John Adams News

The Colburn School announced today (September 2, 2011) that Pasadena's Ambassador Auditorium is to be the new home of the Colburn Orchestra for the 2011/12 season.

Music for a City, Music for the World: 100 Years with the San Francisco Symphony, the history of the San Francisco Symphony will be published in September 2011 by Chronicle Books, coinciding with the opening of the Symphony's 2011-12 Centennial Season.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), renowned for its wide-ranging repertoire and adventurous commissioning initiatives, opens its 43rd season with a grand flourish when Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, celebrating his 15th anniversary with the Orchestra, conducts two highly anticipated West Coast premieres and performs as piano soloist on Saturday, September 24, 2011, 8 pm, at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, and Sunday, September 25, 2011, 7 pm, at UCLA's Royce Hall. One of the premieres is Osvaldo Golijov's richly orchestrated Sidereus.

The Met's popular free Summer HD Festival returns for the third year beginning on Saturday, August 27 in Lincoln Center Plaza with Donizetti's Don Pasquale starring Anna Netrebko, conducted by Maestro James Levine.

Due to weather reports that predict hurricane-force winds and rain for New York City this weekend, the Metropolitan Opera has cancelled the first two Summer HD Festival outdoor screenings on Lincoln Center Plaza, originally scheduled for Saturday and Sunday.

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

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.

Tune in to PBS on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. for Live From Lincoln Center's telecast of the New York Philharmonic's Opening Night Gala. Conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, the program will open with Samuel Barber's The School for Scandal Overture of 1931, and will also feature selections from Richard Strauss's Salome and Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser, as well as Barber's Andromache's Farewell.

Tune in to PBS on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at 7:30 p.m.* for Live From Lincoln Center's telecast of the New York Philharmonic's Opening Night Gala.

Imagem Music, one of the world's largest independent music publishing companies and a division of the Imagem Music Group, has announced the extension of its existing agreement with Brenda Richie Publishing, which will see the company take on the exclusive administration of the Lionel Richie catalogue on a pan-European basis.

2011 has already become a defining year in the history of civil rights movements, with the long-awaited legalization of same-sex marriage in New York State.

With four Tony Awards and two Grammy Awards, the Juilliard-trained Audra McDonald returns to performing live full-time this month following four seasons playing Dr. Naomi Bennett on ABC's hit television series Private Practice.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), one of the nation's leading orchestras renowned for its wide-ranging repertoire and adventurous commissioning initiatives, announces the appointment of two outstanding musicians to its ranks: Nico Abondolo assumes the post of principal bass and Chris Stoutenborough assumes the post of second clarinet.

Under the helm of sought after Los Angeles theatre Director Todd Nielsen, the Tony Award-winning Musical 1776 will close at the Glendale Centre Theatre August 13, 2011.

The New York Philharmonic's A Concert for New York, a free performance led by Music Director Alan Gilbert of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, given in remembrance and renewal on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001, will be telecast in the U.S. on Sunday, September 11, 2011, on PBS's Great Performances at 9:00 p.m.

2011 has already become a defining year in the history of civil rights movements, with the long-awaited legalization of same-sex marriage in New York State.

Imagem Music, a division of the Imagem Music Group and home to such talent as Ludacris, Anna Nalick, Phil Collins, Genesis, Steve Robson, French Horn Rebellion, and The Temper Trap, has signed a worldwide, multi-year co-publishing /grand rights agreement with singer/songwriter twin sisters, Mihaela and Gabriela Modorcea p/k/a INDIGGO.

The cast of Paper Mill Playhouse's premiere of a new Disney stage musical, Newsies met the press yesterday, and BroadwayWorld was there for the event! Revolutionary newsie Jack Kelly will be portrayed by Jeremy Jordan of Broadway's West Side Story and Rock of Ages. Tony® Award nominee John Dossett will play newspaper giant Joseph Pulitzer. The show begins performances on Thursday, September 15. The official press opening is scheduled for Sunday, September 25. Check out our video below!

The cast of Paper Mill Playhouse's premiere of a new Disney stage musical, Newsies met the press today, and BroadwayWorld was there for the event! Revolutionary newsie Jack Kelly will be portrayed by Jeremy Jordan of Broadway's West Side Story and Rock of Ages. Tony® Award nominee John Dossett will play newspaper giant Joseph Pulitzer. The show begins performances on Thursday, September 15. The official press opening is scheduled for Sunday, September 25. Check out photos fom the meet and greet below!

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 October 5 through 16 at the BSC Mainstage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield. The press opening is Saturday, October 8 at 8pm.