Gold rush 2005 Cliburn gold winner Alexander Kobrin will attempt to melt his "Iceman" image this weekend with three performances of Chopin's romantic First Piano Concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony. Music Director Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducts the program, which also features Elgar's popular Enigma Variations , in honor of the English composer's 150th birth anniversary. -- Matthew Erikson Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra 7:30 p.
m. Friday, 8 p.m.
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday Bass Hall, Fort Worth $15-$76 817-665-6000; www.
fwsymphony.org Texas Ballet Theater Ballet galas are notoriously eclectic affairs. The one offered this weekend by the Fort Worth dance company is no exception.
A new work set to the music of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, several pas de deux and a Liza Minnelli tribute are among the offerings. 7 p.m.
Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.
m. Sunday at the Majestic Theatre, 1925 Elm St., Dallas.
$18-$74. 877-828-9200; www.texasballettheater.
org . -- Matthew Erikson Aurora Ephemerala Hip Pocket Theatre's Johnny Simons revisits certain themes, and one of them is the fascination with the otherworldly. This season-closing play deals with a strange spacecraft that lands in a small Texas town in the late 1800s.
As always, the final Saturday performance will be followed by a Halloween party, so come in costume, spacey or otherwise. 8:15 p.m.
Fridays-Sundays through Oct. 27 at Silver Creek Amphitheatre, 1950 Silver Creek Road, Fort Worth. $15 Fridays and Saturdays, $10 Sundays and $5 on opening night (this Friday).
817-246-9775; www.hippocket.org .
-- Mark Lowry Schola Cantorum The Fort Worth choral society kicks off its 45th anniversary year with works by Haydn (the Lord Nelson Mass ) and Mozart (the Vespers and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik ). Donald Bailey conducts the 80-person chorus, soloists and organ accompaniment by Dong-Ill Shinn. 7:30 p.
m. Sunday at Ed Landreth Auditorium, Texas Christian University. $18-$30.
817-927-2114; www.scholatexas.com .
The Mystery of Irma Vep Amphibian Stage Productions' popular staged reading series expands to two performances for this one, Charles Ludlam's Ridiculous classic in which two actors play multiple roles in this over-the-top satire of Victorian melodrama and Hitchcockian thrillers. Noon Sunday and 7 p.m.
Monday at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St., Fort Worth. $10.
817-923-3012; www.amphibianproductions.org .
Dallas Chamber Music Society Perhaps the most respected string quartet playing right now, the Emerson String Quartet, performs works by Beethoven and Shostakovich for the season-opening concert of the Dallas Chamber Music Society. 8 p.m.
Monday at Southern Methodist University's Caruth Auditorium, Dallas. $35. 972-392-3267; www.
dallaschambermusic.org .
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