Classical Music

TANGLEWOOD The Ozawa Hall season gets underway next week with the keenly anticipated return of the Mark Morris Dance Group (with Yo-Yo Ma). The annual String Quartet Marathon will also take place in the Tanglewood Theatre, performed by fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center. June 28-29, 617-266-1200, www.tanglewood.org

We don't tend to think much about the "classical" in classical music, the art form's links to ancient Greek culture. But as Robert Kirzinger reminded listeners in a program essay for Friday's Boston Modern Orchestra Project concert in Jordan Hall, the phrase classical music itself — while today almost meaningless in its catch-all nature — still acknowledges its implicit debt to more ancient pasts. And the myths of classical antiquity retained their purchase on the progressive 20th-century musical imagination, too, as Friday's program seemed intent on demonstrating through works by Carter,...

CLASSICAL MUSIC BOSTON PHILHARMONIC Benjamin Zander leads Nielsen's "Inextinguishable" Symphony No. 4, alongside Sibelius's "Swan of Tuonela" and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the Russian soloist Ilya Kaler. Today at 3 p.m. Sanders Theatre. 617-236-0999, www.bostonphil.org. BRENTANO QUARTET The Brentano performs its ambitious "Fragments" project, pairing music by Schubert, Bach, Mozart, Shostakovich, and others, with modern-day responses by living composers.

BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT BMOP and conductor Gil Rose (pictured) close their season with a program of 20th-century works — by Elliott Carter, Nikos Skalkottas, Lewis Spratlan, and Stravinsky — each with a connection to Greek mythology. 8 p.m., May 18. Jordan Hall. 781-324-0396, www.bmop.org CHORAL BOSTON Choral options abound on Saturday, with Musica Sacra's nocturnal-themed program "To Sleep Perchance to Dream"; Cappella Clausura performing music by Chiara Cozzolani, Raffaella Aleotti, and others; and Coro Allegro offering Rachmaninoff's "Liturgy of St. John...

When flowers bloom, temperatures rise, and spring starts to arrive on the South Shore, the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra is preparing its final concert of the season. This year the orchestra is bringing the familiar sounds of the Broadway stage to Braintree's Thayer Academy Center for the Arts, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The orchestra, conducted by Jin Kim, will perform a medley of songs from the beloved musicals "Phantom of the Opera," "The King and I," "Oklahoma!" and "Les Miserables.

Prized faculty at MassArt In his review of the new photography exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, Mark Feeney draws attention both to Barbara Bosworth's evocative images and to the indigenous miracle that is the MassArt photography department ("Nature and family — simply put," g, April 20). As partner to one of the faculty, I realize I have a privileged (if partisan) perspective when I say: It's about time someone shone a light on the cache of talent teaching there.

The Lexington Symphony has been awarded a $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts Works grant for its children's education program, Orchestrating Kids Through Classics. Orchestrating Kids Through Classics, begun in 2009, served nearly 3,000 children from around the region. The grant will allow the symphony to expand the program, according to a release from the Lexington Symphony. "As musicians, we love Orchestrating Kids because it reaches students from all different communities and gets them thinking about classical music in an exploring,...

WASHINGTON - Bert Weedon, a British guitarist whose popular "Play in a Day" instructional manual introduced a generation of rock stars to the power of the guitar, died April 20 at his home in Beaconsfield, England. He was 91. Friends confirmed his death to British news agencies but did not disclose the cause. Long before he gained fame as the author of a top-selling guide to the guitar, Mr. Weedon was known as a versatile performer who could play virtually any style of music at a glance.

Kids FAMILY DAY AT THE DAVIS: MEMORY IN MIXED MEDIA Kids are invited to an interactive exploration of the exhibit "Rad-cliffe Bailey: Memory as Medicine. " Afterward, they'll use some of the techniques they observed in their own art projects. April 21, 11 a.m. Free. Wellesley College, Davis Museum, 106 Central St., Wellesley. 781-283-2051, www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu SLEEPING BEAUTY This version of the classic fairy tale presented by the Tanglewood Marionettes begins in the great hall of King Felix, where the wicked witch arrives with an unwelcome surprise for young Princess Aurora.

INDIAN HILL MUSIC Bruce Hangen leads the Orchestra of Indian Hill in a program featuring Britten's classic "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra," among other works by Copland, Dvorak, and Bloch. 7:30, April 14. Littleton. 978-486-9524, www.indianhillmusic.org THE MET: LIVE IN HD The Met's simulcasts to movie theaters have proved popular with local opera lovers, but they're also a practical and relatively inexpensive way to introduce the art form. "La Traviata" comes to participating local cinemas on April 14, and an encore (non-live)