May 14--Music of the Baroque: Music director Jane Glover closes the season by leading the chorus, orchestra and soloists in masterworks of peace and war: Handel's "Dettingen Te Deum" and Haydn's "Mass in Time of War." 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University, 50 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston; and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St.; $27-$75; 312-551-1414, baroque.org
Ars Viva Symphony: The exemplary orchestra under Alan Heatherington wraps up its 20-year history with works by Dvorak, Sibelius and Brahms that have long been specialties of the music director, plus Miklos Rosza's lyrical Violin Concerto (Ilya Kaler, soloist). 3 p.m. Sunday, North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie; $32-$70; 855-277-8482, arsviva.org
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: The Emerson Quartet will bring the society's 2014-15 Chicago residency to a close with a program introducing the ensemble's new cellist, Paul Watkins. The program holds Mozart's String Quintet in E flat, K.614; Tchaikovsky's sextet "Souvenir de Florence"; and the local premiere of a 2014 quartet by Lowell Liebermann. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St.; 312-334-7777, harristheaterchicago.org
Chicago Symphony members: Rei Hotoda conducts and narrates a family-oriented program of Tchaikovsky favorites, with assistant principal cello Kenneth Olsen as soloist. 1:30 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Neuqua Valley High School, 2360 95th St., Naperville; $15-$20; 312-294-3000, cso.org
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: In the second program of the "Reveries Passions" French Festival, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts a concert version of Debussy's haunting opera "Pelleas et Melisande," with Stefane Degout and Christine Rice in the title roles, Eric Owens as Golaud and Elodie Mechain as Genevieve. Actress Dianne Wiest is the narrator; 7 p.m. Saturday and Tuesday (note early curtain). The festival's concluding concerts under Salonen's direction will hold two major works, Ravel's cheeky Piano Concerto in G major, with Jean-Yves Thibaudet as soloist; and Olivier Messiaen's massive "Turangalila" Symphony; 8 p.m. Thursday (repeated May 22-23). $29-$216. Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; 312-294-3000, cso.org
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras: For the ensembles' season finale, guitarists Bryce Dessner (of the rock band The National) and Gyan Riley will join music director Allen Tinkham for the Chicago premiere of Dessner's "St. Carolyn by the Sea." Works by Copland, Liszt and Rachmaninov round out the program. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $20-$40; 312-939-2207, cyso.org
Contempo: New works by Katherine Pukinskis, Phil Taylor and Iddo Aharony, doctoral candidates in composition at the University of Chicago, will be performed by eighth blackbird, the Pacifica Quartet and other musicians, in the second and final "Tomorrow's Music Today" concert. Cliff Colnot conducts. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave.; free; 773-702-2787, contempo.uchicago.edu
Five Elements Project: Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, pipa virtuoso Yang Wei and other artists present the fourth and final concert of the Chinese Fine Arts Society's yearlong festival of music inspired by ancient Chinese philosophy. The program will include the world premiere of Huang Ruo's "Floating Sonnet," written for Barton Pine. 3 p.m. Sunday, Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave.; $20; chinesefinearts.org
Yo-Yo Ma: The cellist and CSO creative consultant is joined by CSO musicians for an afternoon of French chamber works, including Messiaen's visionary "Quartet for the End of Time" and a new piece for cello and bass by Matthew Aucoin. 3 p.m. Sunday, Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $50-$196; 312-294-3000, cso.org
Marion Consort: The Chicago early music ensemble performs music from Renaissance Florence by Guillaume Dufay, Josquin Des Prez and others. 3 p.m. Sunday, St. Tarcissus Catholic Parish, 6040 W. Ardmore Ave.; $16-$18; marionconsort.org
North Shore Chamber Arts Ensemble: Principal guest conductor Franz Anton Krager directs the rarely heard Erwin Stein arrangement of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4. Nancy Wiebe Mazurowski is the soprano soloist. 4 p.m. Sunday, North Shore United Methodist Church, 213 Hazel Ave., Glencoe; 847-835-1227, northshoreensemble.org
Renovo String Orchestra: The ensemble under guest director Robert McConnell plays Tchaikovsky's "Serenade for Strings," Bach's "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 3, David Diamond's "Rounds" and other works. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston; $25; 847-859-9351, renovostrings.org
Third Coast Percussion: Composer and drummer Glenn Kotche (of the rock band Wilco) is guest artist for a program of new percussion works, including his own "Wild Sound" and Steve Reich's "Music for Drums" and "Nagoya Marimbas." 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave.; $28; 312-397-4010, mcachicago.org
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