SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY— March 9-11: Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; March 16-18: St. Patrick’s Day Celebration; March 24: Bach: Basically Brandenburg; March 29, 31: Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night’s Dream; April 6-7: Gershwin Salute; April 13: Mozart: The Last Five Years; April 21, 27, 29: Brahms, Symphony No. 2; May 3, 5: Bach: A Bach Family Album; May 12: Beethoven Lives Upstairs; May 18-20: Berlioz: Requiem; May 25-27: Beet-hoven: Symphony No. 3. Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B St., downtown, 619.235.0804. Map Q14
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Dartpower! at UCSD March 2: Arditti String Quartet; March 8: Chunky Move; April 19: Emio Greco | PC; April 21: Takács String Quartet; April 22: Dulce Pontes. Mandeville Auditorium, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, 858.534.8497. Map T20

Athenaeum Music and Arts Library March 12: Bella Sorella; March 18: Shanghai String Quartet, March 26: Ian Tordella; April 9: Alexander Wasserman; April 23: Daniel Noli & Alejandro Sole. April 25: Trio con Brio Copenhagen. 1008 Wall St., La Jolla, 858.454.5872. Additional events at other venues. Map W19

California Center for the Arts March 2: Harry Chapin Celebration; March 4: National Philharmonic of Russia; March 9-10: Alvin Ailey Dance; March 16: Dublin’s Irish Cabaret; March 18: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; March 21: Urban Cowboy: The Musical; March 23: Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau; March 23-24: Charles Phoenix’s Retro Slide Show; March 30-31: Rebound: Conny Janssen Danst; April 1: Shields and Yarnell; April 20: Neil Berg’s 100 Years of Broadway; April 21: Pirates of Penzance; April 27: Ravi Shankar; April 29: Electric Blue; May 2-4: Rent; May 12: Four Bitchin’ Babes; May 18: Hiroshima; May 24: San Diego Symphony. 340 N. Escondido Blvd., Escondido, 800.988.4253. Map B3

Coors Ampitheatre Outdoor performing arts theater with reserved seating for 9,442 plus lawn seating. Call for spring schedule. 2050 Entertainment Circle, Chula Vista, 619.671.3600. Map F4

La Jolla Music Society March 2: Beethoven by Johnathan Biss; March 17: Irving Berlin & Cole Porter by Max Raabe and Palast Orchester; March 18: Prokofiev and Stravinsky by violinist Sarah Chang and pianist Ashley Wass; March 23: Vivaldi & Brahms by Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Joshua Bell; March 30: Ashu, saxophone; April 13: Olga Kern. April 19: Cincinnati Symphony Orchstra; April 21: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio with Michael Tree, viola; April 28: Il Giardino Armonico; May 18: Virtual Strangers; May 24: Philadelphia Orchestra; Various venues. 858.459.3728.

Lyric Opera San Diego March 24-25: Gilbert & Sullivan’s Iolanthe. North Park Theatre, 2891 University Ave., North Park, 619.239.8836. Map I12

Mainly Mozart March 9-10: Beethoven by pianist John Lill; March 30-31: Brahms by Bill Preucil, violin; Sara Trobäck, violin; Cindy Phelps, viola; Ron Thomas, cello; Arthur Rowe, piano. The Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive, La Jolla, 619.239.0100. Map S21

Pala Casino Resort and Spa Spring performances include Alejandra Guzman (March 15) and Regis Philbin (March 25). Call for complete schedule. 1154 Hwy. 76, Pala, 877.946.7252. Map A3

Pechanga Resort And Casino Spring performances include Earth, Wind & Fire (March 23-24), Wayne Brady (March 30) and Chicago (April 13-14). Call for complete schedule. 45000 Pechanga Parkway, Temecula, 877.711.2946. Map A3

San Diego Chamber Orchestra April 9, 10, 13: Cellist Felix Fan plays Haydn and Mendelssohn. Various venues. 858.350.0290.

San Diego Opera March 24, 27, 30, April 1, 4: Il Trovatore; April 14, 17, 20, 22: Wozzeck; May 5, 8, 11, 13, 16: The Marriage of Figaro. Civic Theatre, Third Ave. at B St., downtown, 619.533.7000. Map Q16

Spreckles Organ Pavillion Sundays, 2–3 p.m. Free concerts on the world’s largest outdoor pipe organ. Balboa Park, 619.702.8138. Map O17

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