This week does not have one particular concert that stands out as the most exciting, but there are events of every kind that merit your attention. The problem will be choosing what to attend.

CHORAL:
>> Visiting Washington this week are the Tallis Scholars (pictured), one of the world's foremost early music choral ensembles. They will perform masterpieces from Spain and Portugal at the Clarice Smith Center on Sunday evening (March 2, 7:30 p.m.), culminating in Victoria's six-voice Requiem Mass, one of the most gorgeous pieces ever composed. Tickets: $25 to $50.

>> Earlier on Sunday (March 2, 4 p.m.), Washington's own Cathedral Choral Society will celebrate the centennial of Washington National Cathedral by performing the world premiere of a new work by Dominick Argento called Evensong: Of Love and Angels, with soprano Elizabeth Futral. Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore will also be on the program. Tickets: $52.

INSTRUMENTAL:
>> Flutist James Galway will play a recital on Monday night (February 25, 8 p.m.), with his wife, Jeanne Galway, sponsored by Washington Performing Arts Society in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. The program includes two masterful flute sonatas of the 20th century, by Poulenc and Prokofiev, as well as Chaminade's Concertino, beloved of flutists everywhere. Tickets: $40 to $85.

>> The following evening (February 26, 7:30 p.m.), WPAS will host a recital by cellist Jian Wang at Sidney Harman Hall. The program consists of three of Bach's unaccompanied suites for cello, music widely considered to be among the best written for the instrument. Tickets: $29.

WORTH MENTION:
>> Tenor Lawrence Brownlee will give a recital on Saturday (March 1, 8 p.m.) at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington in Rockville. The program will be repeated the following Monday (March 3, 8 p.m.).

>> The Guarneri Quartet is retiring at the end of this season. Hear one of their final performances, an all-Beethoven concert on Leap Day (February 29, 8 p.m.) at the Clarice Smith Center. Tickets: $30 (students, $7).

>> Also on Leap Day (February 29, 7:30 p.m.), violist Roger Tapping and pianist Judith Gordon will give a recital at La Maison Française (4101 Reservoir Rd. NW). Tickets: $20.

>> Again on Leap Day (February 29, 8 p.m.), the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will give a screening of Charlie Chaplin's classic movie City Lights, playing a new orchestration of the original score by Chaplin himself, in the Music Center at Strathmore. Tickets: $21 to $84.

>> The Catholic University School of Music will present Ned Rorem's new opera Our Town, an adaptation of Thornton Wilder's classic play, this Thursday and Saturday (February 28 and March 1, 7:30 p.m.) at Hartke Theater on the CUA campus. You can also attend a roundtable discussion on Wednesday (February 27, 7:30 p.m.), with the composer, librettist J. D. McClatchy, and Tappan Wilder.

FREE CONCERTS:
>> On Wednesday (February 27, 12:10 p.m.), soprano Celeste Headlee and pianist Danielle DeSwert will give a free concert at the National Gallery of Art. In honor of Black History Month, the program is devoted to African-American composer William Grant Still.

>> On Thursday night (February 28, 8 p.m.) the Orion Quartet and clarinetist David Krakauer will give a free concert at the Library of Congress.

>> On Sunday (March 2, 3 p.m.), Quartetto Gelato will give a free concert at the National Academy of Sciences (2100 C St. NW).

>> Also on Sunday (March 2, 4 p.m.) the Verdehr Trio will play on the free concert series at the Phillips Collection. You still have to pay to get into the museum, as always.

>> Hear the musicians of the future on Sunday (March 2, 6 p.m.) in the NSO Young Soloists' Competition, a free concert in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.

>> Finally, on the free concert series at the National Gallery of Art (March 2, 6:30 p.m.), the National Cathedral Choir of Men and Girls will perform.

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