Today
• The Portland String Quartet performs a concert of Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart at 2 p.m. today at Woodfords Congregational Church, 202 Woodford St., Portland. A preconcert lecture begins at 1 p.m. Tickets cost $22; $20 for seniors; free for ages 21 and younger.
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This week
• Tribute artist Elvis Wade will join the Portland Symphony Orchestra for “Elvis Lives!” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. April 10 at Merrill Auditorium.
Guest conductor Robert Franz will lead the PSO Pops. Franz is music director of the Boise Philharmonic and associate conductor of the Houston Symphony.
The program includes many of Elvis Presley’s most popular songs, including “Return to Sender,” “Jailhouse Rock” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love.”
Fans still holding tickets to Presley’s scheduled performances at the Cumberland County Civic Center on Aug. 17 and 18, 1977, will get in free to the symphony if they bring their ticket to the Merrill box office at least one hour prior to the concert. Presley died in advance of those civic center shows.
Tickets range from $20 to $65, and are available through PortTIX at 842-0800 or porttix.com.
Coming up
• Portland Chamber Music Festival presents a concert at 8 p.m. Saturday at Congregation Bet Ha’am, 81 Westbrook St., South Portland.
Maine-based cellist Marc Johnson, violist Michelle LaCourse of Boston, oboist Peggy Pearson and violinist Jennifer Elowitch will perform a work by John Harbison, “Six American Painters,” inspired by works of art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Harbison wrote the oboe version of the piece for Pearson. He is a superstar composer, winner of a MacArthur Genius Grant and Pulitzer Prize.
Tickets cost $25 and are free for ages 21 and younger. Visit pcmf.org or call (800) 320-0257.
• Portland Conservatory of Music presents its annual Back Cove Music Festival with concerts at 4 and 7:30 p.m. April 16 and 4 p.m. April 17 at Woodfords Congregational Church in Portland.
The festival focuses on the work of women composers, including Beth Wiemann, Dalit Warshaw, Kitty Brazelton, Elizabeth Austin, Nancy Gunn, Gia Comolli and Diane Goolkasian Rahbee. The program also will include music by composers Dan Sonenberg, Elliot Schwartz, Don Pride, Harold Stover, Bill Matthews, Peter McLaughlin, Abriel Ferreira and Joshua DeScherer.
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