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SPECIAL EVENTS

EXPLOSION OF THE SENSES

The Newport Beach Bacchus Society will hold the inaugural

Explosion of the Senses benefit Saturday, with live music, wine,

dining and an art auction. The event will be a fundraiser for

multiple Orange County nonprofit groups. The 7 to 11:30 p.m. event will be at Park Prive, 1570 Scenic Ave., Costa Mesa. Admission will

cost $45 to $125. Information: https://www.bacchussociety.org.

CLAY AIKEN

Clay Aiken will perform Christmas music at an 8 p.m. concert Nov.

26 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center

Drive, Costa Mesa. Tickets will cost $52 to $87. Information: (714)

556-2787.

MUSIC

KREMERATA BALTICA

Kremerata Baltica, led by artistic director and violin soloist

Gidon Kremer, will perform at 7:30 p.m. today at the Orange County

Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Selections

include the Shostakovich Chamber Symphony, Op. 110a; Schubert’s Quartet No. 15 in G, D887 for strings and a new work by Russian

composer Leonid Desyatnikov. Tickets are $76 and can be purchased

through (714) 556-2787 or https://www.ocpac.org. Information: (714)

755-0236.

LATINAS! MUSICAL DIVAS OF LATIN AMERICA

Colombia’s Toto la Momposina, Chile’s Mariana Montalvo and

Brazil’s Belo Velloso will perform in an 8 p.m. concert, “Latinas!

Musical Divas of Latin America.” The Saturday concert is held at the

Irvine Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus Drive, Irvine. Tickets are $27

and $32. Full-time students can purchase half-price tickets at the

box office with valid ID. Information: (949) 854-4646 or

https://www.thebarclay.org.

FACULTY DANCE CONCERT

Orange Coast College’s annual faculty dance concert will begin at

8 p.m. Saturday in the Robert B. Moore Theatre, Orange Coast College,

2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa. Advance tickets will cost $9, the

price at the door will be $13. Information: (714) 432-5880.

WARSAW PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra will perform Penderecki’s

“Polymorphia” and Chopin’s “Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11”

at 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday at the Barclay Theatre, 4242 Campus

Drive, Irvine. Tickets are $65. Information: (949) 553-2422.

THE ENGLISH CONCERT WITH ANDREW MANZE

Period instrument group The English Concert and its violinist,

Andrew Manze, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Orange County

Performing Arts Center, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Tickets

are $76. Information: (714) 755-0236.

BE-BOP CONCERT

Trumpet player Jack Sheldon, billed as an originator of West Coast

be-bop, will perform in two concerts that will begin at 7:30 and 9:30

p.m. on Nov. 12 and 13 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center,

600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. For tickets and more information,

call (714) 556-2787.

GUITAR ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

The Orange Coast College Guitar Ensemble, a group of more than 20

musicians, will perform classical works spanning six centuries of

music. The 8 p.m. performance will be Nov. 13 at the Orange Coast

College Fine Arts Recital Hall, 2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa.

Tickets will cost $7. Information: (714) 432-5880.

WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT

Orchestral works written for wind instruments will be performed at

a 3 p.m. show Nov. 14 at the Robert B. Moore Theatre at Orange Coast

College, 2701 Fairview Road, Costa Mesa. Tickets will cost $7.

Information: (7140 432-5880.

“SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME”

Singer Lorna Luft will perform many of the songs made famous by

her mother, Judy Garland. The 7:30 p.m. concert will be performed

Nov. 16 through Nov. 20 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center,

600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Information: (714) 556-2787 or

https://www.ocpac.org.

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

The Orange Coast College Symphony Orchestra will perform works by

Edvard Grieg and Gustav Mahler. The 8 p.m. concert will be Nov. 20 at

the Robert B. Moore Theatre, Orange Coast College, 2701 Fairview

Road, Costa Mesa. Advance tickets will cost $8, the price at the door

will be $10. Information: (714) 432-5880.