John Adams News

The sun will come out in Thousand Oaks as Cabrillo Music Theatre proudly announces its brand-new production of the hit musical, ANNIE.

The North Carolina Symphony's popular series of laid-back dinner performances return in two weeks with a concert of tantalizing musical themes.

Acclaimed violinist and MacArthur Fellow Leila Josefowicz returns to The Philadelphia Orchestra as artist-in-residence for the 2011-12 season, continuing a nearly 20 year artistic collaboration with the ensemble.

Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, today announced the return of the acclaimed new play, The Best of Enemies, by Mark St. Germain (author of Freud's Last Session), for a run from October 5 through 16 at the BSC Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield.

22Q Entertainment LLC (producer of the The Spoon River Project at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn), GO AlleyCat Productions in association with Joe Coots will present the world premiere of It Is Done written by internationally-produced and award-winning playwright Alex Goldberg and directed by Tom Wojtunik.

BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS begins its TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

The summer's most acclaimed new play, The Best of Enemies, by Mark St. Germain (author of Freud's Last Session), returns to Barrington Stage Company, the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership Artistic Director Julianne Boyd and Managing Director Tristan Wilson, for a run from tonight through 16 at the BSC Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield. The press opening is Saturday, October 8 at 8pm.

Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi will lead his first Met performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni, in a new production directed by Tony Award winner Michael Grandage in his Met debut.

The first concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella 2011/12 season features the LA Phil New Music Group under the baton of exciting young Dutch conductor Otto Tausk, in his Walt Disney Concert Hall and LA Phil debuts tonight at 8 p.m.

Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston is once again presenting Broadway veterans Kirby and Beverly Ward in the original musical revue, 'Say It with Music,' a non-stop song-and-dance salute to the genius of composer Irving Berlin.

Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston is once again presenting Broadway veterans Kirby and Beverly Ward in the original musical revue, 'Say It with Music,' a non-stop song-and-dance salute to the genius of composer Irving Berlin.

The board members of the North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc., and North Carolina Symphony Foundation met in a joint session and annual meeting Tuesday to elect new members.

The programs for the Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts scheduled for Friday, September 30 through Sunday, October 2 and Thursday and Friday, October 20 and 21; as well as the concerts that open the American Orchestra series hosted at Davies Symphony Hall by the San Francisco Symphony, Sunday, October 23, and Monday, October 24, have been changed. Stravinsky's Symphony in C, originally scheduled for September 30 - October 2, and October 24, has been replaced by Esteban Benzecry's Rituales Amerindios, and the two works by John Adams - Short Ride in a Fast Machine and Tromba lontana - have been switched.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), led by celebrated Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, performs two concerts featuring internationally renowned soprano Karina Gauvin, called 'breathtaking,' by The Times (London), on Saturday, October 15, 8 pm, at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, and Sunday, October 16, 2011, 7 pm, at UCLA's Royce Hall.

The San Francisco Symphony (SFS) today announced that it will host a season-long, nationwide dialogue on the 21st century American orchestra, in conjunction with the visits of six other major American orchestras during its Centennial 2011-12 season.

The Minnesota Orchestra launches its 109th season-its ninth under Music Director Osmo Vänskä-with the world premiere of a major new work titled TimePiece, a cutting-edge composition for jazz soloists and orchestra co-written by acclaimed Minnesota-based composer Stephen Paulus and his son, 27-year-old professional trumpet player Greg Paulus

The first concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella 2011/12 season features the LA Phil New Music Group under the baton of exciting young Dutch conductor Otto Tausk, in his Walt Disney Concert Hall and LA Phil debuts, Tuesday, October 4, at 8 p.m.

The North Carolina Symphony's popular series of laid-back dinner performances return in two weeks with a concert of tantalizing musical themes.

BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS announces its TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

The Hartt School, the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford, is pleased to welcome acclaimed horn player and American Brass Quintet member David Wakefield to the faculty of The Hartt School's Instrumental Studies Division. As a senior artist teacher, Wakefield will work with Hartt's horn students.