The Dallas Symphony Orchestra's ReMix series of shorter and more casual concerts, at Moody Performance Hall, has struggled to find an identity. Maybe that's actually the point, to have maximum flexibility.  But Friday night's concert, with munchies and drinks in the lobby before and afterward, did have a real focus, and an imaginative one. Led by assistant conductor Ruth Reinhardt, it was an all-Italian program, popular Rossini overtures framing two works by the late Luciano Berio.

With, essentially, a large chamber-orchestra version of the DSO, both The Barber of Seville and William Tell overtures got vividly characterized performances. Many a conductor could learn from Reinhardt's stick technique. With no wasted motion, she conveys rhythmic precision, expressive shape and a feeling for structure and direction.