The 70-member Piedmont Virginia Community College Chorus will perform John Rutter’s “Requiem’’ and Randall Thompson’s “Frostiana’’ during its annual spring concert. The performance begins 3 p.m. Sunday in the V. Earl Dickinson Building.

Next week, fans of Ludwig van Beethoven and cello music can follow the Orkis-Hardy Duo on a dramatic musical journey through the composer’s career.
“It has some of each period that he wrote for this genre,” pianist Lambert Orkis said. “What makes this program so interesting for cellists is this is the first composer to write specifically for the cello.’’

Saxophonist Kenny G, a trio of bass guitar virtuosos and three folk singer-songwriters are among the attractions coming to the Paramount Theater this summer.

The Paramount Theater has announced the first two shows of its summer series.

The Virginia Glee Club will present Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Magnificat’’ with the Wellesley College Choir at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Cabell Hall Auditorium.
“Magnificat’’ will be performed with an orchestra.

Three conductors will lead the way when the Charlottesville Municipal Band presents its 86th annual Spring Concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the V. Earl Dickinson Building at Piedmont Virginia Community College.

What goes with string cheese and salmon?
Jam, of course.
The Emmitt Nershi Band, featuring Bill Nershi of the String Cheese Incident and Drew Emmitt of Leftover Salmon, will be performing 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Earth Day Jam at Gravity Lounge.
Blue Ridge Outdoors is hosting the event, which will benefit the Piedmont Environmental Council.

For years, John D’earth has searched for the right way to unite his approach to jazz with his poet brother’s way with words.
Tonight, audience members settling into their seats in Cabell Hall Auditorium can expect to hear poetry and music find common ground — and uncommon emotional appeal — when the University of Virginia Jazz Ensemble presents “Speaking in Tongues.’’

It’s that time of year again. People are paying a little more attention to weather forecasts, e-mailing friends to coordinate dinner plans and toting shorts and flip-flops to change into after work. The end of the workday can’t arrive quickly enough.
A new season of Fridays After Five — the 21st edition of the free outdoor concerts at the end of the Downtown Mall — gets under way later this afternoon with the country and rock music of Sons of Bill.

Gary Mullen is aware that fellow fans of the rock band Queen want it all, and they want it now. That’s why Mullen and his band, the Works, will bring “One Night of Queen’’ to the Paramount Theater on Thursday.

The Gladys Knight show previously planned for June 28 at the Charlottesville Pavilion has been canceled.

Actor and musician Chuck Mitchell will perform for the Barking Cherry House Concert Series starting 8 p.m. Saturday in a private home in Charlottesville.

He knows when to hold ’em and knows when to fold ’em. Now Kenny Rogers knows when he’ll make his first appearance at the Charlottesville Pavilion.
And when tickets go on sale 10 a.m. April 11, fans will know when to run.
Rogers will be performing decades of genre-spanning hits 7 p.m. Aug. 23 at the Pavilion.

The University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble will present a program of instrumental klezmer and Hasidic music at 8 p.m. Sunday in Cabell Hall Auditorium.

Jazz concert venues offer many fans a comfortable place to let their hair down. This weekend, there’s a jazz show in a place where listeners might get theirs shaped up.
“John Carden Sings Jazz’’ will be presented at 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday and again 4 p.m. Sunday in Salon Druknya on the Downtown Mall. Carden will be teaming up with pianist Evan Mook, guitarist Humberto Sales, saxophonist David Sanford and bassist Dave Berzonsky to perform American and Brazilian jazz.

If you’re hungry for an interactive dinner theater experience, it’s time to make some reservations.

The University Singers will present a Gala Concert to mark the group’s 50th anniversary at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Cabell Hall Auditorium.
The world premiere of a commissioned work from American composer Stephen Paulus is part of the festivities. Paulus has written a new setting of Psalm 46 based on a translation by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Local audiences will get the chance to hear an ensemble that reached the spotlight after West and East Germany reunited in 1990 and wowed American audiences on its debut U.S. tour in 2005.
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin will present music by Antonio Vivaldi, Alessandro Marcello, Johann Gottlieb Graun, Philipp Heinrich Erlebach and J.S. Bach for the Tuesday Evening Concert Series at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Cabell Hall Auditorium at the University of Virginia.

Transformation Ministries First Baptist Church will be bringing PrazeFest 2008 to the Martin Luther King Jr. Performing Arts Center at 7 p.m. Saturday.

Keith Urban and Carrie Underwood saw their most recent CD releases debut at No. 1. Next week, the Grammy Award-winning country stars will make another debut — at the John Paul Jones Arena.

Judy Collins has sung traditional folk songs, important works by top songwriters and plenty of her own compositions, picking up. Getting around to the songs of John Lennon and Paul McCartney took a long and winding road.
Collins recorded the Lennon-McCartney composition “In My Life’’ in 1966, on her album by the same name, but it was her only venture into Beatles territory until last year.
Collins, who’ll be performing Thursday evening at the Paramount Theater, released “Judy Collins Sings Lennon and McCartney’’ last summer. It includes “And I Love Her,’’ “Norwegian Wood,’’ “Yesterday,’’ “I’ll Follow the Sun’’ and, of course, “Long and Winding Road.’’

The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields can serve up a dreamy pastoral passage as smooth as a pearl. That doesn’t mean, however, that the musicians don’t remember where pearls come from.
“I’ve always thought that a program, like an oyster, should have a little bit of grit in it,’’ said Kenneth Sillito, who will direct the renowned   chamber ensemble in Friday’s concert at the Paramount Theater.

The Eagles will perform 8 p.m. May 21 at Charlottesville’s John Paul Jones Arena, the arena announced this morning.

The University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music is marking a musical milestone Saturday in Cabell Hall Auditorium with an evening concert and an afternoon of historical context.
The 100th anniversary of the installation of UVa’s E.M. Skinner organ will be observed with an afternoon symposium starting at 2 p.m. and a recital at 8 p.m. featuring Ken Cowan, professor of organ at Westminster Choir College.

San Francisco isn’t known as a hotbed for string bands, but the Waybacks have made the Bay Area proud with the band’s brand of progressive Americana.
Sure, the band likes to jam, and has even toured with hometown friend Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, but the four-piece, which features James Nash on guitar and mandolin, young fiddle ace Warren Hood, drummer Chuck Hamilton and Joe Kyle Jr. on bass, more often tastefully expands on the territory first made popular by Sam Bush and his work in Newgrass Revival.
On their latest release “Loaded,” which hit stores last week, the Waybacks’ range of string work shows off a skilled propensity to cover multiple genres, including Memphis-style soul, honky-tonk and swing.

The Dave Matthews Band has announced its annual summer sojourn, which will stop June 28 at Nissan Pavilion in Manassas with Spearhead and Aug. 7 at Virginia Beach Amphitheater with TR3 opening.

DJ Drama will host an album release party for “The O’Drama Coalition: Tha PuppetMaster,’’ the latest CD by H.I.M., the King of Kings, on April 12 at the John Paul Jones Arena.

Take 6 member Alvin Chea once saw a magnet on a friend’s refrigerator that said, “Leap, and the net will appear.’’ He found the sentiment a familiar one.
“That’s how we approach things,’’ Chea said of his Grammy Award-winning vocal group, which is at home in gospel, jazz, rhythm and blues and many more styles. “Being an a cappella group in an electronic age is a bold thing.’’

Most folks aren’t crazy about the idea of taking their work home with them. For the members of the Battlefield Band, it’s a pleasure.
That’s because the traditional Scottish music that the internationally respected band performs isn’t quaint period material played to oh-so-exact specifications on the right reproduction instruments. It’s a thriving genre back home in Edinburgh, Scotland, and when members are home between tours, they’re likely to be found jamming with friends and neighbors — and getting new ideas all the time.