David Newman News

To celebrate October 21 as BACK TO THE FUTURE DAY, which marks Back to the the day the film's Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled ahead to in 1989 film BACK TO THE FUTURE II, Toyota has reunites the film's stars Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.

The glowing fountains at Josie Robertson Plaza, plumed with a dazzling vibrancy, welcoming a throng of silvery faces. Among them sauntered an impressionable following, the young and economically diverse New Yorkers who only know the now-infamous House Un-American Activities Committee by rote.

This weekend found the New York Philharmonic in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for the inaugural performance residency of its five-year partnership with the University Musical Society of the University of Michigan, in conjunction with the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Alan Gilbert led the Orchestra in works by Beethoven, Magnus Lindberg, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Richard Strauss; David Newman led the score to On the Waterfrontas the complete film was screened; Philharmonic musicians led master classes; and Alan Gilbert conducted a thousand — Philharmonic brass plus the Michigan Marching Band, Michigan Alumni Band, and UMS Choral Union — at the Michigan Homecoming football game halftime show. Go Blue!

Actor Christopher Lloyd, who portrayed Emmett "Doc" Brown, will join fellow cast member James Tolkan (Mr. Strickland), composer Alan Silvestri, writer/producer Bob Gale, and the entire New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for two special 30th anniversary HD screenings of the original BACK TO THE FUTURE at the renowned Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Led by conductor David Newman, the orchestra will perform Silvestri's entire original score live in sync with the film, including 20 minutes of brand new music that Silvestri added for this special live concert production.

The New York Philharmonic will present the third season of THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic September 18-21, 2015, featuring two complete Academy Award-winning films screened with live performances of their acclaimed scores: On the Waterfront and The Godfather.

The Bach Choir of Bethlehem has announced its 2015/16 season, Bach At The Heart, which will culminate in the 109th Bethlehem Bach Festival in May 2016. In a milestone programming endeavor, The Bach Choir of Bethlehem will mount performances of four major choral works this season: in addition to the traditional performance of the B Minor Mass at the Bach Festival 2016, the Christmas Oratorio (Cantatas 1-3) will be performed in the Bach Choir's traditional Christmas concerts on December 12th & 13th,2015; the St. John Passion in its spring concert on March 20th,, and the Easter Oratorio at the Bach Festival on Friday evenings. The Bach Choir, Bach Festival Orchestra, and distinguished soloists perform under the direction of artistic director and conductor Greg Funfgeld, now in his 33rd season.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic will performJohn Williams' entire Academy Award®-winning score from E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, live-to-picture at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday and Saturday, September 4 and 5, at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, September 6, at 7:30 p.m. 

The New York Philharmonic will present the third season of THE ART OF THE SCORE: Film Week at the Philharmonic September 18-21, 2015, featuring two complete Academy Award-winning films screened with live performances of their acclaimed scores: On the Waterfront and The Godfather.

The New York Philharmonic has announced updates to its 2015-16 season since the artists and programs were announced on January 21, 2015. The changes are incorporated in the updated chronological listing. Highlights include:

An inspiring story about love, life and real estate unfolds in 5 Flights Up, coming to DVD and Blu-ray with Digital HD today, July 7, 2015, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

An inspiring story about love, life and real estate unfolds in 5 Flights Up, coming to DVD and Blu-ray with Digital HD on July 7, 2015, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the highlights and overview of programming scheduled for the 56th annual Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, a production of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. The 10-day celebration of the arts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is unlike any other in the nation, recently being nominated by USA Today.com for being the Best Art Festival in the nation.

Broadcast Music, Inc.® (BMI®), the global leader in music rights management, will present the BMI Icon Award for outstanding career achievement to prolific composer Alexandre Desplat at the organization's 2015 Film & Television Awards.

The Connecticut Cabaret Theatre presents It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman, a musical comedy based on the comic strip Superman. The show features book by David Newman and Robert Benton, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. Produced and directed by Kris McMurray with musical director Sean Lewis, the production runs April 17th thru May 30th, 2015.

Fair Lawn Recreation Department's resident theater company, Old Library Theatre, presents the musical comedy, 'It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman!'

Water becomes an extraordinary and transformative musical instrument taking center stage as it flows, drips, gurgles, splashes, bubbles and crashes to create a staggering array of percussive sounds when the Los Angeles Master Chorale, conducted by Artistic Director Grant Gershon, presents Oscar and Grammy Award-winning composer Tan Dun's riveting Water Passion After St. Matthew, 'a masterpiece for the ages' (AllMusic), on Saturday, April 11, 2 pm, and Sunday, April 12, 2015, 7 pm, at Disney Hall.

Renowned violinist Sarah Chang will perform Bernstein's West Side Story Suite in all six NJSO venues statewide across two concert programs led by Music Director Jacques Lacombe, January 16 - 18 in Princeton, Red Bank and Morristown and January 22 - 25 in Englewood, Newark and New Brunswick. Chang's two-week residency with the NJSO, sponsored by Bank of America, anchors the Orchestra's 2015 Winter Festival: Sounds of Shakespeare.

The University Musical Society of the University of Michigan and the New York Philharmonic have announced an ambitious five-year residency partnership, beginning with concerts and activities in October 2015. The partnership is the centerpiece of a larger program bringing three different orchestras to Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium each season. Each residency will include multi-performance residencies, master classes and workshops for University of Michigan students, and activities for the regional community.

The University Musical Society of the University of Michigan and the New York Philharmonic have announced an ambitious five-year residency partnership, beginning with concerts and activities in October 2015. The partnership is the centerpiece of a larger program bringing three different orchestras to Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium each season. Each residency will include multi-performance residencies, master classes and workshops for University of Michigan students, and activities for the regional community.