Mark Van Doren News

Mondo.NYC, a global music and tech business summit and live showcase festival, has announced the addition of hip hop legend Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels as a panel speaker and award-winning Canadian rockers Our Lady Peace as a showcase performer.

Melodia Women's Choir, New York's premier ensemble for women's choral music led by artistic director Cynthia Powell, closes out its 15th anniversary season with an all-American program THE HARMONY OF MORNING, titled from the rarely heard Elliott Carter composition by the same name for women's chorus and chamber orchestra.

Variety writes that stage and small screen actor Walter Roy Beery passed away on April 6 due to complications from lymphoma. He was 75.

The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts today announced the recipients of the 2009 Sally Ordway Irvine Awards. As in the past, four leading individuals or organizations from Minnesota's arts community were acknowledged for their outstanding contributions to the state's cultural life.