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The Houston Symphony announced today the details of its free, family-friendly Neighborhood Concerts and ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights. A summer tradition, these evening concerts are held in casual and accessible venues across Greater Houston, bringing the Houston Symphony to people of all ages and backgrounds.

The Houston Symphony and Composer-in-Residence Jimmy Lopez partner with the Rice Shepherd School, the University of Houston (UH) Moores School of Music, and Interfaith Ministries to celebrate the determination and hope of Houston's refugee communities in a project called Resilient Sounds. 

 Point Park University's award-winning Pittsburgh Playhouse is pleased to announce its 2019 - 2020 season which features a compelling lineup of new and classic works, including the Tony Award-winning musical Parade directed by Tony Award-winning alumnus Rob Ashford, the world premiere musical Pump Up the Volume, and the Off-Broadway hit, Good Grief. The season runs from Oct. 10, 2019 - May 7, 2020.

Following an extensive search spanning more than three years, the Houston Symphony and Music Director Andres Orozco-Estrada announce the appointment of Yoonshin Song as its concertmaster and holder of the Max Levine Chair beginning in the 2019?2020 Season. She succeeds Frank Huang in this position, who left the Houston Symphony at the end of the 2015?2016 Season to take an equivalent position with the New York Philharmonic.

The Houston Symphony celebrates the 50th anniversary of the iconic English rock band in the one-night-only program the Music of Led Zeppelin at 7:30 p.m. April 19 at Jones Hall.

Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciar n O'Reilly, Producing Director) announced today special events and programming for the month of May as part of The Sean O'Casey Season, celebrating 30 years of Irish Repertory Theatre. May's events will include a screening of the biographical film Under the Colored Cap by Sean O'Casey's daughter, Shivaun O'Casey; an original concert of songs from O'Casey's plays; and two free scholar-led panels about O'Casey's life that will be livestreamed on Facebook.

The Houston Symphony closes out the 2018-2019 BBVA Compass Family Series with the enchanting Once Upon a Time 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. April 27, with special guests: the student dancers from the Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

The Houston Symphony welcomes back former Principal POPS Conductor Michael Krajewski to Jones Hall in the gravity-defying program Cirque de la Symphonie at 8 p.m. April 26-27 and 2:30 p.m. April 28.

The Houston Symphony celebrates the 50th anniversary of the iconic English rock band in the one-night-only program the Music of Led Zeppelin at 7:30 p.m. April 19 at Jones Hall.

Grammy Award-winning duo Indigo Girls joins the Houston Symphony for a one-night-only performance of their greatest hits at 7:30 p.m. April 10, 2019.

Carmina Burana, Carl Orff's monumental oratorio depicting life, love and lust in medieval times, takes the Jones Hall stage March 29-31 with an all-star cast of soloists, the Houston Symphony Chorus, and rising young conductor Yaniv Dinur?recipient of the prestigious 2019 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award.

Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota presents the Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein Trio with Alon Goldstein, piano, Amit Peled, cello and Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet, Saturday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, April 7, 3:00 p.m., at the Historic Asolo Theater, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota

The Houston Symphony announced today the 2019 2020 Bank of America Summer Sounds lineup at Jones Hall with tickets now on sale. This year's Series melds together symphony music with captivating concert experiences, animated feature films and orchestral arrangements of music by iconic artists. The lineup includes Virtual Reality in Concert: Music Illustrated, The Music of Queen, The Music of Selena and Disney's The Little Mermaid Live in Concert.

The Houston Symphony announced today the 2019-2020 Bank of America Summer Sounds lineup at Jones Hall with tickets now on sale. This year's Series melds together symphony music with captivating concert experiences, animated feature films and orchestral arrangements of music by iconic artists. The lineup includes Virtual Reality in Concert: Music Illustrated, The Music of Queen,The Music of Selena and Disney's "The Little Mermaid" Live in Concert.

Award-winning choreographer and performer SEETA PATEL has re-imagined the iconic ballet, The Rite of Spring in the powerful classical Indian dance style, Bharatanatyam. With a cast of six outstanding performers, the show comes to the Place in London for two nights - May 17th and 18th - as part of a UK tour.

The Houston Symphony announces today that violin star Jennifer Koh is stepping in to perform Esa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Concerto with the Houston Symphony under the baton of former music director Christoph Eschenbach this weekend: 8 p.m., Feb. 28 & March 2, and 2:30 p.m. March 3 at Jones Hall. Koh replaces the previously announced Leila Josefowicz, who is forced to withdraw from the performances due to illness.

Texas native Susan Graham returns to the Houston Symphony to perform a song cycle that has become a signature work for the operatic superstar as part of the all-French program Debussy's La mer + Susan Graham at 8 p.m. March 8 & 9, and 2:30 p.m. March 10. Each concert will be followed by a free, after-hours performance of French chamber music masterpieces.

Irish Repertory Theatre announced today special events and programming for the month of March as part of the The Sean O'Casey Season, a comprehensive retrospective of the work of renowned Irish playwright Sean O'Casey, celebrating 30 years of Irish Repertory Theatre.

Former Houston Symphony Music Director Christoph Eschenbach returns to Houston to lead the orchestra and guest violinist Leila Josefowicz in a work written expressly for her, as well as a towering romantic work by Austrian composer Anton Brucker in the program Eschenbach and Josefowicz at 8 p.m., Feb. 28 & March 2, and 2:30 p.m. March 3.

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day weekend than with romantic songs sung in the indelible style of the "First Lady of American Song" Ella Fitzgerald?! Houston Symphony Principal POPS Conductor Steven Reineke and the Houston Symphony provide the passionate, musical answer to that question with the program The Ella Fitzgerald Songbook, 8 p.m. Feb. 15 & 16 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17.

Just in time for the start of Houston's rodeo season, the Houston Symphony saddles up with the Western-inspired family program Wild, Wild West at 10am and 11:30am on Saturday, Feb. 16 at Jones Hall, featuring students from the Theatre Under the Stars' (TUTS) Humphreys School of Musical Theatre and from TUTS' The River Performing and Visual Arts Center.

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day weekend than with romantic songs sung in the indelible style of the "First Lady of American Song" Ella Fitzgerald?! Houston Symphony Principal POPS Conductor Steven Reineke and the Houston Symphony provide the passionate, musical answer to that question with the program The Ella Fitzgerald Songbook, 8 p.m. Feb. 15 & 16 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 17.

Opera Columbus and ProMusica Chamber Orchestra are partnering to co-produce and co-commission a new chamber opera titled The Flood - a story of loss, human tragedy and redemption set in Columbus. The work represents the first collaboration between the two arts organizations, as well as ProMusica's 67th commissioned work and Opera Columbus' first commission of a new mainstage opera in nearly 20 years.

In a concert inspired by adventure and Spanish exoticism, the Columbus Symphony will perform the Spanish Flamenco Festival at the newly renovated Palace Theatre on March 1 and 2. The auditorium of the 1926 historic venue received a six-month, $2.5 million facelift, and was reopened to the public in November 2018. Guest conducted by John Axelrod, musical director of the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra, the program will feature local flamenco star Griset Damas and the Flamenco Company of Columbus. The full program includes Turina's Danzas fantasticas, Falla's La Vida Breve: Danse Espagnole No. 1, and concludes with the enchanting, rhythmic vitality of Dvo?ak's richly melodic New World Symphony (Symphony No. 9).

Creators Jennifer Schwed and Doug Bradshaw teamed up with composer Charlie Barnett to produce a musical that is sweet, earnest, smart, and sensitive. It may be a lofty goal to hope that '19: The Musical' achieves 'Hamilton'-like heights, but, much like the women it portrays, it's certainly up to the task and should not be underestimated.