We knew it had to happen, but here it is almost July, and we have little to tell you about this week. So, the time has come for your Classical Music Agenda to take a well-deserved summer break. Today’s installment will give you some ideas for concerts to hear from now through July. We will be back at the end of July. Until then, you can always find classical concert information at Ionarts.

CAN WE SAY BAROQUE?
>> I know at least some of you made it to hear La Didone last weekend: some of you cursed my name personally at the performance, and others enjoyed it. The adventuresome and inventive Ignoti Dei Opera company is mounting another production this summer, called Ground, a multimedia theater work using 17th-century ostinato bass pieces, music that I adore. They gave one performance as part of the Washington Early Music Festival. If you missed it, as I did, you have another chance next weekend (June 30 and July 1, 8 p.m.; July 2, 3 p.m.). It will mean a trip up to Baltimore, because the performance takes place at Baltimore Theater Project. Tickets: $28 (students, $22).

GAMELAN AND PUPPETS:
>> The other fascinating event coming up is the performance of a Javanese Shadow Puppet Drama on July 6 (Thursday, 7 p.m.) at the Freer Gallery of Art. Puppet master Purbo Asmoro will stage the story of a battle, between King Duryodana and Bima, drawn from the Mahabharata epic. The puppets will have music provided by a 20-piece gamelan orchestra, the evocative traditional ensemble of Java, which so influenced 20th-century composers from Debussy to the Beatles. Also, this performance is free, but you will need to have a ticket, either by reservation through Ticketmaster or by getting there early to wait on line. If you can’t make that, gamelan director Wakidi Dwidjomartono and puppet master Purbo Asmoro will give a free lecture-demonstration of Javanese shadow puppets and the gamelan on the following day (July 1, 1 p.m.) on the first level of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.