Classical notes: Henry Meyer tribute

On Tuesday, pianist James Tocco and the Amernet String Quartet will perform a concert in memory of violinist Henry Meyer at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Meyer, a founding member of the famed LaSalle Quartet, longtime teacher and survivor of the Holocaust, died in December. He retired from CCM in 1993 after four decades on the faculty.

Tocco, CCM professor of piano and Eminent Scholar in Chamber Music, has designed a program of Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms – "music Henry would have loved," he says.

Schubert's "Notturno for violin, cello and piano" will include Tocco on piano, with guest violinist Yehonatan Berick and Lee Fiser, former cellist of the LaSalle Quartet. The program will include a musical tribute to Meyer and the LaSalle quartet with an audio recording of the ensemble playing one of their signature pieces, Beethoven's "Cavatina" of Op. 130.

Other works include Mozart's String Quartet No. 21 in D Major, K. 575 and Brahms' Piano Quintet in F Minor.

The Amernet Quartet, formerly in residence at CCM and Northern Kentucky University, is now ensemble-in-residence at Florida International University.

The concert, 8 p.m. in Werner Recital Hall, is free. 513-556-4183, www.ccm.uc.edu.

Conductor cancellation: Krzysztof Penderecki has cancelled his Feb. 24-25 appearances with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra because he is recovering from surgery, the orchestra announced this week. Stepping in for the conductor/composer to make his Cincinnati Symphony subscription concert debut will be Tito Munoz, 23, newly appointed assistant conductor.

Because Penderecki was to have conducted his own Symphony No. 2, the program has changed, too. Munoz will conduct Mozart's Overture to "Don Giovanni," Dukas' "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and Stravinsky's "The Firebird" Suite.

Violinist Chee-Yun will perform the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, as previously announced.

Tickets: $17.50-$73; $10 students; other discounts. 513-381-3300, www.cincinnatisymphony.org