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Virginia Opera is wrapping up its 35th Anniversary Season with the scorching production of the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. The production, also celebrating a famous 75th Anniversary, is a brave American classic bridging the gap between Broadway and opera. The clever love story between characters Porgy and Bess explodes with a fiery tempo, amid George and Ira Gershwin's distinguished style featuring jazz, Broadway, and opera. Porgy and Bess is based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and the play of the same name he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward, which focuses on African-American life in the early 1920s in Catfish Row located in Charleston, South Carolina.

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists.

Alban Berg's modernist masterpiece Lulu returns to the Met, starring Marlis Petersen as the scandalous femme fatale and conducted by the Met's newly appointed Principal Guest Conductor Fabio Luisi.

Joe's Pub at the Public Theater (425 Lafayette St.) announces performances from May 24th to the 27th. The week includes CD Releases from Judith Berkson, Pete Francis, and Lauren Kinhan, solo shows from Sean Bradford and Brendan James, along with other performers. Ticket prices range from $12 to $20.

Come pursue the varieties of jazz experience at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem! From conversations and live performances to educational sessions and panel discussions, you're sure to have a ball and learn a lot too.

The Insights & Revelations Performance Series, now in residence at The Emelin Theatre of Mamaroneck, announces its April 22nd, 8:00 p.m. presentation

Come pursue the varieties of jazz experience at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem! From conversations and live performances to educational sessions and panel discussions, you're sure to have a ball and learn a lot too.

The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst return to Carnegie Hall on Friday, May 21st at 8:00 p.m. with a program that juxtaposes Berg's dramatic Lulu Suite - with soprano Erin Morley as soloist - alongside Beethoven's Coriolan Overture and Symphony No. 3, ‘Eroica'.

Riccardo Muti will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Mozart's Symphony No. 34; Boccherini's Cello Concerto in D, G.479, performed by Philharmonic Principal Cello Carter Brey; and Schubert's Symphony No. 4, Tragic, Wednesday and Thursday, April 14-15, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, April 16-17, at 8:00 p.m.

Riccardo Muti will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Mozart's Symphony No. 34; Boccherini's Cello Concerto in D, G.479, performed by Philharmonic Principal Cello Carter Brey; and Schubert's Symphony No. 4, Tragic, Wednesday and Thursday, April 14-15, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, April 16-17, at 8:00 p.m.

Come pursue the varieties of jazz experience at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem! From conversations and live performances to educational sessions and panel discussions, you're sure to have a ball and learn a lot too.

Virginia Opera is wrapping up its 35th Anniversary Season with the scorching production of the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. The production, also celebrating a famous 75th Anniversary, is a brave American classic bridging the gap between Broadway and opera. The clever love story between characters Porgy and Bess explodes with a fiery tempo, amid George and Ira Gershwin's distinguished style featuring jazz, Broadway, and opera. Porgy and Bess is based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and the play of the same name he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward, which focuses on African-American life in the early 1920s in Catfish Row located in Charleston, South Carolina.

TACT/The Actors Company Theatre (Scott Alan Evans, Cynthia Harris and Simon Jones, Co-Artistic Directors), the critically-acclaimed company "dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit," will conclude its 2009/10 season with The Cocktail Party, by T. S. Eliot.

Come pursue the varieties of jazz experience at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem! From conversations and live performances to educational sessions and panel discussions, you're sure to have a ball and learn a lot too.

Get ready to swing as Peter Nero and the Philly Pops take you to the Stage Door Canteen! For this 'Sentimental Journey,' Lynn Roberts, the smooth voice in front of Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, joins Peter and the POPS to celebrate the songs that sent our servicemen away, and then welcomed them back home.

Get ready to swing as Peter Nero and the Philly Pops take you to the Stage Door Canteen! For this 'Sentimental Journey,' Lynn Roberts, the smooth voice in front of Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, joins Peter and the POPS to celebrate the songs that sent our servicemen away, and then welcomed them back home.

Get ready to swing as Peter Nero and the Philly Pops take you to the Stage Door Canteen! For this 'Sentimental Journey,' Lynn Roberts, the smooth voice in front of Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, joins Peter and the POPS to celebrate the songs that sent our servicemen away, and then welcomed them back home.

Come pursue the varieties of jazz experience at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem! From conversations and live performances to educational sessions and panel discussions, you're sure to have a ball and learn a lot too.

Virginia Opera is wrapping up its 35th Anniversary Season with the scorching production of the Gershwins' Porgy and Bess. The production, also celebrating a famous 75th Anniversary, is a brave American classic bridging the gap between Broadway and opera. The clever love story between characters Porgy and Bess explodes with a fiery tempo, amid George and Ira Gershwin's distinguished style featuring jazz, Broadway, and opera. Porgy and Bess is based on DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy and the play of the same name he co-wrote with his wife Dorothy Heyward, which focuses on African-American life in the early 1920s in Catfish Row located in Charleston, South Carolina.

Get ready to swing as Peter Nero and the Philly Pops take you to the Stage Door Canteen! For this 'Sentimental Journey,' Lynn Roberts, the smooth voice in front of Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, joins Peter and the POPS to celebrate the songs that sent our servicemen away, and then welcomed them back home.

Christoph Eschenbach will conduct the New York Philharmonic in a program of music by German and Austrian composers from three centuries: the U.S. Premiere of Matthias Pintscher's towards Osiris, Berg's Violin Concerto with Pinchas Zukerman as soloist, and Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 1, arranged by Schoenberg, Thursday, March 18, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 19, at 2:00 p.m., and Saturday, March 20, at 8:00 p.m.

Christoph Eschenbach will conduct the New York Philharmonic in a program of music by German and Austrian composers from three centuries: the U.S. Premiere of Matthias Pintscher's towards Osiris, Berg's Violin Concerto with Pinchas Zukerman as soloist, and Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 1, arranged by Schoenberg, Thursday, March 18, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 19, at 2:00 p.m., and Saturday, March 20, at 8:00 p.m.

Christoph Eschenbach will conduct the New York Philharmonic in a program of music by German and Austrian composers from three centuries: the U.S. Premiere of Matthias Pintscher's towards Osiris, Berg's Violin Concerto with Pinchas Zukerman as soloist, and Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 1, arranged by Schoenberg, Thursday, March 18, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., Friday, March 19, at 2:00 p.m., and Saturday, March 20, at 8:00 p.m.

The Insights & Revelations Performance Series, now in residence at The Emelin Theatre of Mamaroneck, announces its April 22nd, 8:00 p.m. presentation

Riccardo Muti will conduct the New York Philharmonic in Mozart's Symphony No. 34; Boccherini's Cello Concerto in D, G.479, performed by Philharmonic Principal Cello Carter Brey; and Schubert's Symphony No. 4, Tragic, Wednesday and Thursday, April 14-15, 2010, at 7:30 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, April 16-17, at 8:00 p.m.