STAVE SESSIONS The Celebrity Series mini-festival returns for its second year of showcasing prominent voices on today’s vibrant alt-classical scene, performing in a club-style setting at Berklee. This year’s edition features So Percussion, Glenn Kotche, and many others. March 13-19, 160 Massachusetts Ave., 617-482-6661, www.celebrityseries.org

MONTREAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The MSO’s coast-to-coast US tour under Kent Nagano stops off on Mass. Ave. with Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,’’ Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring’’ and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 featuring soloist Daniil Trifonov. March 16, 8 p.m., Symphony Hall. www.osm.ca/en

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA French conductor Stéphane Denève will reprise Saint-Saens’s “Organ’’ Symphony alongside Jennifer Higdon’s “Blue Cathedral’’ and John Williams’s Violin concerto, with soloist Gil Shaham. March 17-19, Symphony Hall. 617-266-1200, www.bso.org JEREMY EICHLER

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