FRIDAY JUNE 18

LAKE UNION CIVIC ORCHESTRA

This community orchestra performs two of Stravinsky's neo-Classical delicacies, two Suites for Small Orchestra, both of which are perfumed with French music-hall tunes, snippets of Petrushka, and astringently sentimental melodies. Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, AKA the "Scottish," and Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Janice Weber as the soloist, round out the program. Town Hall, Eighth Ave and Seneca St, 343-5826, 7:30 pm, $8/14.

STEVE SMITH & BUDDY'S BUDDIES

Led by longtime Buddy Rich alumni Steve Marcus (tenor sax) and Andy Fusco (alto sax), this quintet aptly honors jazz drummer and bandleader Buddy Rich with blunt, swinging meat-and-potatoes arrangements. Also Sat June 19. The Triple Door, 216 Union St, 838-4333, 8 pm, $25.

RIK WRIGHT'S ZEN TORNADO

It's as if someone decided to couple the angular, yet ambling, arrangements of the Mahavishnu Orchestra with the loose, rackety drumming of Robert Wyatt-era Soft Machine. With Seattle bass stalwart James Whiton and versatile reedman James DeJoie. Norm's, 460 N 36th St, 547-1417, 9 pm, free.

SATURDAY JUNE 19

MASSES OF MOZART & HAYDN

The Seattle First Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir sings two short masses of Mozart and Haydn scored for strings, chorus, soloists, and organ. Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave, 325-6051, 7:30 pm, free-will donation.

VOLUTE

Volute sent me a CD packaged in a hand-sewn sleeve cut from a paper bag. Each track, a live freely improvised duet between double bassist Nathan Levine and violinist Tom Swafford, is titled "misc...." and is anything but miscellaneous, at times verging on the sublime. Volute shares the bill with Murderous Copulation of Birds, led by alto saxophonist Gregory Reynolds and vocalist Cristin Miller. Polestar Music Gallery, 1412 18th Ave at E Union St, 329-4224, 8 pm, $6.

SUNDAY JUNE 20

SORELLE

A deft blend of older, pre-1980 contemporary music and recently composed works makes Sorelle's programs among the most interesting in town. Guest percussionist Gunnar Folsom teams up with this probing quartet for Peter Maxwell Davies' Anakreontika, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Lukas Foss, and Sofia Gubaidulina's Zwei Lieder nach Deutschen Volksdichtungen. Also two pieces by locals, Bern Herbolsheimer's Albina and Ben Houge's Mobile 1. Seattle Art Museum, 100 University St, 985-7003, 3 pm, $10/$15.

PROSPETTIVA PLURAL XV

Three master alto saxophonists each serve up a 30-minute solo set: San Francisco-based Phillip Greenlief, ICP Orchestra alum and Myra Melford compadre Michael Moore, and Wally Shoup, an anchor of Seattle's free-improvising scene. At the recent Matthew Sperry memorial concert, I was transfixed by Shoup's touching ballad "Joyful Mourn." CoCA, 410 Dexter Ave N, 728-1980, 4 pm, $8 suggested donation.

MONDAY JUNE 21

AMARCORD

Pianist Amy Rubin joins this wind quintet for the final Music of Our Time concert of the season. Together, they sort through a slew of contemporary music: Derek Bermel's Wanderings, John Harbison's Quintet for Winds, Steven Stucky's Serenade, and Rubin's La Loba. Recital Hall at Benaroya, Third Ave and Union St, 215-4747, 7:30 pm, $12/$22.