Art: Tomorrow, the Society of the Four Arts opens a new exhibit that takes its art viewers into the world of the Old West. Recapturing the Real West: The Collections of William I. Koch includes about 500 items, most of which have not been seen but have been loaned to the society by Koch, the industrialist, sailing champion and founder of Oxbow Energy Group.

The collection includes the only known image of Billy the Kid, paintings by Charles Russell and Frederic Remington, a daguerreotype of Annie Oakley, plus sculpture, clothing and other artifacts from the American West. The exhibit, divided into historical sections, also will feature about 150 historic guns from the period. Tickets are $5; gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays. Call 655-7226 or visit www.fourarts.org.

Film: Having just gone through the political overload of the Florida presidential primary, it is worth being reminded that we are not the only country in the world whose election process is messy. Consider the similar squabbling in France, as depicted in The Conquest, the slightly fictionalized for legalities’ sake tale of the rise to power of diminutive Nicolas Sarkozy. It watches as he assumes the presidency against considerable odds, losing his wife and his top aide along the way. Veteran French actor Denis Podalydes is very persuasive as Sarkozy -- at least from our distant vantage point -- guided by the workmanlike direction of co-screenwriter Xavier Durringer. Ultimately, the film does not really take sides about the man, but it comes down hard against the political system around which he maneuvered. Opening today at Mos’Art Theatre in Lake Park.

Theater: This Tuesday evening, Lou Tyrrell of the late, lamented Florida Stage unveils his new stage venture, The Theatre at Arts Garage in Delray Beach, which hopes to continue his focus on new American plays. For openers, Tyrrell is launching a Master Playwright Series. Yes, it sounds like a program that Palm Beach Dramaworks has, but the difference is Tyrrell has the clout and connections to bring the playwrights here to participate. On Tuesday, Israel Horovitz oversee a reading of his 1974 play Line, an absurdist one-act play that has become the longest-running stage piece in New York history. The cast includes Ken Kay, Kim Cozort, John Felix, Todd Allen Durkin and Ryan Didato, with the stage directions read by Horovitz.

On subsequent Tuesdays in February, the series will host John Pielmeier, William Mastrosimone and John Guare. Tickets are $15-$20 in advance, or $48-$64 for the four-reading series. For reservations, call (561) 450-6357.

Music: Elmar Oliveira is the only American violinist ever to win the gold medal at Russia’s Tchaikovsky Competition, and he was the first recipient (in 1983) of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. His recent recordings include concertos by Bach, Benjamin Lees and Ernst Bloch, and he’s also busy as a teacher at Lynn University.

This weekend, he appears in recital with the pianist Tao Lin in a program that includes the Violin Sonata of the sadly short-lived Belgian composer Guillaume Lekeu, who died in 1894 of typhoid fever, one day after his 24^th birthday. Also on the program is the bubbly Sonata No. 8 (in G, Op. 30) of Beethoven, and Ravel’s Gypsy showpiece, Tzigane.

The recital will take place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Wold Performing Arts Center on the Lynn campus. Tickets range from $20 to $35. Call 237-9000 or visit www.lynn.edu/tickets.

Greek-born violinist Areta Zhulla is now a resident of Indianapolis, where her husband plays bassoon in the symphony, but she’s steadily making her mark in New York, where she’s been a protégé of Itzhak Perlman for the past 10 years.

Zhulla, now 25, will appear with the Boca Raton Symphonia on Saturday and Sunday in the Violin Concerto (Op. 14) of Samuel Barber, one of the classics of American symphonic writing no less than a staple of the world repertory. Two conductors will handle the orchestra: Duilio Dobrin on Saturday night, and Ramon Tebar on Sunday afternoon. The program also includes the first of Haydn’s symphonies (No. 1 in D, Hob: I:1), and the second of Beethoven’s (No. 2, in D, Op. 36).

Saturday’s concert is set for 8 p.m. at the Pine Crest School in Boca Raton, and Sunday’s for 3 p.m. at the Roberts Theater on the campus of St. Andrew’s School in Boca. Tickets range fromn $35-$62. Call 376-3848 or visit www.bocasymphonia.org.

Theater: The theater event of the weekend is the debut of Parade Productions, a new company led by artistic director Kim St. Leon, which kicks off with Donald Margulies’ semi-autobiographical play Brooklyn Boy, at the Studio at Mizner Park, a flexible configuration playhouse on the site of the former International Museum of Cartoon Art. Jewish identity is often at the heart of Margulies’ work, and never more so than in the tale of Eric Weiss (played by area favorite Avi Hoffman), a struggling novelist trying to escape his roots, but who stumbles onto mainstream, best-selling success with a book about growing up Jewish in that flavorful New York borough. And just as he achieves public acclaim, his private life is crumbling into crisis. Serious stuff, but Margulies handles it with skill and not a little humor. Continuing through Feb. 12. Tickets are $30, available at www.paradeproductions.org.

Film: Ever since she starred off-Broadway in a singular play called The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs some 30 years ago, Glenn Close has been trying to get a film adaptation of it made. Not only has she succeeded at that -- no little feat -- but her performance in the title role has just earned her a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Yes, Close plays Albert, an invention of her character’s, a woman in 19^th-century Dublin at a time when job opportunities were few for women, and they certainly were not allowed to wait tables in the nicer hotels. So she disguises herself, and perhaps succeeds all too well at her gender and identity change, which becomes something of a trap for her. Close is terrific as this repressed little man, but the film is stolen out from under her by Janet McTeer -- also Oscar-nominated -- playing a house painter with his own similar secret. Opening today at several locations, including the Living Room Theaters in Boca Raton.

Dance: Liam Scarlett is the coming man in British dance, and he’s done a new work for the Miami City Ballet called Viscera. Set to the First Piano Concerto of the American composer Lowell Liebermann, the company describes it as passionate and “gut-wrenching.” Also on the program are In the Night, a Jerome Robbins ballet set to music by Chopin, and George Balanchine’s Ballet Imperial, a sumptuous evocation of Tchaikovsky. 8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 1 p.m. Sunday at the Kravis Center. Tickets start at $19. Call 877-929-7010 (MCB), the Kravis Center at 832-7469 or visit www.miamicityballet.org.

Music: One of the most important pieces of contemporary classical music in the last quarter of the last century was surely the Symphony No. 1 of John Corigliano, a 1989 paean to the friends the composer lost and was losing to the AIDS crisis. Although AIDS itself has become more manageable with contemporary drug protocols, the symphony remains a searing document, and an effective one whatever the program. It’s also very difficult to play, and the students of the Lynn Philharmonia will have a real challenge ahead of them when Albert-George Schram leads them in the symphony Saturday night and Sunday afternoon at the Wold Center for the Performing Arts. Also on the program is John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine and the golden-hued Clarinet Concerto of Mozart (in A, K. 622), played by the veteran Jon Manasse. 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday; tickets: $35-$50. Call 237-9000 or visit www.lynn.edu/tickets.

Art: The Norton Museum turns to the world of glassmaking this week, having opened three studio glass programs Wednesday. The centerpiece is an installation called One and Others, created by the Wisconsin-based artist Beth Lipman. It’s a large piece that evokes Old Master still lifes from the museum’s collections, and is on view in its European galleries.

The museum also is hosting the Hot Glass Roadshow, a touring glass studio operated by the Corning Museum of Glass. It’s a 28-foot trailer parked outside in the east courtyard the West Palm Beach museum in which glassblowers from Corning present eight public programs a day, six days a week, through March 25. (there’s an additional $3 fee to see the roadshow.)

Also, the museum has added to the festivities by offering an exhibit of glass works from its collection, which of course includes pieces by Dale Chihuly, perhaps the best-known of all glass artists working today. Other artists include William Morris and Toots Zynsky.

Admission to the museum is $12; hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Call 832-5196 or visit www.norton.org.

Dance: Dorothy Gunther Pugh founded a ballet company in her native Memphis some 25 years ago, and the 23-member troupe is now among the nation’s most highly regarded. The ballet comes to the Duncan Theatre tonight and tomorrow for a four-dance program that includes Being Here With Other People (McMahon/Beethoven), Curtain of Green (Adam/Glass), S’Epanouir (Comfort/Whalum), and In Dreams, Trey McIntyre’s paean to six songs by Roy Orbison. This is a young, athletic company, and it’s won fans all across the nation, helping Memphis become recognized in the national common wisdom for more than Beale Street and barbecue.

The company performs at 8 tonight and 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets: $37. Call 868-3309 or visit www.duncantheatre.org.

Film: Actor Michael Fassbender is everywhere this weekend, appearing in three new films, Shame, Haywire and, the best of the three, A Dangerous Method, the match-up of psychoanalysis pioneer Carl Jung (Fassbender) and his mentor. Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). They clash over the most effective way or cure the mentally unstable and have a tug-of-war over a comely, but crazy patient (Keira Knightley) who eventually becomes Jung’s lover and then his treatment colleague. The screenplay is by Christopher Hampton, based on his own stage play, and while the script is dense with therapy jargon, the dialogue is fascinating and involving. In area theaters.

Theater: Yes, the title Urinetown kept away enough theatergoers to sink this Tony Award-winning musical’s national tour, but that hardly stops West Boca’s Slow Burn Theatre Co., which jumps head first into this tongue-in-cheek show about a water shortage and a greedy corporation head who amasses a monopoly on public toilets, then charges obscenely for their use. Fortunately, there is a crusading young hero who rouses the downtrodden -- read that as “Occupy Wall Street,” even though the show dates back to 2001 -- to rebel and pee for free. The score has a Brecht-Weill tone to many numbers and the production numbers, choreographed by the company’s co-artistic director Patrick Fitzwater, are send-ups of other, more popular musicals. Opens this evening and runs through Jan. 29. Tickets available by calling 1 (866) 811-4111.

Music: A bitter strike of six months put the fate of one of the country’s best orchestras, the Detroit Symphony, temporarily in limbo until it was resolved last April.

The group’s principal cellist, Robert deMaine, is happy everyone’s back at work. “I’m glad the symphony survived mostly intact,” he said. “I hope it emerges stronger eventually, because Detroit deserves a world-class symphony orchestra.” DeMaine, 42, who gave a memorable two-concert survey of the complete Beethoven works for cello and piano at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boca Raton a couple seasons back, reunites this Sunday afternoon with his partner in that series, pianist Heather Coltman.

Coltman, head of the music department at Florida Atlantic University and interim dean of its College of Arts and Letters, will accompany deMaine in the Sonata No. 1 (in E minor, Op. 38) of Brahms, the Fantasy Pieces (Op. 73) of Schumann, and the second of J.S. Bach’s three sonatas for viola da gamba (in D, BWV 1028), here played on the cello. DeMaine also will play five of his own solo Etudes-Caprices, from a set of 12 he composed in 1999.

“I compose a lot, just because I enjoy doing it. And if I deem something worthy of playing in a concert, I’ll do it,” he said.

DeMaine’s recording projects include a disc for Naxos in May of the Cello Concerto by filmdom’s John Williams, which will be recorded with the DSO and conductor Leonard Slatkin. “[Williams] has revised the concerto for this particular event,” deMaine said. “He’s actually made the solo part considerably more difficult.” The recital is set for 3 p.m. Sunday at the University Theatre on the campus of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Suggested donation is $10 at the door. Call 297-3853 for more information.

The stars will be out in force tonight and Sunday afternoon to celebrate Palm Beach Opera’s 50^th anniversary. Renowned baritone Sherrill Milnes, who just turned 77, will be the host for the program, which features Denyce Graves-Montgomery, Ruth Ann Swenson, Lauren McNeese, Brandon Jovanovich, Sarah Joy Miller, Attala Ayan and Daniel Sutin.

The bill of fare features selections right out of the Big Book of Favorite Operas: La Traviata, Aida, La Boheme, Carmen and Die Fledermaus, and will be accompanied by Bruno Aprea and the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra.

Milnes, a Palm Harbor resident who was an artistic adviser at Opera Tampa for four years with his wife, soprano Maria Zouves, said tough times are especially hard on artistic organizations. Over the past month, Boston Lyric Opera and San Antonio Opera have closed down, and New York’s City Opera is in the middle of difficult union negotiations that have forced the company to cut performances.

“Whenever there’s a recession, they get hit hard. They all get clobbered,” he said.

But Milnes, who founded an opera-training program called VoiceExperience in 2000, says the art form itself may be doing better in the United States. “I think there is renewed interest in opera. We Americans are slowly getting over our cultural inferiority complex,” he said.

The gala concerts are set for 7 tonight and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets start at $20. Call 832-7469, 833-7888 or visit www.pbopera.org.

Theater: Since the vacuum created by the demise of Florida Stage, the Caldwell Theatre has become the place to go for cutting edge theater in Palm Beach County. Artistic director Clive Cholerton has shaken the cobwebs off this Boca Raton playhouse while still bringing its audience locally produced versions of plays acclaimed in New York. But who else would bring area theatergoers a thought-provoking, bone-crunching work like Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, a recent Pulitzer Prize finalist which speaks to America’s place in global politics, as seem through the metaphoric prism of professional wrestling. If this bold choice succeeds, the Caldwell could gain a new young audience, without losing too many of its longtime subscribers. Opening this weekend and continuing through Feb. 12. Call (561) 241-7432 for tickets.

Film: The word of the week is ‘‘uncanny,” and it refers to the performance of Meryl Streep as England’s Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister of that nation. Just when we were convinced that the actress was a dead ringer for chef Julia Child (in Julie & Julia), she completely changes her voice, her look and her mannerisms and nails the persona of the steel-hided Maggie in The Iron Lady. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd (who has zoomed up the filmmaking learning curve since working with Streep on Mamma Mia!), the movie begins with Thatcher in dementia-riddled old age, then flashes back to her entry into politics and her rise to the top, incurring the wrath of the left along the way. The film falls into the biopic trap of trying to cover too much and spreading itself too thin, but Streep is a marvel. Opening in area theaters today.

Music: Classical music fans have a wealth of premieres to consider this weekend, all three by composers with strong local ties.

Kenneth Fuchs, who teaches at the University of Connecticut and grew up in Fort Lauderdale, introduces his String Quartet No. 5 (American) with the Delray String Quartet this Sunday afternoon. The Delray, which played Fuchs’ Fourth Quartet last season, will record the new piece for a Naxos disc of Fuchs’ chamber music to be released later this year. The score shows the work to be a kind of populist-minimalist piece, with outer movements in A major and the inner ones suggesting D minor. Everything is built out of what Fuchs calls the “American theme,” which appears at the very beginning and can be heard in various forms throughout the half-hour work.

Having premiered the Third Quartet of Thomas Sleeper a few seasons back, it’s good to see the Delrays staying in the business of performing brand-new music. This promises to be a significant premiere of a strong piece of music, and it will be heard three times, beginning at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Colony Hotel in Delray Beach (the other performances are on Jan. 20 in Fort Lauderdale and Jan. 22 in Coconut Grove). Other works on the program include the Quartet No. 52 (in E-flat, Op. 64, No. 6) of Haydn, the Quartettsatz (in C minor, D. 703) of Schubert, and music from George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess. Tickets are $35. Call 213-4138 or visit www.delraystringquartet.org.

The Boca Symphonia introduces its first of two Saturday night concerts this weekend, and gives the world premiere of Five Essays on One Theme, by Marshall Turkin, a former orchestra executive who helped found the Symphonia. Turkin, 85, returned to composing only in 2010, after a 50-year hiatus while he headed the Pittsburgh and Detroit orchestras and ran the Blossom (Cleveland) and Ravinia (Chicago) summer music festivals. Inspired by a visit to a retired composer, the Northwestern-trained ex-U.S. Navy arranger unearthed a theme from a 1954 piano piece for his Essays, which are written in a tonal Americanist style from the mid-20^th century. Turkin plans to keep writing, and his Boca Fest Overture, also newly composed, debuts March 14 with the Lynn Philharmonia at the Festival of the Arts Boca.

Arthur Fagen leads this weekend’s concerts, which feature the Russian-born pianist Alex Kobrin, a Tchaikovsky Competition gold medalist, in the Beethoven Fourth Concerto (in G, Op. 58). The orchestra also will play the Scottish Symphony (No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56) of Mendelssohn. Concerts are 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the Roberts Theater on the campus of St. Andrew’s School in Boca Raton. Tickets: $30-$50. Call 376-3848 or visit www.bocasymphonia.org.

Finally, there is Duncan Celebration, a brief fanfare for brass quintet by David Gibble, longtime professor of music and jazz band director at Palm Beach State College. Gibble wrote it at the request of the Boston Brass, which is celebrating its 25^th anniversary by commissioning 25 fanfares in some of the cities where it is concertizing. Gibble, 52, a trumpeter and graduate of the renowned jazz studies program at what is now the University of North Texas, said he drew on the fanfare in Paul Dukas’ La Peri for a model, and named the work in honor of the Duncan Theatre, which also is celebrating its 25^th anniversary this year.

Boston Brass also has programmed pieces by Ginastera, Kabalevsky, Piazzolla and de Falla for this Saturday night’s concert, as well as a collection of jazz and theater songs including Gershwin’s Strike Up the Band and Benny Golson’s I Remember Clifford. The concert is set for 8 p.m. Saturday at the Duncan Theatre. Tickets are $25. Call 868-3309 or visit www.duncantheatre.org.

Also this weekend, the very fine Canadian pianist Jon Kimura Parker is in residence at Lynn University. Parker has had a long and distinguished career, and this weekend he’s conducting master classes at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday at the Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall and giving a recital of Russian music Sunday afternoon. The master classes, which are free and open to the public, will feature students in music including the Second Sonatas of Shostakovich and Scriabin, and the odd but lovely Sonata No. 24 (in F-sharp, Op. 78) of Beethoven.

For his recital program, Parker will play the Pictures at an Exhibition of Mussorgsky, and his own arrangement of the Petrouchka ballet suite by Stravinsky. Also on the program are the celebrated Prelude in G minor (Op. 23, No. 5) of Rachmaninov and the Sonata No. 3 (in A minor, Op. 29, From Old Notebooks) by Prokofiev. He’ll play all these on a special Yamaha concert grand being brought in for the performance by Kretzer Pianos of Jupiter. Tickets for the 4 p.m. recital at Lynn’s Wold Performing Arts Center range from $20-$35. Call 237-9000 or visit www.lynn.edu/tickets.

And in addition, Japanese-born violinist Junko Ohtsu presents a program devoted to music of women composers Sunday afternoon at the Norton Gallery of Art. Ohtsu’s program features music by the French composer Lili Boulanger, English composer Rebecca Clarke (Three Irish Songs for soprano and violin), and the Boston Classicist Amy Beach (Romance, for violin and piano). Music by three living women composers also is on the program, including the Piano Trio of 2010 Pulitzer winner Jennifer Higdon, three of the Songs of No Return by the Russian-born pianist and composer Lera Auerbach, and the Romance for violin and piano of Miami’s own Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, also a Pulitzer winner and a part-time resident of Pompano Beach.

Ohtsu said the program was compiled at the Norton’s request as a companion to its current exhibition of paintings by the young British artist Jenny Saville. “This is the first time I’ve planned a concert with all-women composers,” Ohtsu said. “In general, I don’t like the idea of gender as a subject. But I looked into it, and I found so many wonderful, talented composers.” Ohtsu will be joined by pianist Colette Valentine, cellist Evelyn Elsing and soprano Sarah Moulton Faux for the concert, which is set for 3 p.m. Tickets are $5, and available at the visitor’s desk. Call 832-5196 for more information.

Theater: It is not easy getting attention for a play when the mainstream media will not even print the title, but Stephen Adly Guirgis’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat (C’mon, Wheel of Fortune fans, you can figure it out) managed to eke out a respectable run on Broadway last season and be nominated for Best Play.

It is described as a high-octane verbal cage match about love, fidelity and misplaced haberdashery, the story of a former drug dealer who gets released from prison, returns to his girlfriend’s apartment, discovers a hat there and flies into a rage accusing her of being unfaithful to him. Yes, it sounds right up director Joseph Adler’s alley. It opens this weekend at GableStage in Coral Gables, running through Feb. 5. Call (305) 445-1119 for tickets. – H. Erstein

Film: Ian Fleming’s James Bond led the pack among gadget-toting, sexually active secret agents since the early 1960s, but if you wanted a more authentic look at the British spy game, you gravitated to the novels of John Le Carré and his understated MI-6 agent, George Smiley.

In 1979, the BBC brought Smiley to the small screen with Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, a six-hour miniseries starring Alec Guinness, about rooting out a mole -- a double agent -- at spy headquarters. Now comes the same story, compressed into a two-hour feature film, starring the equally remarkable Gary Oldman (The Contender, Hannibal), a chameleon-like actor usually relegated to supporting roles.

Like the book, the film is slow, methodical and cerebral, so lean in and concentrate, but how refreshing to encounter a movie that dares to be smart instead of purposely dumbed down. Opening in area theaters today. – H. Erstein

Music: This is a big weekend, and coming week, for classical music, and it begins tonight with the first of Palm Beach Opera’s One Opera in One Hour workshop productions populated by the company’s Young Artist crew. The abridged opera tonight is Semele, George Frideric Handel’s oratorio-turned-opera about Semele, daughter of King Cadmus, who’s having a passionate affair with a married god, Jupiter, who happens to be the boss of all of them. The score is full of invention, with great tunes like Myself I Shall Adore, Endless Pleasure, Endless Love, and Where’er You Walk. Canadian soprano Emily Duncan-Brown sings Semele, and the Mexican tenor Evanivaldo Correa is Jupiter. Canadian mezzo Shirin Eskandani, who sang Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly last month, sings Juno, Jupiter’s wife. Admission to the 8 p.m. show at CityPlace’s Harriet Himmel Theater is free, with $15 reserved seats also available. Call 833-7888 or visit www.pbopera.org for more information.

Lindsay Garritson is most drawn to the composers and performers of the Russian school, but she still has room on her dance card for a concerto by a Frenchman. “The second movement of the concerto is really light and happy, and it’s a lot of fun to play and to listen to,” said Garritson, who’s playing the solo part of the Piano Concerto No. 2 (in G minor, Op. 22) of Camille Saint-Saens with the Atlantic Classical Orchestra at Stuart’s Lyric Theatre this afternoon and evening.

“The first movement sounds almost as if it were inspired the organ. It’s got a grandiose feeling to it,” she added. The Saint-Saens concerto is on a program with the Mendelssohn Italian Symphony (No. 4 in A, Op. 90), and a rarely heard symphony by a teenage Mozart (No. 28 in C, K. 200). Stewart Robertson, music director of the ACO, will conduct.

Garritson, 24, who’s just completed her master’s degree at the Yale School of Music, is sticking around in New Haven as a staff accompanist for the music school. Raised in St. Louis, she attended Principia College in Illinois before heading east to Yale, where she studied with Boris Berman. She now considers Stuart home, her mother having moved to Martin County in 2003.

Also a violinist, Garritson has won numerous prizes and competitions, including a first-place win in 2010 at the summer Chopin Competition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and this past June, a second-place win at the Montreal International Music Competition, where she tackled another big Concerto No. 2 (also in G minor), this one by Sergei Prokofiev. “It’s really great to be around other pianists your age who are so accomplished and at such a high level,” Garritson said. “It was an intense experience.”

The ACO concerts are set for 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. today at the Lyric. Tickets are $55 (4 p.m.) and $60 (8 p.m.); call 772-286-7827. – G. Stepanich

Also, two chamber music series get under way in the next few days. At the Four Arts on Sunday, the Brentano String Quartet, now celebrating its 20^th year, will play the String Quartet of Debussy, Schubert’s Quartettsatz (in C minor, D. 703), and the Quartet No. 13 (in B-flat, Op. 130) of Beethoven. 3 p.m. at the Society’s Gubelmann Auditorium. Tickets: $15. Call 655-7226 or visit www.fourarts.org.

And the Flagler Museum opens its five-concert chamber music series this coming Tuesday night with the Adaskin String Trio. The Canadian threesome will play string trios by Miklos Rosza (the future film composer; this is his Op. 1), Erno von Dohnanyi (Serenade, Op. 10), Haydn (one of the many trios for the obsolete baryton he was obliged to write; this one is No. 65 in G), and a young Beethoven (No. 4 in C minor, Op. 9, No. 3). The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Tickets are $60. Call 655-2833 or visit www.flaglermuseum.us.

Meanwhile, Sunday also brings the American Brass Quintet to Lynn University, where it plays music by Josquin des Prez, Erasmus Widmann, Ludwig Maurer, Osvaldo Lacerda and Joan Tower. They’ll also play American composer Trevor Gureckis’s Fixated Nights, which was written for the group. 4 p.m., Wold Performing Arts Center. Tickets: $20-$35. Call 237-9000 or visit www.lynn.edu/tickets.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Delray Beach, in tandem with the Miami Bach Society brings Trefoil, countertenor Drew Minter’s medieval-music trio, to the church on Sunday for a special last look at the Christmas season. The group will perform Christo e Nato (Christ Is Born), a collection of mostly anonymous music gathered in Florence from the 13^th through the 15^th centuries. The recent cold snap has reminded us that this is still the season, and here’s a good way to finally let go of a time of year we all cherish. 3 p.m., St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Tickets: $15-$20, call 278-6003.