New York Philharmonic, Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble

For these dates, superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma brings his elite, hybrid-genre players to collaborate with conductor Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic. The title of the first work on the Feb 19 program—Fanfare for Gaita, Suona, and Brass—highlights the world-music-meets-classical fusion feel of this production. Though the various groups on the bill will each spend some time onstage alone, everyone will get in on the action during composer Osvaldo Golijov's Rose of the Winds. By themselves, the Silk Road players present their multi-composer, self-titled suite. The whole playlist, which also includes Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, repeats on Feb 20 and Feb 21. (Those with the morning of Feb 19 to themselves should look into the $20 open rehearsal.)