John Adams News

The Hartt School of the University of Hartford will present its annual Collage Concert on Friday and Saturday, February 17 and 18, at 7:30 PM in Lincoln Theater, on the University of Hartford's West Hartford campus, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra President Stanley E. Romanstein, Ph.D., announced today that the contract for Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles will be extended for two years, through the 2013-14 season.

Octavarius, a Chicago comedy company, and CNGM Pictures, a Chicago independent film organization, partner for transmedia project 'I Made America,' launching on January 18, 2012.

The Irving Berlin Music Company has just re-signed its ongoing representation agreement with the Imagem Music Group/Rodgers & Hammerstein for international brand management and grand rights exploitation, and music publishing in North America.

It is Done, the dark and dirty comedy/thriller by award-winning playwright Alex Goldberg about the secrets we keep, returns for a limited run at The Mean Fiddler Bar & Grill in midtown Manhattan on January 18, 19, 22, 23 & 24, 2012 only. Doors open at 6:30 for food and libations with a starting time of 7:30. Each ticket includes one free drink. Show time on Sunday, January 22 is at 2pm. Doors will open at 1pm.

A new production of Gotterdammerung, the final opera in Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen, will open January 27 in a performance led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi and directed by Robert Lepage.

The second LA Phil Green Umbrella 2011/12 season concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall focuses on the music of one of America's greatest living composers, Steve Reich, Tuesday, January 17, at 8 pm.

Tickets are now on sale for Kelrik Production's Pinkalicious, the Musical, playing January 21 - February 5 at Unity (1490 Southwood Drive in San Luis Obispo). Based on the 2006 New York Times best-selling children's book by Victoria and Elizabeth Kann, Pinkalicious is the tale of a girl who can't stop eating pink cupcakes despite her parents' warnings about the dangers of over-indulgence. Her passion for pink lands her at the doctor's office with pinkititis, an affliction that turns her pink from head to toe -- a dream come true for this pink-loving enthusiast. But when her hue goes too far, only Pinkalicious can figure a way out of her predicament.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) has appointed Andrew Norman composer-in-residence for three years beginning July 2012, it was announced by Music Director Jeffrey Kahane

John Denver: The Tribute with Jon Adams Band plays the Colonial Theater, Idaho Falls on Friday, March 9 at 7pm.

Artist Dana Schutz will open Gotterdammerung, a new exhibition presented in conjunction with the final opera in Wagner's epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, at the Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met on January 12.

The Collegiate Chorale is set to present Tippett's A Child of Our Time and Bruckner's Te Deum on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Avenue, NYC.

The second LA Phil Green Umbrella 2011/12 season concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall focuses on the music of one of America's greatest living composers, Steve Reich, Tuesday, January 17, at 8 pm.

In their 2011-12 Centennial Season Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT) and the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) will break new ground with a far-reaching month-long American Mavericks Festival of music by pioneers of the American sound at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco March 8-18; on a national tour to Ann Arbor, Chicago and Carnegie Hall through March 30; and with educational partnerships, experiential learning and a host of new media tools to engage audiences in this music.

It is Done, the dark and dirty comedy/thriller by award-winning playwright Alex Goldberg about the secrets we keep, returns for a limited run at The Mean Fiddler Bar & Grill in midtown Manhattan on January 18, 19, 22, 23 & 24, 2012 only. Want a sneak peek at the production? Click below!

OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, has announced that it has awarded nearly $200,000 in Audience Development grants, as part of The Opera Fund, to 16 U.S. opera companies.

It is Done, the dark and dirty comedy/thriller by award-winning playwright Alex Goldberg about the secrets we keep, returns for a limited run at The Mean Fiddler Bar & Grill in midtown Manhattan on January 18, 19, 22, 23 & 24, 2012 only. Doors open at 6:30 for food and libations with a starting time of 7:30. Each ticket includes one free drink. Show time on Sunday, January 22 is at 2pm. Doors will open at 1pm.

Music for the American Wing- a weekend of events- marks the completed renovation of the New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture.

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