Nor will Ives Hall stay silent long: today at 7:30 P.M., the Danbury Concert Association presents the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, performing Mozart, Haydn, Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

On Thursday at 8 p.m., again at Sprague, the pianist Boris Berman will perform Haydn and Prokofiev.

The first will be the Chester String Quartet, which will perform Haydn, Britten and Schumann at 4 P.M. today.

Espadero's mother was a pianist from Cadiz who distinguished herself in the Havana salons around 1810 performing Haydn and Mozart.

A piano prodigy, he performed Haydn with the Chicago Symphony at age 11, and was playing in a burlesque-house pit by 13.

Sy Oliver's arrangements are packed with harmonic daring and instrumental invention, and the ensemble playing has an elegant precision matched only by the Cleveland Orchestra performing Haydn.

At one concert, for example, each child was given a toy trumpet and joined the orchestra in performing Haydn's "Toy" Symphony.

And to fill out a fascinating program for Passiontide, the Moyzes String Quartet, an ensemble of the Slovak Philharmonic, takes over to perform Haydn's compelling "Seven Last Words of Christ."

On Wednesday night at Avery Fisher Hall, Musica Sacra, conducted by Richard Westenburg, performs Haydn's "Seasons."

The Brindisi String Quartet, Trevor Pinnock and Anthony Pleeth performed Haydn, Mozart and Schubert.