THINGS MUSIC

CLASSICAL Capital Region Wind Ensemble,

Carl B. Taylor Auditorium, SUNY Schenectady County Community College, 78 Washington Ave., Schenectady. 3 p.m. Sunday. Free. 518-3811200 or sunysccc.edu. “Southwest Colors” annual concert featuring 21 area high school musicians. Includes H. Owen Reed’s “La Fiesta Mexicana,” with soloist, guitarist Paul Quigley, as well as works by John J. Morrissey, Stephen Goss, Frank Duarte and John Philip Sousa.

Chamber Music Series Faculty Concert,

Carl B. Taylor Auditorium, SUNY Schenectady County Community College, 78 Washington Ave., Schenectady. 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Free. 518-381-1200 or sunysccc.edu. With baritone Joseph Han and pianist Mark Evans.

Close Encounters with Music ,

Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle St., Great Barrington, Mass. 4 p.m. Sunday. $28-$52. "Pictures at an Exhibition," a work in 10 movements by Modest Mussorgsky that was inspired by a visit to an art exhibition.

Empire State Youth Orchestra Playathon 2023,

Crossgates Mall, Albany. 10:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Saturday. Free, but donations accepted. 518382-7581 or esyo.org. The annual fundraiser takes place all day in the mall and is the only day of the year when all of ESYO’S perform together.

Filene Competition Winners from Skidmore College,

Schenectady County Public Library, 99 Clinton St., Schenectady. 2 p.m. Sunday. Free. 518-388-4500 or scpl.org. Works by Scriabin, Liszt, Chopin, Bonds, Haydn, Tchaikovsky and Ysaye.

Paul Lewis,

Memorial Chapel, Union College, 807 Union St., Schenectady. 3 p.m. Sunday. $35. 518-388-6785 or union.edu. The British pianist performs an all-schubert program.

“The Old Man and the Sea,”

MASS MOCA, 1040 MASS MOCA Way, North Adams, Mass. 8 p.m. Saturday. $15$70. 413-662-2111 or massmoca.org. Composer Paola Prestini presents a work-in-progress preview of her new opera, created with Royce Vavrek and Karmina Šilec, that interweaves Hemingway’s classic fable with original portraits of quotidian life to create a look at aging, legacy, and our relationship to oceans. Followed by a conversation on stage with the principal creative team.

Piano Recital in Memory of Suzanne Fremon,

Strand Theatre, 210 Main St., Hudson Falls. 3 p.m. Sunday. $5-$15. 518-832-3484 0r mystrandtheater.org. Jonathan Newell, Gioacchino Longobardi, Steven Gallucci and Milt Farbstein perform classical pieces to celebrate the life of the pianist who recently died in a fire. Proceeds will go to her husband to help in his fire-related recovery.

Project Trio, Chatham High School, 50 Woodbridge Ave., Chatham. 5 p.m. Friday. Free. 518-392-2400 or chathamcentralschools.com. A highenergy chamber music ensemble comprised of three virtuosic composer/performers from Brooklyn.

“Singing with Strings,” Van Buren Hall, 6 Chatham St., Kinderhook. 3 p.m. Sunday. Free-$20. 518-758-6869 or concertsinthevillage.org. The Broad Street Chamber Players perform works by Barber, Butterworth, Puccini, Respighi, Vaughan Williams and Verdi.

Tetzlaff-tetzlaff-dörken Trio,

Massry Center for the

Arts, The College of Saint Rose, 1002 Madison Ave., Albany. 7:30 p.m. Monday. $35. 518227-1746 or friendsofchambermusic.org. A performance featuring famous trios from Beethoven, Schubert and Dvorák.

Akina Yura, Performing Arts Center, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany. 7 p.m. Saturday. $3-$10. 518442-3300 or albany.edu/pac. The guest pianist returns for a recital featuring longtime favorite and rarely heard works by Beethoven, Chopin and Somei Satoh.