Music: the week ahead

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Johannes Debus, music director of the Canadian Opera Company, replaces Sir Colin Davis as conductor of this week’s program. He will lead Haydn’s Symphony No. 97 as well as Mozart’s Symphony No. 32 and Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, with BSO principal clarinetist William R. Hudgins as soloist. April 7-12, $29-$108, Symphony Hall, 617-266-1200, www.bso.org. BSO assistant principal oboe Keisuke Wakao (pictured) has also organized a benefit concert with colleagues — in works by Handel, Loeffler, and Beethoven — to aid relief efforts in Japan. April 10, 4 p.m. Church of the Redeemer, 379 Hammond St., Chestnut Hill. $25. 617-566-7679. (Betsy Bassett)

April 7, 2011

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POP & ROCK

EZRA FURMAN & THE HARPOONS The former Boston-based indie pop-folkie, now living in Chicago, heads back to town with his band in tow, to preview tunes from their forthcoming album, “Mysterious Power.’’ The Apache Relay and Tristen handle the opening duties. April 7, 9 p.m. Tickets: $12. Great Scott. 866-468-7619, www.ticketweb.com

“UK ZERO-11’’ TOUR FEATURING EDDIE JOBSON AND JOHN WETTON Jobson and Wetton have impressive classic and prog-rock bona fides, claiming membership between them in King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Roxy Music, Asia, and Frank Zappa’s band. They reconvene their late ’70s, early ’80s outfit UK sans fellow members Bill Bruford and Allan Holdsworth but with the gifted Marco Minneman and Alex Machacek in their stead. April 8, 8 p.m. Tickets: $63-$103. Regent Theatre. 781-646-4849, www.regenttheatre.com

OLD 97s Touring behind the splendid late 2010 release “The Grand Theatre, Vol. 1’’ the Texas alt-country rockers return to the Hub to make boots stomp and hearts break, sometimes simultaneously. Make sure to get there early enough to catch Teddy Thompson, son of Richard and Linda, whose new album, “Bella,’’ is one of the best of the year so far. April 8, 5:30 p.m. Tickets: $20. Royale. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com

TORO Y MOI It sounds like a band name but Toro Y Moi is another act in the long tradition of one-man’s-vision-type affairs. That Chaz Bundick’s vision incorporates a catholicity of sounds — disco, pop, indie rock, lo-fi ambiance, electro blips and bleeps — that fit invitingly together has drawn praise for his latest release, “Underneath the Pine.’’ April 9, 9 p.m. Tickets: $12. Brighton Music Hall. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com

SARAH RODMAN FOLK, WORLD & COUNTRY

ALASDAIR FRASER & NATALIE HAAS They named their 2004 album after the sensations their music imparts: ‘‘Fire & Grace.’’ Fraser’s stealth fiddle playing is often a stark contrast to the elegant tones Haas conjures on her cello; together they explore a vast world of music, from waltzes to traditional tunes from Fraser’s native Scotland. Matt and Shannon Heaton, another fine Celtic duo, open the show. April 8, 8 p.m. Tickets: $32. First Parish Church, 1 Church St., Cambridge. 978-462-9630, www.mktix.com/heptunes

JUANES On his latest album, ‘‘P.A.R.C.E.,’’ this Colombian rock star worked with British producer Stephen Lipson, whose credits include Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones. You hear some of those influences on Juanes’s new album, which streamlines the songs to better frame the singer-songwriter’s messages of social justice and personal redemption. Juanes’s concerts around here are few but always a spectacle. April 9, 8 p.m. Tickets: $19.50-$200. Lynn Auditorium, 3 City Hall Square, Lynn. 781-581-2971, www.lynnauditorium.com

STRETCH DAWRSON ‘‘Scotland’s King of Western Swing’’ has a funny ring to it, but you’ll be a believer once you hear this Scottish singer revive the music made famous by Bob Wills and Spade Cooley. Presented by WMFO’s DJ Easy Ed, the all-ages show will feature Rich Dubois of local honky-tonk band the Spurs backing Dawrson on fiddle. April 10, 4:30 p.m. Tickets: $4, $2 for kids. Midway Cafe, 3496 Washington St., Jamaica Plain. 617-524-9038, www.midwaycafe.com

CHARLIE PARR Gloriously reminiscent of the late Dave Van Ronk, to whom Greg Brown once compared him, Parr summons the ghosts of the great country-blues shouters and guitarists who came before him. The Minnesota-bred singer-songwriter even has a motto: ‘‘One man. One guitar. One foot in the grave.’’ April 10, 9:05 p.m. Tickets: $10. T.T. the Bear’s. 617-492-2327, www.ticketweb.com

JAMES REED

JAZZ, BLUES & CABARET

YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD SAXOPHONE QUARTET Boston’s own retort to the World Saxophone Quartet celebrates its 31st anniversary with a concert reuniting current and past members to play new pieces as well as musical blasts from years past. April 8, 8 p.m. Tickets: $10. First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St., Cambridge. www.firstchurchcambridge.org

BOSTON CABARET SPRING FESTIVAL The Boston Association of Cabaret Artists presents its 13th annual celebration: four shows over two nights featuring a cavalcade of cabaret performers telling their stories and singing Great American Songbook and Broadway standards, as well as occasional originals. April 8 and 9 at 7 and 9:15 p.m. Tickets: $15. Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., Cambridge. 617-577-1400, www.cmacusa.org

40 YEARS OF JAZZ AT HARVARD The culminating concert of a weeklong celebration features the Harvard Jazz Bands and an all-star group of returning Artists in Residence: Benny Golson, Brian Lynch, Eddie Palmieri, Cecil McBee, and Roy Haynes as well as Harvard grad Don Braden (’85). April 9, 8 p.m. Tickets: $8-$15. Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge. 617-496-2222, www.boxoffice.harvard.edu

DWIGHT & NICOLE AND THE BOSTON HORNS BIG BAND An evening of danceable jazz, blues, and soul at the Peabody Essex Museum, featuring performances by the sultry-voiced singer and her adroit guitar accompanist and the rambunctious, roaring Boston Horns Big Band, with the proceeds to benefit the nonprofit Salem Jazz and Soul Festival. April 9, 8 p.m. Tickets: $45-$50. Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex St., East India Square, Salem. 978-745-9500, www.pem.org

KEVIN LOWENTHAL

CLASSICAL

CHIARA QUARTET The ensemble’s Blodgett residency at Harvard continues with the premiere of James Yannatos’s String Quartet No. 3 alongside performances of Adam Roberts’s “Tangled Symmetries’’ and Brahms’s String Quartet No. 1. April 8, 8 p.m. Free but passes are required. Paine Concert Hall, Harvard University. 617-496-2222, www.music.fas.harvard.edu/calendar.html

ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC Yuri Termirkanov leads the storied ensemble in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture and Brahms’s Symphony No. 4. Alisa Weilerstein is the soloist in Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. April 10, 3 p.m. Symphony Hall. $40-$95. 617-482-6661, www.celebrityseries.org

BOSTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY This week’s BCMS players — Fenwick Smith, Harumi Rhodes, Marcus Thompson, Astrid Schween, Randall Hodgkinson, and Jessica Zhou — take on works by Mozart, Saint-Saens, Chausson, and the Cambridge-based composer Keeril Makan. April 10, 7:30 p.m. Sanders Theatre. 617-349-0086, www.bostonchambermusic.org

JEREMY EICHLER