Michael Zwiebach

This weekend, Fremont Symphony puts you on the Great White Way, with a spring pops salute to Broadway musicals. Wicked, The Producers, Aida and a number of classic shows from Annie Get Your Gun to Fiddler on the Roof will share the bill, with soloists and orchestra under Greg “Suds” Sudmeier.

The St. Lawrence String Quartet estimates they've given about 2,000 concerts in their 20 years together. They never hold back in performance, and every chance to see them is special, although, thankfully, not rare. This weekend the group anchors the final Sundays@Four concert of the season at the Crowden Music Center in Berkeley.

William Bolcom, one of the indisputably great American composers is showing up in the Bay Area this week and the 72-year-old is not sparing himself, so you have several chances to check him out.

Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, the music director of New Century Chamber Orchestra, has made it clear that she doesn’t want her orchestra pigeonholed. So when she signed up her pal William Bolcom to be the orchestra’s featured composer this year, she gave him the widest latitude possible in his commissioned piece.

Concerto Köln belongs to that rare breed of early-music bands that can make a beloved favorite sound remarkably fresh. Handel fans, for instance, may know them as the orchestra for Harmonia Mundi’s 1991 recording of Giulio Cesare with Jennifer Larmore and Barbara Schlick, still the pacesetter on that front.