Sept. 17--Concert for Chicago: Music director Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in its annual free performance for the community. His program holds Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture No 3 and Gustav Mahler's First Symphony. 6:30 p.m. Friday, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street; 312-294-3000, cso.org
Bach Keyboard Festival: Radio station WFMT's 11-concert series devoted to J.S. Bach's works for keyboard gets underway with a recital by the internationally celebrated, Chicago-born harpsichordist Jory Vinikour. His program includes the "Italian" Concerto, English Suite in F Major and other works. The festival runs through Nov. 1. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Logan Center for the Performing Arts, University of Chicago, 915 E. 60th St.; $25; wfmt.com/events
Callipygian Players: One of the area's premier period instrument ensembles launches its fall season with Vivaldi's ever-popular "The Four Seasons," played on a baroque violin by director Martin Davids. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Anderson Chapel, North Park University, 3225 W. Foster Ave.; $25; calplayers.org
Camerata Chicago: Singer Sylvia McNair, who has successfully crossed over from the classical repertory to lighter fare, joins music director Drostan Hall and his chamber orchestra for an all-Gershwin concert. The program includes "An American in Paris" and "Rhapsody in Blue," with Sun Chang as piano soloist. 7 p.m. Thursday, Fourth Presbyterian Church, 126 E. Chestnut St. (repeated Sept. 25 in Park Ridge, Sept. 26 in Wheaton); $40, $30 for seniors, free for ages 16 and younger; cameratachicago.com
Chicago Composers Orchestra: Chris Ramaekers conducts what is billed as the stage premiere of "Andina" (1935), an opera by Colombian-born, Depression-era Chicago composer Eustasio Rosales, considered the city's first Hispanic composer. The opera, to be sung in Spanish with English titles, concerns a young Colombian mountain girl caught between rich and poor suitors. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave.; $13-$17; 773-935-6860, andinalives.com
Chicago Opera Theater: COT's season-opening production of "Lucio Silla," the teenaged Mozart's rarely heard saga of love, deceit and intrigue, gets a free community performance in advance of its ticketed run Sept. 26-Oct 4. General director Andrea Mitisek directs, Francesco Milioto conducts. 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E Randolph St.; 312-704-8414, chicagooperatheater.org
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: French harpist Xavier de Maistre joins Riccardo Muti and the CSO for a program that surrounds Alberto Ginastera's Harp Concerto with music by Chabrier, Ravel and Gustave Charpentier. 8 p.m. Thursday, Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave. (repeated Sept. 25-29); $34-$221, 312-294-3000, cso.org
CSO -- Symphony Ball: Rounding out the opening weekend of the orchestra's 125th anniversary celebration is the CSO women's board's annual black-tie concert and gala. Riccardo Muti's program includes Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and Elgar's "In the South." 7 p.m. Saturday, Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $45-$235 (concert only); 312-294-3000, cso.org
Latino Music Festival: The 10th annual celebration of Latin American and Spanish music continues with a concert by the Waller-Maxwell Guitar Duo; 7 p.m. Friday, Instituto Cervantes, 31 W. Ohio St.; $15; 312-335-1996, brownpapertickets.com. Ensemble Dal Niente plays a free concert of new music from Colombia, Panama, Mexico, Peru and Argentina; 2 p.m. Sunday, Pritzker Auditorium, Harold Washington Library, 400 S. State St.; 312-747-4300. La Catrina String Quartet presents contemporary Latin American string quartets; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Logan Center for the Performing Arts, University of Chicago, 915 E. 60th St.; $25, $10 for seniors; 773-702-2787. The festival runs through Nov. 22. latinoculturalenter.org
Sergio Monteiro: The Brazilian pianist opens the Jewel Box Series with a recital that includes Schumann's "Novelettes" and Albeniz's "Iberia," Book One. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Steinberg Fine Arts Center Recital Hall, Northeastern Illinois University, 3701 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.; $25, $17.50 for seniors; 773-442-4636, neiu.edu/tickets
National Brass Ensemble: Brass players representing seven top-tier U.S. orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, perform arrangements of Verdi opera overtures under the guest direction of Riccardo Muti. Music by Giovanni Gabrieli and others rounds out the program. 3 p.m. Sunday, Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $33-$116; 312-294-3000, cso.org
Orion Ensemble: The accomplished Chicago chamber group begins its 23rd season with a program laden with Mozart (including Divertimento in E flat for string trio and "Kegelstatt" clarinet trio) along with Faure's Piano Quartet in C minor and the premiere of Jackson Berkey's "Homage to Percy Bysshe Shelley." 7 p.m. Sunday, First Baptist Church of Geneva, 2300 South St., Geneva (repeated Oct. 4 in Evanston, Oct. 7 in Chicago); $26, $23 for seniors, free for children 12 and younger; 630-628-9591, orionensemble.org
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