At 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 30, the second season of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Series will open with a performance in Gill Chapel on the Lawrenceville campus. It is entitled “The Devil, a Phantom, and the Blues” and the artists will be Nancy Froysland Hoerl, soprano; Melissa Bohl, oboe; Kenneth Ellison, clarinet; Elissa Wagman, violin; Marjorie Selden, viola; and Donald Dolan, Suzanne Lehrer, Carmen Mateiescu, and Kathy Shanklin, piano. The Kaleidoscope Chamber Series, a Westminster Conservatory faculty series, features chamber music for mixed ensembles and compositions by Conservatory faculty members. Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for students and seniors. Rider faculty, staff and students receive one free ticket with a valid Rider University ID. They can be picked up at the Westminster box office weekdays between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. or reserved by calling (609) 921-2663.

The Westminster Community Orchestra, conducted by Ruth Ochs, will present its first concert of the 2005-2006 season on Sunday, October 30, 2005 at 4 p.m. in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the campus of Princeton University. The program will include Aram Khatchaturian’s Masquerade Suite, Mozart’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in E-flat, K. 365, featuring Phyllis Alpert Lehrer and Ena Bronstein Barton; Anatoly Lyadov’s Baba Yaga, and Aaron Copland’s Billy the Kid. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. They can be reserved by calling the Richardson box office at (609) 258-5000.

On Sunday, October 30 at 7 p.m. Westminster Kantorei, conducted by Andrew Megill, will present its first program this season at Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, 213 W. 82nd Street in New York City, a venue ideally suited for the concert repertoire. The program will include Dietrich Buxtehude’s Membra Jesu Nostri, a cycle of seven brief cantatas so renowned in their time that Bach walked 300 miles to hear them performed, as well as Cantata 4 of J.S. Bach, Christ lag in Todesbanden and Fürwahr, er trug unsere Krankheit from Hugo Distler’s Geistliche Chormusik, Op. 12, a work heavily influenced in music and spirit by the musical traditions of Bach and Buxtehude. Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for students and seniors and will be sold at the door. For information call the church at (212) 787-0634.

Westminster Opera Theater will present "Albert Herring" by Benjamin Britten Thursday, November 3 through Saturday, November 5 at 8 p.m., as well as a matinee performance on Sunday, November 6 at 3 p.m. All performances will take place in The Playhouse on the Westminster campus. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. Rider University faculty, staff and students receive one free ticket for each performance with a valid Rider University ID. They can be picked up at the Westminster box office weekdays between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. or reserved by calling (609) 921-2663.