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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM has announced CONCERTS for DECEMBER 2011 including Patti Smith and Friends , New York Philharmonic's CONTACT!, Homayun Sakhi, and Afghan Rubab Virtuoso. Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert Begins Its Ninth Season. Judy Collins, Paul Winter, Anonymous 4, Vienna Boys Choir, Ebony Ecumenical Ensemble, and More Perform Christmas Concerts.

Dancing With The Stars finalist and N'SYNC star Lance Bass, theater producer and last years' honoree Michel Butler and New York Yankees pitcher David Robertson will be featured guests at tonight's fourth annual Broadway in South Africa gala. Tonight's event will feature Broadway artists and Broadway in South Africa (BSA) students from South Africa sharing the stage to present and perform world-premiere songs written my many of New York's most talented songwriters and composers. For tonight's show, held the Manhattan Center's Grand Ballroom, located at 311 West 34th Street, general admission tickets are now selling for $25, and can be purchased at the door, or by visiting www.broadwayinsouthafrica.org. Curtain is 7:30p.

To further fulfill it commitment to creating cross-cultural exchange through the power of art, Broadway in South Africa (BSA) hosts a group of its South African students on their first trip outside of South Africa.

After Christine Brewer opened her season in a program of Wagner and Beethoven with the Atlanta Symphony, the Atlanta Journal Constitution marveled, 'Brewer's soprano is an instrument of rare luxury and power, at once silken, roaring, luminous,' and compared her to 'the great Wagnerians from legend.'

To further fulfill it commitment to creating cross-cultural exchange through the power of art, Broadway in South Africa (BSA) hosts a group of its South African students on their first trip outside of South Africa.

Susanna Phillips, winner of the Metropolitan Opera's 2010 Beverly Sills Artist Award, has launched the 2011-12 season with a bang.

The free concert offered by internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli on Central Park's Great Lawn, Thursday, September 15, 2011, will be recorded in high definition by THIRTEEN's GREAT PERFORMANCES. Accompanied by the New York Philharmonic, under the direction of music director Alan Gilbert, the Westminster Symphonic Choir, conducted by Joe Miller, with special guest artists to be announced, the gala event is a special gift to New York City.

Pianists and Artistic Directors Blair McMillen and Pam Goldberg present 'String Force,' the third and last round of concerts in the Rite of Summer Music Festival, taking place on Governors Island Labor Day weekend, on Sunday, September 4th.

Pianists and Artistic Directors Blair McMillen and Pam Goldberg present 'String Force,' the third and last round of concerts in the Rite of Summer Music Festival, taking place on Governors Island Labor Day weekend, on Sunday, September 4th.

The free concert offered by internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli on Central Park's Great Lawn, Thursday, September 15, 2011, will be recorded in high definition by THIRTEEN's GREAT PERFORMANCES. Accompanied by the New York Philharmonic, under the direction of music director Alan Gilbert, the Westminster Symphonic Choir, conducted by Joe Miller, with special guest artists to be announced, the gala event is a special gift to New York City.

Case Scaglione, age 28, and Joshua Weilerstein, 23, have been named New York Philharmonic Assistant Conductors for the 2011-12 season. They will assist Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, and all guest conductors throughout the season, and will lead educational events, including School Day Concerts and Young People's Concerts.

Sybarite5: The Shuffle Effect Chamber Music for the I-Pod Generation June 2 at 8:30

David Robertson will lead the New York Philharmonic in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff's The Isle of the Dead, and Schoenberg's Erwartung, with soprano Deborah Voigt as soloist, Thursday, June 9, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 10, at 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, June 11, at 8:00 p.m.

Deborah Voigt sings the first Brunnhilde of her career tonight, when Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's Die Walkure opens at New York's Metropolitan Opera.

In June 2011, The New York Philharmonic This Week - the two-hour, national weekly and international radio program of concerts by the New York Philharmonic, hosted by actor Alec Baldwin - begins with a program that will be recorded at a concert on the Orchestra's EUROPE / SPRING 2011 tour.

Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, will lead the New York Philharmonic in Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2, with Lisa Batiashvili as soloist, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, Wednesday, May 4, 2011, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, May 6, at 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, May 7, at 8:00 p.m. These are the Orchestra's final concerts before departing for the EUROPE / SPRING 2011 tour; both works on this program will also be performed on this tour of European capitals.

Tenor Paul Appleby is joined by pianist Brian Zeger for a solo recital as the winner of Juilliard's 14th annual Alice Tully Vocal Arts Recital Award on November 30 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall (Broadway at 65th Street). The program features Schubert's song cycle, 'Die schöne Müllerin', on poems by Wilhelm Müller.

Tenor Paul Appleby is joined by pianist Brian Zeger for a solo recital as the winner of Juilliard's 14th annual Alice Tully Vocal Arts Recital Award on November 30 at 8 PM in Alice Tully Hall (Broadway at 65th Street). The program features Schubert's song cycle, 'Die schöne Müllerin', on poems by Wilhelm Müller.

New Edgecliff Theatre announced today the cast of The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams, the first show of its 2010-2011 Season. The production will feature two local favorites, Annie Fitzpatrick and Kate Wilford (both members of Actors Equity Association), supported by a strong cast of Cincinnati and Dayton actors.

New Edgecliff Theatre announced today the cast of The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams, the first show of its 2010-2011 Season. The production will feature two local favorites, Annie Fitzpatrick and Kate Wilford (both members of Actors Equity Association), supported by a strong cast of Cincinnati and Dayton actors.