Orchestrating love
The Cadenza orchestra in Santa Cruz will perform the U.S. premiere of “Canarian Vespers,” a new work by Haifa Symphony Orchestra composer and conductor Noam Sheriff. The recipient of the 2011 Israel Prize for music, he burst onto the music scene in 1957 when Leonard Bernstein, conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, chose Sheriff’s “Festival Prelude” to open the Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv. The Santa Cruz program, “Love and Romance,” includes selections by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.
7 p.m. Sunday, May 27 at First Congregational Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz. $15-$25. www.scmusic.org
sunday/20
“Music in the Mishkan.” Chamber music performances of Ernest Bloch, Joachim Turina and Antonin Dvorak. At Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, 290 Dolores St., S.F. 4 p.m. $15-$20. www.shaarzahav.org.
wednesday/30
Soulfarm. Performance by Israeli-American jam band founded by Grammy Award–winning guitarist C Lanzbom. At Congregation Netivot Shalom, 1316 University Ave., Berkeley. 7 p.m. $6-$10. www. masorticenter.blogspot.com.