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The Old Opera House presents the comedy/drama play The Dixie Swim Club May 7th through May 16th. The Dixie Swim Club is written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, which previously brought Christmas Belles and Dearly Beloved to the Old Opera House.

The Old Opera House presents the comedy/drama play The Dixie Swim Club May 7th through May 16th. The Dixie Swim Club is written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, which previously brought Christmas Belles and Dearly Beloved to the Old Opera House.

Pianist Emanuel Ax returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage in a recital featuring piano works by Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann, Tuesday, April 20, at 8 p.m. The program also presents the West coast premiere of an LA Phil-co-commissioned new work from composer Thomas Adès, Three Mazurkas. The Colburn Celebrity Series event is the final of the three recitals featured in the On Location: Emanuel Ax residency, which explores the dual bicentennials of Schumann and Chopin.

The Old Opera House presents the comedy/drama play The Dixie Swim Club May 7th through May 16th. The Dixie Swim Club is written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, which previously brought Christmas Belles and Dearly Beloved to the Old Opera House.

On March 25, 2010, General Director Brian Dickie announced Chicago Opera Theater's (COT) 2011 Spring Festival Season: the Midwest Premiere of Tod Machover's Death and the Powers, the Chicago Premiere of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Medea (Médée), and 'HE/SHE' featuring Leoš Janá?ek's The Diary of One Who Disappeared (Zápisník zmizelého) and Robert Schumann's A Woman's Love and Life (Frauenliebe und Leben).

On March 25, 2010, General Director Brian Dickie announced Chicago Opera Theater's (COT) 2011 Spring Festival Season: the Midwest Premiere of Tod Machover's Death and the Powers, the Chicago Premiere of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Medea (Médée), and 'HE/SHE' featuring Leoš Janá?ek's The Diary of One Who Disappeared (Zápisník zmizelého) and Robert Schumann's A Woman's Love and Life (Frauenliebe und Leben).

Offering up greater variety, including more than 50 debuts from Sting to Wagnerian tenor John Treleaven, Ravinia Festival Chairperson Pamela B. Strobel and President and CEO Welz Kauffman today announced details of the 2010 season, including a Chicago Symphony Orchestra residency that celebrates major anniversaries of Mahler, Chopin, Schumann, Barber, Bernstein and Copland, as well as milestone birthdays of Music Director James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach and Stephen Sondheim. The season, featuring 117 separate events, runs from June 3 through September 7.

New York City Opera General Manager and Artistic Director George Steel today announced the company's 2010-2011 season, which spotlights American composers and 20th-century works within a mix of world premieres, New York premieres and new productions. Offering audiences the opportunity to experience new and rarely performed operas as well as modern interpretations of traditional repertoire, the 2010-2011 season will also feature the launch of a concert series showcasing the non-operatic works of several of the composers of this season's operas. Taking advantage of the possibilities offered by the recent renovation of the company's home, the David H. Koch Theater, the concert series expands the repertoire and programming of City Opera and casts new light on the season's productions.

The St. Louis Musicians for Haiti concert was amazing, raising over $20,000 for Doctors Without Borders! Re-live the magic again on HEC-TV (Channel 26/AT&T U-Verse Channel 99), with re-broadcats every Saturday night in March at 5 p.m.!

An all-star line-up of St. Louis musicians, plus dozens of local visual artists, help to raise over $20,000 for Doctors Without Borders' Haitian earthquake relief efforts though the Notes From Home "St. Louis Musicians for Haiti" concert.

Watch the St. Louis Musicians for Haiti Benefit Live on HEC-TV! Hosted by Julius Hunter and featuring Brian Owens, Mayor Taylor, Bottoms up Blues Gang, Peter Martin, Mardra and Reggie Thomas, Kim Massie, Christine Brewer and Peter Henderson, an All-Star line-up of St. Louis musicians donate their time and talents for a one-night-only concert event to raise money for Haitian earthquake relief.

The University of Florida Performing Arts Center has announced upcoming events from February - April for the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts University Auditorium and the Alan & Carol Squitieri Studio Theatre.

Robert Breig makes his solo cabaret debut with 'Feels Like Home,' featuring songs by Burt Bacharach, The Carpenters, and Kenny Loggins. In this show, Robert goes after a warm hearth and mulled wine on a cold winter night, with everyone gathered 'round for a night of contemporary song and story.

An all-star line-up of St. Louis musicians will donate their time and talent for 'St. Louis Musicians for Haiti', a one-night-only event, Tuesday, February 9 at 7:30 p.m. to benefit Doctors Without Borders' Haitian Earthquake Relief efforts. Hosted by Julius Hunter, the event will feature soul and R&B singer Brian Owens, folk group Mayor Taylor, the Bottoms Up Blues Gang, jazz pianist Peter Martin, jazz vocalist Mardra Thomas with husband Reggie Thomas on piano, and jazz, soul and R&B singer Kim Massie.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Board Chair Ben Johnson announced today that the contract for Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles will be extended for one year, through the 2011-12 season. Following the end of his contract, Mr. Runnicles will continue to appear as a guest conductor with the Orchestra for two weeks annually - he currently appears four weeks each season.

Calendar of Events January 2010 - March 2010 Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts University Auditorium Alan & Carol Squitieri Studio Theatre

Miracle on 34th Street Adapted by Will Severin, Patricia Di Benedetto Snyder and John Vreeke from the novel by Valentine Davies

Miracle on 34th Street Adapted by Will Severin, Patricia Di Benedetto Snyder and John Vreeke from the novel by Valentine Davies

Calendar of Events for December 2009 - February 2010 for the Curtis M. Phillip Center for the Performing Arts, University Auditorium and Alan & Carol Squitieri Studio Theatre.

Miracle on 34th Street Adapted by Will Severin, Patricia Di Benedetto Snyder and John Vreeke from the novel by Valentine Davies