Catnip for music lovers who also bliss out on The Gilded Age. Elegantly curated concerts in better than a dozen venues of highly individual allure, including the Chinese Tea House, the Norman Bird Sanctuary, the Redwood Library & Athenæum, the Great Friends Meeting House, Emmanuel Church, and, most impressive of all, that “cottage” (ha!) called The Breakers, where the Vanderbilts made itinerant Russian nobility feel like country cousins. The talent includes the all-male a cappella ensemble Chanticleer, whose repertoire spans centuries; Broadway’s bewitching Laura Benanti; Boston’s venerable Handel & Haydn Society; and the majority-minority Sphinx Virtuosi, who showcase historically marginalized composers. For dish beside which the fantasies of Julian Fellowes pale, load your Kindle with King Lehr and the Gilded Age, wherein the thrice-wed Lady Decius, née Elizabeth Wharton Drexel, spills the beans about her humiliating 28-year white marriage to a sociable farceur physically repelled by the female sex. Edith Wharton Elizabeth was not, but she had quite the tale to tell. —Matthew Gurewitsch