Arianna String Quartet: In works by Beethoven. 12:15 p.m. Wednesday in Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. Free; 312-744-6630
Artists from Ravinia’s Steans Institute: 1 p.m. Sunday at Ravinia Festival, Bennett-Gordon Hall, 200-231 Ravinia Park Road, Highland Park. Free; 847-266-5100
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Pinchas Zukerman appears as violin soloist and conductor, along with his daughter, soprano Arianna Zukerman, in an all-Mozart program that includes Symphony No. 40, Adagio and Rondo for violin, and motet “Exsultate Jubilate”; 8 p.m. Friday, $40-$50, $12 lawn. Pre-concert discussion by musicologist Robert Greenberg at 1 p.m. Sunday in Bennett-Gordon Hall (free for ticket-holders). The Big Three of American music will take center stage when James Conlon leads Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 (“Age of Anxiety”), Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring” Suite and George Gershwin’s Piano Concerto, with piano soloists Joyce Yang and Orion Weiss; 5 p.m. Sunday; $25, $10 lawn. Joshua Bell is the soloist for Mendelssohn’s ever-popular Violin Concerto in E minor, with Conlon also directing adagios by Mahler (from the unfinished Symphony No. 10) and Samuel Barber (“Adagio for Strings”); 8 p.m. Tuesday; $60-$80, $20 lawn. The splendid, Chicago-based pianist Jorge Federico Osorio begins a cycle of the five Beethoven piano concertos with Nos. 1-3, Conlon conducting; 8 p.m. Thursday (cycle concludes July 16); $40-$50, $12 lawn. Ravinia Festival, 200-231 Ravinia Park Road, Highland Park. 847-266-5100, ravinia.org
Mark Damisch: The Chicago lawyer-turned-pianist performs a recital of Schubert, Beethoven, Gershwin and others to benefit Habitat for Humanity. 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. Paul the Apostle Church, 6401 Gages Road, Gurnee. Freewill offering at the door; stpaul-gurnee.com
Grant Park Music Festival: The gifted Chinese-American conductor Xian Zhang makes her festival debut with a program consisting of Sibelius’ Second Symphony, Prokofiev’s “Love for Three Oranges” Suite and Chen-Yi’s “Antiphony”; 6:30 p.m. Friday and 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Guest conductor Hans Graf is joined by cellist Alban Gerhardt for an all-Russian program that includes works by Tchaikovsky along with Stravinsky’s “Petrushka”; 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, 100 N. Michigan Ave. Free; 312-742-7638, grantparkmusicfestival.com
Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra: Orchestra members partner with Ravisloe Country Club for a summer chamber music series that runs to Aug. 13. The opening concert holds string quartets by Mozart and Shostakovich, plus Mendelssohn’s Octet. 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Ravisloe Country Club, 18231 South Park Ave., Homewood. $25; 708-481-7774, ipomusic.org
Pamela Frank, viola: Master class. 2 p.m. Thursday at
Ravinia Festival, Bennett-Gordon Hall, 200-231 Ravinia Park Road, Highland Park. Free; 847-266-5100
Rush Hour Concerts: The summer-long series of convivial chamber programs continues with a verbal and musical explication of Schumann’s “Kinderszenen” (“Scenes from Childhood”) by pianist Kuang-Hao Huang and poet Mary Ann Hoberman. A reception precedes the concert. 5:15 p.m. Tuesday at St. James Cathedral, 65 E. Huron St. Free; rushhour.org
Wheaton Symphony Orchestra: Kevin McMahon directs the ensemble in hits from Hollywood movies including Steven Spielberg and James Bond films. 8 p.m. Saturday at Cantigny, 1S151 Winfield Road, Wheaton. $10-$15; 630-260-8162
Wicker Park Choral Singers: Mark Tomasino leads the ensemble in “Angels and Demons,” a classical and pop program that includes a new work, “Angelus,” by Chicago composer Eric Malmquist. 2 p.m. Saturday at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1145 N. 5th St., St. Charles; and 12:15 p.m. Monday at Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St. Free; wickerparksings.org
