Francis Poulenc News

New York City Center's acclaimed Fall for Dance Festival, running September 22 - October 3, 2009, will feature 20 companies in 10 nights of dance and will pay tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the Ballets Russes. The sixth annual Festival will once again offer all tickets for only $10. Tickets will go on sale Sunday, September 13 at 11:00 am.

Following the success of last year's centenary celebration of Olivier Messiaen's birth, the Yale School of Music (YSM) turns again to a great musician on his 100th birthday. On Saturday, September 26 at 7:30 p.m., YSM opens its third annual Yale in New York series with The Classical Legacy of Benny Goodman. The gifted alumni, students, and faculty of YSM present six 20th-century works linked with the legendary clarinetist.

Alonzo King's LINES Ballet is performing a special New York City engagement this week May 5 - 10, 2009 at The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19th Street). The acclaimed company is returning to The Joyce with New York premieres from the gifted choreographer: 'Dust And Light' had its world premiere in San Francisco two weeks ago. It has music by Arcangelo Corelli and Francis Poulenc, costume design by Robert Rosenwasser and lighting design by Axel Morgenthaler. 'Rasa', an exhilarating and transformative work set to tabla music composed and arranged by Zakir Hussain, with costume & stage design by Robert Rosenwasser and lighting and design by Alain Lortie is also being performed.

The West Bank Café announces upcoming performances to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre. The West Bank Café is located at 407 West 42nd. St., at Ninth Avenue. For reservations, please call 212.695.6909.

In anticipation of the beginning of Gerard Mortier's tenure as General Manager and Artistic Director in 2009-10, New York City Opera will present Looking Forward, a celebration of twentieth-century music, as part of a unique series of concerts and events planned for 2008-09.

The West Bank Café announces our October, 2007 line-up of live entertainment, to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

Tony Award-winning Broadway sopranos Barbara Cook and Audra McDonald will appear together onstage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on March 17th, 2007

On October 11th and 12th, four-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald will return to Lincoln Center to launch the ninth season of the 'American Songbook' series

Four-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald's fourth solo CD will be released by Nonesuck Records on September 26th

On June 29th at 7 PM, Audra McDonald will perform with gospel singer Liz McComb for a free concert in Central Park's Rumsey Playfield

On June 19th at 7:30 PM, Broadway legend Barbara Cook and four-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald will share the stage of the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ for the benefit evening Barbara Cook and Audra McDonald in Concert

The program for Audra McDonald's upcoming Carnegie Hall concert on Saturday, April 29th has been announced, with the star set to pay tribute to classic musicals

Four-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald will make her Houston Grand Opera debut in a double bill of one-act, one-woman operas by Michael John LaChiusa and Francis Poulenc from March 4th through 26th

Richard Daniels -- the 54-year-old dancer/choreographer who began to create a daring, new body of work 10 years ago when he resumed his career in dance after a 15-year absence -- will present his newest concert, RICHARD DANIELS: TELLING TALES for four performances only September 29 to October 2 at Danspace Project (131 E. 10 St.) in Manhattan.