MUSIC Performances This Week FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC. TCC Leo Rich Theatre. 260 S. Church Ave. 791-4266. The Arizona Friends of Chamber Music present works by Bach, Webern, Mendelssohn and Beethoven at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 30. Tickets are $10. Call 298-5806 or visit http://www.azstarnet.com/~bfoster for information. HOLY WEEK CANTATA. Casas Adobes Congregational Church. 6801 N. Oracle Road. The Southwest premier of Ronald A. Nelson's Voices of The Passion will be presented by the combined choirs of Casas Adobes and Oro Valley United Church at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 28. Donations will be accepted. Call 297-1181 for information. LATIN MUSIC CELEBRATION. The University of Arizona, in conjunction with the Latin American Area Center, presents a celebration of traditional and classical Latin American music March 30 through April 1. Guest composer Marlos Nobre of Brazil will lead a master class and lectures, culminating with a concert at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, in Crowder Hall. Bwiya-Toli plays at noon Monday, March 31, and Mariachi Arizona performs on Tuesday, April 1, on the UA Mall. Call 621-2998 for a complete list of events. LUCKY STARS. Pima Friends Meeting Hall. 931 N. Fifth Ave. Songlines Productions presents Margaret MacArthur at 8 p.m. Friday, March 28. MacArthur will perform works from her latest CD Them Stars, in addition to her standard traditional ballads and songs. Tickets are $7 in advance, with $1 discount for TKMA members, available at Antigone Books, Hear's Music, Loco Music and Girlfriends Coffee House. Call 887-5413 for information. MASTERWORKS CHORALE. Grace St. Paul's Episcopal Church. 2331 E. Adams St. The Tucson Masterworks Chorale presents The St. Matthew Passion by J.S. Bach at 7 p.m. Friday, March 28. Tickets are $12, $8 for seniors/students. Call 884-3506 for tickets and information. PRIMAVERA CONCERT. Berger Performing Arts Center. 1200 W. Speedway. 770-3690. Celebrate the talents of women in the arts at the 17th annual Primavera Jazz Concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 29. Tickets are $20, $14 for TJS members, and are available at Hear's Music. Call the TJS hotline at 743-3399 for information. UNIVERSITY MUSIC. The University of Arizona keeps the beat with these upcoming concerts: The school of Music presents UA Jazz Combos at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 27, at Crowder Hall. This free concert will showcase award-winning student-musicians performing works by Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Charles Mingus and others. The UA Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble, a.k.a. TubaCats, perform two free concerts at 8 p.m. Friday, and 3 p.m. Saturday, March 28 and 29, at Crowder Hall. They will perform a wide variety of tunes, from Afro-Cuban melodies to Bach. The Roy A. Johnson Memorial Organ Concert series continues with Jane Smith and Michael Crawley presenting William Albright's The King of Instruments, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1. This humorous piece showcases the various physical parts and unique sounds of the pipe organ. Tickets are $10, $8 and $5, available at the Fine Arts box office, 621-1162. Call MusiCall at 621-2998 for information on these and upcoming performances. Out Of Town LOVE OF MUSIC. The Bisbee Woman's Club continues the For the Love of Music series with "Opera Hits and Mexican Favorites" on Wednesday and Thursday, April 5 and 6, at the Bisbee Woman's Club Hall on Quality Hill in Old Bisbee. Tickets are available at the door for $7. Call (520) 432-7217 for information. Announcements CALL TO PERFORMERS. The Airport Lounge, 20 E. Pennington St., seeks musicians interested in participating in an Open Mic Film Project. Filming continues Thursday, March 27. Call Susan at 882-0400, or leave a message at 620-1867, for information. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS. The Tucson Kitchen Musicians Association, a volunteer, non-profit organization, seeks applicants for the 12th annual Tucson Folk Festival on May 3 and 4, in downtown El Presidio Park. Needed are vendors of fine foods, arts, crafts, music and paraphernalia; volunteers to help staff the festival, and acoustic music acts. Call 749-9770 or write to: TKMA, P.O. Box 26531, Tucson AZ 85726; or email to: dsimpson@rtd.com for a volunteer application and information.

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