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Today, The Cleveland Orchestra announced program details for the 27th annual, free community concert in downtown Cleveland, which will be on Friday, July 29 at 9:00 p.m. This year's Star-Spangled Spectacular brought to you by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture and sponsored by KeyBank celebrates the newly renovated Public Square and is the first event of this type in the space.

Rockabilly, country, and blues fans, rejoice. Elvis fans, look sharp. The greatest recording event in history is happening at Dutch Apple through June 19, and you can be there.

The University of Pennsylvania's century-old band in a march arrangement of HAMILTON's anthem of ambition.

Atlantic City Ballet celebrates the beginning of spring with 3 ballets that are making their premier in AC. American Songbook is a salute to three American composers, each with its unique perspective and interpretation on American life. The three ballets on the program represent the most well-known music of these composers and represent a slice of American life.

In THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN MUSICAL, Jack Viertel takes about musicals, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love with the art form all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next-by design or by accident, by emulation or by rebellion from OKLAHOMA! to HAMILTON and onward.

Atlantic City Ballet celebrates the beginning of spring with 3 ballets that are making their premier in AC. American Songbook is a salute to three American composers, each with its unique perspective and interpretation on American life. The three ballets on the program represent the most well-known music of these composers and represent a slice of American life.

The Lambs is America's First Professional Theatrical Club, established in New York in 1874. As a social club, The Lambs is a social gathering place for entertainment industry and art professionals. Performers, directors, writers, artists and technicians of the entertainment industry gather to celebrate their commonality, in a place where they come to enjoy each others' company, and to display and hone their crafts in an atmosphere of creativity and support, and to nurture creative endeavors, boasting members such as Fred Astaire, Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, W.C. Fields and John Philip Sousa.  The Lambs is also a historical society preserving and promoting a remarkable 140+ year history. 

Captain Jack Sparrow and 1980s big hair rock will help Adelaide Youth Orchestras end 2015 on a high note on November 29, when 250 of South Australia's best young musicians come together on stage for the company's Gala Concert: AdYO Celebrates at Elder Hall.

The next chapter in Tori Amos' trailblazing career, THE LIGHT PRINCESS musical cast recording was released October 9 on Mercury Classics/Universal Music Classics.

The cast recording of Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson's musical THE LIGHT PRINCESS, which originally premiered in 2013 at the National Theatre in London, was released last week. But Amos has even bigger plans for the show.

Below, get a first listen to Tori Amos' performance of 'Darkest Hour' from the Original Cast Recording of THE LIGHT PRINCESS, a musical by Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson.

The Mercury Classics/Universal Music Classics cast recording of Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson's THE LIGHT PRINCESS, which premiered in 2013 at the National Theatre in London, is available today, October 9, 2015.

The Light Princess is the next chapter in Tori Amos' trailblazing career and Amos' first musical that debuted to great critical acclaim at the UK's National Theatre in 2013.  The anticipated cast album will be released on October 9 on Mercury Classics/Universal Music Classics. 

For two performances only today, September 26th the Bucks County Playhouse is proud to exclusively host exclusively the Brothers of the Battlefield's, RODNEY MARSALIS PHILADELPHIA BIG BRASS BAND at 2pm and 8pm.

For two performances only on Saturday, September 26th the Bucks County Playhouse is proud to exclusively host exclusively the Brothers of the Battlefield's, RODNEY MARSALIS PHILADELPHIA BIG BRASS BAND at 2pm and 8pm.

BroadwayWorld is excited to report that Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson's THE LIGHT PRINCESS, which premiered in 2013 at the National Theatre in London, is getting a cast recording! From Mercury Classics/Universal Music Classics, THE LIGHT PRINCESS cast album will be released on October 9, 2015.

Mercury Classics/Universal Music Classics is set to release the cast album of The Light Princess on October 9.  Called 'magical' by the UK's Independent, the musical by Tori Amos and Samuel Adamson debuted at the National Theatre in London in the fall of 2013. 

Orange County, Calif.—July 7, 2015—“Symphony in the Cities” is not only the perfect way to end a lazy summer day, but it's also Pacific Symphony's way of saying thanks to the community by throwing a big party with music for its Orange County neighbors! Each summer, thousands gather with their loved ones to enjoy listening to the orchestra in a relaxed outdoor setting. This season, in addition to patriotic fare and classical pieces, Music Director Carl St.Clair has invited five singers to pay tribute to the famous von Trapps by performing memorable songs from one of the most beloved musicals of all time, “The Sound of Music.” Members of the audience also have a special opportunity to decide which of three well-known excerpts they would like to hear: Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” Mozart's “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music),” or Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Families are encouraged to bring picnics, blankets and chairs and arrive early for the Symphony's Musical Playground and city festivities. 

Orange County, Calif.—July 7, 2015—“Symphony in the Cities” is not only the perfect way to end a lazy summer day, but it's also Pacific Symphony's way of saying thanks to the community by throwing a big party with music for its Orange County neighbors! Each summer, thousands gather with their loved ones to enjoy listening to the orchestra in a relaxed outdoor setting. This season, in addition to patriotic fare and classical pieces, Music Director Carl St.Clair has invited five singers to pay tribute to the famous von Trapps by performing memorable songs from one of the most beloved musicals of all time, “The Sound of Music.” Members of the audience also have a special opportunity to decide which of three well-known excerpts they would like to hear: Dvorák's Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” Mozart's “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music),” or Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Families are encouraged to bring picnics, blankets and chairs and arrive early for the Symphony's Musical Playground and city festivities. 

Make Music Day announces full lineup of more than 2,250 free, outdoor musical events taking place in 23 U.S. cities