Science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut might be amused that his 1969 literary masterpiece “Slaughterhouse-Five” has been adapted into a concert suite by the same name and is making its world premiere tonight at the Peabody Institute. Like the novel?s time-traveling hero, Billy Pilgrim, anything goes, give or take 40 years.

“The book was [recently] given to me by a friend, and it blew me away structurally,” said composer and Peabody alumnus Brian Drake. “The whole possibility of moving back and forth in time inspired me to write four movements, each with a different compositional style.”