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Would you like some comedy with your classical music? Check out the classical music comic duo violinist Aleksy Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo. The Los Angeles Master Chorale has its season opener tonight.

Need some last-minute plans? If you or your special friend/lover/bff happen to be Francophiles, you might want to buy some tickets for Chanson d'Amour, where you can enjoy French love songs from the 20th century with an American twist.

Photo by Burns! via the LAist Featured Photos pool onFlickr It's the last week of Classical music at the Bowl! The season is going to end with a bang with Mozart's Requiem on Tuesday and Handel and Fireworks on Thursday. We've all heard the Requiem before, and if you've never seen a requiem at the Bowl, it's always one of the most memorable concerts of the season. Expect some goosebumps and hair-raising moments so...

To experience LA's most cutting-edge percussion chamber music, join the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet this Saturday at Zipper Hall at the Colburn School. The LAPQ is known for their performances of Californian avant-garde composers, and for their commissions of award-winning compositions. This weekend the LAPQ puts on a world premiere Rupa-Khanda, from award winning composer Sean Heim.

iCadenza, a Classical music organization commited to helping young musicians, is putting on their first festival this week featuring concerts, masterclasses, and presentations. The festival will take place this Wednesday through Saturday at Zipper Hall at the Colburn School.

It's your last week to head up to Santa Barbara to listen to some talented young musicians at the 2011 Music Academy of the West festival. The final performance is next Saturday at 8 PM at the Granada Theatre conducted by Leonard Slatkin.

Who doesn't love Flamenco? Guitarist David Maldonado is performing tomorrow night at the Ford Ampitheatre with dancers that you might have seen on "Dancing with the Stars" (Katie Miller) or as performers all over the world.

Missed out on the Tchaikovsky last week? No worries, we've got another major piano concerto and a Tchaikovsky piece this week to the Bowl. Yuja Wang returns to the Bowl this Tuesday for a performance of Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto.

Major League Gaming (MLG), the world's largest professional video game league, is coming to Anaheim this weekend (July 29th-31st). With over $120,000 in prizes at stake, the best players in the world are duking it out in Halo: Reach, Starcraft 2, and Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Image via Hollywood Bowl Gavrylyuk returns this Tuesday to the Hollywood Bowl in Tchaikovsky's masterful Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor. The Bowl is a perfect venue for a piece like this, don't miss out if you've never seen it live. Vasily Petrenko conducts both programs this week, and is conducting Dvorak's Carnival Overture and Sibelius' 2nd Symphony (if you're a Sibelius fan, Chalifour is performing the Violin Concerto on Thursday) on Tuesday....