John Williams News

 The York Symphony Orchestra will present, "The Music of John Williams: 85th Birthday Celebration" onSaturday, Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center in York. The performance will feature popular movie soundtracks in celebration of legendary film composer John Williams' 85th birthday. This Pops Series concert will kick off the orchestra's 2016-2017 season, A Musical Journey Through Time.

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra begins its 2016-17 season on Sept. 17. After well-received summer concerts, JoAnn Falletta brings Western New York a new season filled with drama, theatrics, superstars and rising stars.

Celebrate America's premier composer of film music as the Hershey Symphony Orchestra opens its season with The Soundtracks of John Williams, Saturday, September 17, 2016 at 8 p.m. at The Hershey Theatre.

Star Wars Fandom will soon go into hyperdrive with the television premiere of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS on Saturday, September 10 at 9 PM ET/PT exclusively on STARZ.

The Richmond Symphony invites you to enjoy a free outdoor concert on Saturday, September 10 at 6:00pm at the beautiful Pocahontas State Park in Chesterfield, VA. Bring a blanket, picnic basket and family and friends, and enjoy the sounds of live music in an outdoor setting.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven's Symphony No. 5; Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; and Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre, for Trumpet and Orchestra, featuring Principal Trumpet Christopher Martin in his Philharmonic solo debut, Wednesday, October 5, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. Alan Gilbert and the Orchestra will perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, with Lang Lang as soloist; Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; and Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre, with Principal Trumpet Christopher Martin as soloist, Thursday, October 6, 2016, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, October 7 at 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday, October 8 at 8:00 p.m.

Award-winning French composer and pianist Nicolas Mazmanian will give his first piano recital in North America, French Reflections on the American Dream, at the Colburn School's Mayman Hall in Downtown Los Angeles on Friday, September 9, 2016. The program features Mazmanian's original classical compositions for piano, which invite the audience into a world of fantasy, dreams, and inner romanticism. Mazmanian's accessible melodic music reflects the strong influence of French, Armenian, and American composers.

Grammy award winning CD project to record Dutilleux's most important symphonic works with Seattle Symphony

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Beethoven's Symphony No. 5; Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta; and Ligeti's Mysteries of the Macabre, for Trumpet and Orchestra, featuring Principal Trumpet Christopher Martin in his Philharmonic solo debut, Wednesday, October 5, 2016, at 7:30 p.m.

For the first time in its history, EVITA, this revolutionary Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical is being produced by Cabrillo Music Theatre. 

The Washington Pavilion is excited to welcome the Boston Pops, the most recorded and arguably the most beloved orchestra in the country, to the Mary W. Sommervold Hall at 8 p.m. on Monday, March 27, 2017.

Michael Feinstein and the Pasadena POPS close their popular outdoor summer concert series at the Los Angeles County Arboretum on Saturday, September 10 with A Salute to Warner Bros.! The POPS season finale will provide a quintessential Feinstein experience with a showcase of singers and dancers recreating songs from films adapted from Broadway musicals The Music Man, Gypsy, and 42nd Street among others. The orchestra will also perform timeless instrumental favorites from the silver screen like John Williams' theme from the original Superman, and who can forget the iconic Warner Bros. theme from Looney Tunes.

The NSO Pops and Principal Pops Conductor Steven Reineke welcome one of the world's premier comedy troupes, The Second City, with renowned improvisational comedian Colin Mochrie, to the Kennedy Center Concert Hall for three performances to open the 2016-17 NSO Pops season, September 15-17, 2016. The Second City Guide to the Symphony is a live performance featuring a blend of original sketch comedy, new music and songs by Matthew Reid, and orchestral works by Mozart, Mahler, Glinka, and more.

The Boston Pops Esplande Orchestra comes to Jacksonville's Times-Union Center on Saturday, February 4, 2017 at 8 p.m. for one performance only.

Individual tickets to all concerts in the 2016-17 Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra season will be available on Saturday, Aug. 13. After a well-received summer season, the BPO is looking forward to a regular season full of highlights.

War Paint has become the most successful musical in Goodman Theatre's history, extended (for a second and final time) through August 21.

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced the program for the free community concert for the At Home in Hough neighborhood residency today, August 11, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at East Professional Center (formerly East High School). 

On Saturday, Aug. 13 from 10 a.m. to noon, Lawrence Golan, music director and conductor of the York Symphony Orchestra, will offer a performance at Central Market in York. Accompanying him at market will be Ken Osowski, associate professor and coordinator of piano and music theory studies at York College of Pennsylvania. The pair will perform four, 15 to 20 minute sets on the violin and piano starting at 10 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. These performances will showcase pieces that Maestro Golan will perform with the York Symphony Orchestra throughout the 2016-2017 season, A Musical Journey Through Time.

The New York Philharmonic's box office opens today, August 9, 2016, for the 2016-17 season.

David Mamet, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and author of Glengarry Glen Ross, a play which is now on stage at Blank Canvas, is noted for his unique style of writing dialogue. Dubbed 'Mamet speak,' his vocal tone centers on precisely crafted street-smart narrative style. His characters talk 'real.' They sound like the way people from the geographical area and societal level from which they come would really speak. This is not 'speech for a play,' it is actual people speaking, with vocalized pauses ('ums,' 'you know,' and 'things like that.'