BY RICK PENDER

Omar Cook

If you like your Classical tunes served up with a little intimacy, check out the upcoming program by the CINCINNATI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA on Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. at Memorial Hall, repeating Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. at Xavier University's Bellarmine Chapel. CCO Music Director MISCHA SANTORA will conduct a melodic program ideal for anyone who's not attended programs like this before. It opens with the familiar strains of Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, and moves to Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto, featuring virtuoso performer ELMAR OLIVEIRA. The balance of the program is Carter's Elegy for Strings and Beethoven's Second Symphony. Come 45 minutes before the concert's start time for a pre-concert discussion with Santora and Oliveira. Tickets: 513-723-1182 ... Cincinnati's Classical music organizations are working to reach out to diverse populations. On Nov. 22, the educational outreach program of the CINCINNATI OPERA brings its fall tour of Find Your Voice, featuring ANDREA JONES and OMAR COOK, in a program sharing life stories about two singers from diverse cultural backgrounds. The program, which the opera's education director Naomi Hoyt says conveys an "enthusiastic musical message of the importance of hope, support and perseverance" will be at New Prospect Baptist Church, 1829 Elm St., Over-the-Rhine. Attendees will include kids from the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Cincinnati, and members of the church and New Wineskins Ministry of Over-the-Rhine. Admission is free, but you're urged to donate warm clothing to benefit New Wineskins Ministry. Information: 513-7445-3462 ... In a similar vein, the CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA presents its first Open Door Series on Nov. 22-23, part of a multicultural awareness program, reflecting the diverse talents of internationally recognized artists and composers. For the upcoming program, which features choral music by Bach and Poulenc, the principal soloist will be African-American soprano Janice Chandler. Roberto Porco will conduct, and the program also features the May Festival Chorus. Bach's Magnificat (a work dating from 1723) was given its American premiere in 1875 by our own May Festival, by the way. Information: 513-381-3300

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