Today’s Best Bets

Music

Jeffrey Kahane conducts Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, “The Great,” and German baritone Thomas Quasthoff makes his local debut singing Bach’s Cantata 82, “Ich habe genug” and three arias by Mozart.

* Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, 8 p.m. Royce Hall, UCLA, (213) 622-7001, Ext. 215. Also Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Blvd., Glendale.

Stage

The life of the great country singer Patsy Cline is dramatized through her friendship with a Texas housewife who became her confidante after a chance meeting.

* “Always . . . Patsy Cline,” La Mirada Theatre, 14900 La Mirada Blvd., (562) 944-9801, (714) 994-6310. 8 p.m. Regular schedule: Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; April 18, 25, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays-Sundays, 2:30 p.m., except no matinee this Saturday. Ends April 25.

Pop

Latin music will once again fill the Million Dollar Theatre in Los Angeles, a downtown landmark that in recent years has been used as a church.

* Juan Valentin, Mercedes Castro, Alicia Juarez, Adela Fernandez, 6 p.m., 307 S. Broadway, (213) 473-0720. Also Saturday and Sunday, 2 and 6 p.m.

Television

With a new “Divas Live” concert scheduled for Tuesday, last year’s event with Mariah Carey, left, Celine Dion, Shania Twain and Gloria Estefan gets recycled in a special “pop up” version. That’s pop (up) culture for you.

* “Divas Live ‘98,” 8 p.m. VH1.