombeau de Grisey), a headspinner that alludes to everything from Aristotelian thinkers to Tristan und Isolde. It sits alongside Alice Ho’s moody Dark Waters and Jordan Nobles’s unearthly Equilibrium.

But you’ll leave with a grin on your face after the program wraps with Judith Weir’s Musicians Wrestle Everywhere and Frederick Rzewski’s Les Moutons de Panurge. VSO associate conductor Gordon Gerrard rules over the musical roller-coaster ride.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents Sublime to (Slightly) Silly at the Orpheum Annex on Sunday (April 24).