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now-sun. 10 .June in Buffalo Festival - Featured composers to include David Felder, John Harbison, Steve Reich and Roger Reynolds. Performers to include The Slee Sinfonietta, The New York Virtuoso Singers (Harold Rosenbaum, music director), Rochester-based Music Nova (Brad Lubman, conductor), Arditti String Quartet, Neue Vokalsolisten and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. The Arditti String Quartet will perform works of June in Buffalo participants starting at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, June 7 at Baird Recital Hall. The Red fish Blue fish Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Steve Schick will perform pieces of faculty and June in Buffalo participants at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 7 at the Center for the Arts Drama Theatre. The program continues at 8 p.m. Saturday, June 9 at Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall with chamber music featuring Lucy Shelton and Nicholas Isherwood. The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Robert Franz, will perform faculty works starting at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 10 at Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall. Call 645-2921 or visit www.music.buffalo.edu/juneinbuffalo for more information. sun. 10 .Cheektowaga Community Symphony - The Cheektowaga Community Symphony Orchestra presents an evening of music at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 10. Pre-concert features the Cheektowaga Central High School Jazz Ensemble under the baton of Shawn Rydzik. This will be followed with a 7:45 p.m. concert by the CCSO with fireworks and cannon at Cheektowaga Town Park Outdoor Theater, Harlem Road (rain location at the Cheektowaga Town Park Ice Rink). Call 444-8693 or visit www.cheektowagasymphony.org for more information.

fri. 8 & sat. 9 .A Motown Salute with The Contours - The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of resident conductor Robert Franz, presents The Contours featuring Sylvester Potts in this season's pops series finale. Performing a hit parade of Motown classics from The Temptations, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and many others, the Contours perform songs that have influenced several generations of music lovers at 8 p.m. Friday, June 8 and Saturday, June 9 at Kleinhans Music Hall, 71 Symphony Circle, Buffalo. Call 838-2383 or visit www.bflochambermusic.org for more information.