Two festivals get underway this week among several interesting individual events on Northeast Ohio’s classical music calendar.

- On Thursday at 7:30, the Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival opens with a concert by Hao Yang and soprano Helen Zhibing Huang. Click here to visit the Festival website for details about the numerous events scheduled for this weekend, culminating in the Final Round of the James Stroud Youth Competition on Sunday evening at 6:30.

- Jinjoo Cho’s ENCORE festival of music and ideas has scheduled three events this week: Drum Beats and Bugles Blow, an outdoor concert of Baroque music on Friday at 7:30 at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center in Peninsula, By Leaps and Bounds featuring saxophonist Nick Zoulek and dancer Eunson Song in a world

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