A night of music by LGBTQ composers at the Oakland Symphony.

The Oakland Symphony’s expansive “Notes From …” series has generally cast a celebratory spotlight on the music of geographically specific cultures — Armenia, Vietnam, India and more. But on Friday, Feb. 9, Music Director Michael Morgan took the orchestra and its patrons in a wonderfully oblique direction, with a concert at the Paramount Theatre devoted to “Notes From LGBTQ.”