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Bachtoberfest, the fall fundraiser for the Chicago area's Bach Week Festival, will offer music of J. S. Bach played on a "Cornucopia of Keyboards" - bayan, harmonium, harpsichord, piano, and organ - plus German food and drink from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 7, at Nichols Concert Hall of the Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston.

The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza Foundation and KCLU presents THE CAPITOL STEPS in the Fred Kavli Theatre at 8:00 pm on Monday, October 1, 2012.

On Saturday, September 29 at 8pm, David Gray will perform at Torrington's Warner Theatre.

On Friday, September 28 at 8pm, Montgomery Gentry will perform at Torrington's Warner Theatre.

The Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC) will present the Alexandre Dumas classics, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, adapted by Linda Alper, DCTC resident dramaturg Douglas Langworthy and Penny Metropulos, playing The Stage Theatre September 21 - October 21, 2012. Tickets may be purchased now, by calling 303.893.4100 or visiting www.denvercenter.org.

Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma will present Charles Ludlam's THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP, October 10-27 at the Plaza Theatre.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will present celebrated Russian pianist Mikhail Rudy in the New York premiere of a multimedia performance of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vystavki, 1874) with animated projections of rarely seen drawings by Vasily Kandinsky on Thursday, September 27, and Friday, September 28, 2012, at 8 pm. Drawn from the archives of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the watercolor sketches were made for Kandinsky's historic staging of the Mussorgsky piece in Dessau, Germany, in 1928. The Guggenheim performances are followed by a moderated discussion with Rudy about the origin of his project.

The Chicago Sinfonietta's milestone 25th Anniversary Season opening concert, titled Performance. Art., features a unique collaboration with the Brooklyn-based, high-energy chamber ensemble PROJECT Trio (Greg Pattillo, Peter Seymour and Eric Stephenson).

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of THE WALTONS, one of television's most iconic shows, a cast reunion is scheduled for Saturday, September 29, 2012, at the historic Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. The creator of the series, Mr. Earl Hamner, Jr., along with the cast and many writers, directors and producers of the show, will be honored by celebrities who were guests on the show, as well as by celebrity friends who starred on other classic television shows.

Dix, a Story of the Back-Ward Women is a new show by local Salisbury playwright and poet Janice Fuller. Originally written and developed for the Minneapolis Fringe Festival, Dix explores the lives of nurses and patients at the Dorothea Dix Hospital.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra returns to Jorgensen this season to perform the first of four in its 40th anniversary commissioned works, Earth Echoes by Pulitzer Prize nominee Augusta Read Thomas, in a Connecticut premiere that will include Metropolitan Opera stars Sasha Cooke and Nathan Gunn. The concert, fresh from its Carnegie Hall debut the night before, will be performed Friday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m., preceded by a concert talk by UConn music historian Glenn Stanley at 6:45 p.m.

CONNED, a new show featuring the world's most famous con artists, will perform for a two week engagement starting Thursday, January 17 through Sunday, January 27 on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at Detroit's City Theatre; located inside Hockeytown Cafe at 2301 Woodward Avenue. CONNED is part of the Fifth Third Bank Fox Theatre Series.

On October 7, 2012 at 2:45 in the afternoon at Christ and St. Stephen's Church, internationally renowned tenor Francisco Casanova will present Tutto Verdi, a concert of ensembles from the operas of Giuseppe Verdi.

UK artists, Morning Parade, are have announced live dates as special guests ofSmashing Pumpkins this October/November. This news comes hot on the heels of their network TV debut on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno which kicked off of an extensive tour with The Wombats.

Following weeks of heavy competition and performances on NBC's #1 hit television show America's Got Talent, this season's winner Olate Dogs and other top performers, along with fan-favorite special guests, will perform together live in a one-of-a-kind production exclusively at The Palazzo Theatre in Las Vegas.

The Baltimore Symphony Associates host their annual holiday fundraiser, Symphony Homes for the Holidays, November 29 through December 1, 2012 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. The tour of elegantly decorated private residences will take place in Monkton, Md., starting at The Monkton Mill located at 2019 Monkton Rd., Monkton, Md. 21111.

The Alliance Theatre has announced that its world premiere What I Learned in Paris has been extended. The romantic comedy by Pearl Cleage, which was originally scheduled to close on September 30 will receive 4 additional performances - Thursday, October 4, 7:30p; Friday, October 5, 8:00pm; and Saturday, October 6, 2:30p & 8:00p.

This October, the world's first 24-hour, all-animation cable network will celebrate its first 20 years by hosting CARTOON NETWORK'S BIRTHDAY PARTY, described as 'an on-air and online birthday tribute created especially for kids and kids-at-heart who've grown up with the wildly fun and outrageous network since its launch in 1992. Launching on Oct. 1, 1992 within just two million U.S. homes, Cartoon Network has since grown to become the #1 television network among boys 6-11, and is currently seen in over 175 countries and in more than 360 million households worldwide.'

A major influence on many of today's musicians, Neil Sedaka is best known for his major hit song "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" which is listed as one of the 50 most-played songs of the 20th century. Set at a Catskills resort in 1960, this endearing story presents most of Neil Sedaka's most popular songs spun together in a light-hearted tale of mistaken identity, friendship and love.

Black Country Communion, the Anglo-American rock band comprising Glenn Hughes (vocals, bass), Joe Bonamassa (guitar, vocals), Jason Bonham (drums) and Derek Sherinian (keyboards), have announced their only concert of 2013 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall on Saturday 5th January 2013. The concert is significant, as it is based in the heart of the Black Country, where both Glenn Hughes and Jason Bonham grew up as kids.