With the arrival of spring this week, thoughts turn to a mix of soul greenery and painful reflection, and there are three events this weekend that help us get there:

• First up is the return of Mercury Soul to the New World Center in Miami Beach for its second appearance this season. This three-person musical arts collective got its start in San Francisco in 2008 and is spearheaded by composer Mason Bates, who doubles as DJ Masonic. The other members are conductor Benjamin Shwartz and visual artist Anne Patterson, and the three have been bringing their unique brand of reinvented classical music to the New World, as well as venues in San Francisco and Chicago.

The project stems from Bates’ central insight a few years ago (as he explains in this video) while pursuing dual careers as a DJ and a classical composer that the two could be mixed, and what’s more, mixed with visual and spoken elements. The program, called “Pulse: Late Night at the New World Symphony,” promises to turn Frank Gehry’s 17th Street musical shrine into the very hottest and hippest of clubs (one wonders whether Bill Hader’s Stefon, the twisted city correspondent on “Saturday Night Live,” might make something of it).

The music at the heart of the enterprise, played by the New World, will be enhanced by Bates as he spins it into a night of electronica. There will be a casual club atmosphere, plenty of things to drink and a lot of interesting musical experimentation. The show starts at 9:30 Friday, and all tickets are $20. Call 763-3331 or visit www.nws.edu.

• Meanwhile, that same night marks the third and final weekend of the Cleveland Orchestra’s Miami residency, with the official guest conductor of that residency, Giancarlo Guerrero. He and the orchestra will be joined by Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero for two concerts at the Knight Concert Hall. Montero will play the venerable Piano Concerto (in A minor, Op. 16) of Edvard Grieg, a piece beloved for its memorable tunes and engaging piano part. The orchestra will open the concerts with the Pastoral Symphony (No. 6 in F, Op. 68) of Beethoven and close with the orchestral fireworks of Ottorino Respighi’s Pines of Rome.

This is a good spring program, with the Pastoral a perfect picnic-in-the-woods kind of piece, and the Respighi a testament to the composer’s studies under Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the most formidable orchestrators of the Romantic era. But the Cleveland also will perform a family concert Saturday afternoon featuring Miami’s leading timba band, Tiempo Libre.

The musicians of Tiempo Libre are mostly classically trained (I once heard them do a take on one of the Well-Tempered Clavier preludes of J.S. Bach), and they’re comfortable in both worlds, much as Mercury Soul is. The band will do a concert of percussion-heavy Latin favorites with the orchestra, and that promises to be a high-energy program no matter what they play. Guerrero was trained as an orchestral percussionist, and he’ll invite kids in the audience to help add to the music.

The Friday and Saturday night concerts are set for 8 p.m.; the family concert Saturday is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tickets for the family concert start at $12, and at $25 for the nighttime events. Call 305-949-6722 or visit www.clevelandorchestramiami.com.

• But all that partying comes with a cost, and on Sunday, a group of musicians at Trinity Cathedral will explore one of the late masterworks of Haydn, written for the Easter season: The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross, often called The Seven Last Words of Christ. Haydn wrote the first orchestral version in 1786 for the cathedral of Cadiz in Spain, a country where the composer’s work was revered.

Haydn loved how the work turned out and about 10 years later recast the work for chorus, soloists and orchestra, which also proved quite popular. He also prepared a string quartet version of the music, and in Sunday’s performance, Trinity music director Matthew Steynor will combine the two. A quartet of musicians from the Miami Mozarteum will be joined by the Anglican Chorale of Southeast Florida, and four soloists: Esther Jane Hardenbergh, Misty Bermudez, William Carney and Jeffrey Williams.

The music is quite beautiful and of a piece with Haydn’s late masses and their considerable expressive power. This is a piece that is too rarely done these days — Haydn choral performances tend to be of moments from The Creation, the Lord Nelson Mass, and the like — and its expressly religious subject is no bar to believers from other faiths and traditions who want to hear a fine achievement by one of the greatest masters of the Classical tradition.

The concert starts at 6 p.m. Sunday in the cathedral, at 464 N.E. 16th St. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Call 305-789-0074 or visit www.trinitymiami.org.