LARA DOWNES at National Sawdust (Sept. 13, 7 p.m.). Downes will be joined by the harpist Bridget Kibbey, the singer Magos Herrera and her fellow pianist Simone Dinnerstein for “Holes in the Sky,” a concert of music by women composers including Clara Schumann, Florence Price, Meredith Monk and Paola Prestini. Clemency Burton-Hill, of WQXR, will moderate a discussion.

646-779-8455, nationalsawdust.org

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NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC at David Geffen Hall (Sept. 18-19, 7:30 p.m.; through Sept. 21). Jaap van Zweden seems to have settled on what he sees as the ideal balance of the new and the old at the Philharmonic, a vision of which this first subscription program of the year provides a decent example. There’s a popular classic, in the shape of excerpts from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet”; there’s a bit of a rarity, as the Broadway star Kelli O’Hara continues her longstanding interest in the classical world with Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915”; and there’s contemporary music, with the premiere of Philip Glass’s “King Lear Overture.”

212-875-5656, nyphil.org

JOSHUA ROMAN AND CONOR HANICK at the crypt of the Church of the Intercession (Sept. 18, 8 p.m.). The Crypt Sessions, deep in the bowels of a Harlem church, continue with this artful duo of Roman on cello and Hannick on piano playing a Schnittke sonata and two works by Arvo Pärt, “Fratres” and “Spiegel im Spiegel.” Good luck getting a ticket, though; Death of Classical’s series has become one of the most difficult tickets in town, and with good reason.

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