As you know from reading last week’s Classical Music Agenda, we are at the beginning of a Mozart Year, with the 250th anniversary of the great Austrian composer’s birth approaching on January 27. If you set foot in a classical concert in the next couple months, chances are good that you will hear Mozart. Considering the number of concerts we attend, Mozart fatigue could set in early. Not to worry, as there is still enough good music to hear that is not Mozart.

AT THE SYMPHONY:
>> The National Symphony Orchestra is having a terrific season for its 75th anniversary. This Thursday to Saturday (January 19, 7 p.m.; January 20 and 21, 1:30 p.m.), the NSO will present an all-Strauss program that is the perfect antidote to Mozart poisoning. Yes, check those times, people, the Friday and Saturday concerts are in the afternoon, which is unusual. Guest conductor Lorin Maazel will lead performances of Strauss’s symphonic works Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, the Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings, and the otherworldly Four Last Songs with mezzo-soprano Katarina Karnéus. Tickets: $20 to $79.

>> Also worth hearing would be the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Art of Picasso program on Thursday (January 19, 8 p.m.). Guest conductor Stefan Sanderling and guitarist Manuel Barrueco join the BSO for music with some connection to Picasso or Spain, including Manuel de Falla’s Three-Cornered Hat and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, at the Music Center at Strathmore. Tickets: $43 to $78.

>> If you went to the BSO on Thursday and the NSO either Friday or Saturday afternoon, you would still be able to attend a concert by a visiting orchestra on Friday (January 20, 8 p.m.). The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, led by conductor Charles Dutoit, will perform at the George Mason University Center for the Arts, in Fairfax. Yes, there is a Mozart symphony on the program, but the rest is all Sibelius, the Karelia overture and the second symphony. Tickets: $25 to $50.