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The week ahead: Classical music

CHORAL BOSTON Masterworks Chorale performs Bach’s B-Minor Mass on Friday at Sanders Theatre; Musica Sacra offers a program titled “The Joke’s On. . . Choral Music to Tickle Your Funny Bone’’ on Saturday at First Church in Cambridge; and Back Bay Chorale joins forces with the New Bedford Symphony for a concert featuring Beethoven’s Ninth and Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms,’’ on Sunday afternoon (May 15) in Sanders Theatre. www.masterworkschorale.org, www.musicasacra.org, www.bbc boston.org

NEW MUSIC New Gallery Concert Series wraps up its season on Thursday with works by Marti Epstein, David Rakowski, and David Cucchiara alongside video art by Deb Todd Wheeler, at the Community Music Center of Boston. And the Lorelei Ensemble joins forces with the Boston Percussion Group to offer works by Reiko Yamada, Steve Reich, Björk, and others, on Friday and Saturday at Boston Conservatory’s Ipswich Hall. www.newgalleryconcert series.org, www.loreleiensemble.com

CHAMBER MUSIC Trio Cleonice and guests bring Bartok’s Fourth Quartet and more to United Parish of Brookline on Tuesday night. And Boston Chamber Music Society has works by Mozart, Schumann, and John Harbison on Sunday (May 15) at Sanders Theatre. www.triocleonice.com, www.bostonchambermusic.org JEREMY EICHLER