BY RICK PENDER

I could fill this column with news of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The guys at Music Hall crank out tunes and programs all the time. But they're not the only Classical music game in town. For instance, on Sunday you can hear CINCINNATI BAROQUE, the Tristate's newest chamber music ensemble, when they present Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers. This is a big deal because the work's been around for almost 400 years, but it's just now getting its local professional premiere. Twenty singers and a small orchestra will perform this work from the Baroque period, when it was presented at St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice, Italy. At Sunday's 3 p.m. performance you can hear striking contrasts from bombastic brasses to chants at Covington's Cathedral Basilica, another inspiring space. Cincinnati Baroque, under the direction of THOMAS JUNEAU, has big plans for the holidays, too, with two performances of Handel's Messiah -- one in Kenwood at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Dec. 6, and another at Memorial Hall in Over-the-Rhine on Dec. 7. The performance will be in the style Handel intended: 20 singers, a small orchestra and lively tempos. Info: www.CincinnatiBaroque.com or 513-351-1615 ... If you dig great voices, head to UC's College-Conservatory of Music on Saturday when the METROPOLITAN OPERA conducts its National Council District Auditions at Corbett Auditorium. Three winners will be chosen to compete at the regional level, also held at Corbett Auditorium in December. The regional winner goes on to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for the semi and final competitions. One of the judges will be STANFORD OLSEN, a CCM grad who's now a tenor at the Met and a professor at Florida State University. ... On Nov. 10 at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral you can catch the first in the series, GREAT MUSIC IN A GREAT SPACE. At 3 p.m. that Sunday, THE SIXTEEN makes its Cincinnati debut in a program of Renaissance and 20th-century choral music. You'd think there'd be 16 singers, but the mixed choir is a collection of 20 British men and women, extolled as "one of the jewels in the musical crown of Britain." Tickets: 513-421-2222.

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