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Mahler, The Complete Symphonies, L. Bernstein Sony Classical 88697 45369 2 When it comes to Gustav Mahler, I always defer to Jens Laurson, who is running an excellent and definitive overview of recordings of the Mahler symphonies for WETA's Mahler Month at the moment.

By Alice T. Carter , TRIBUNE-REVIEW THEATER CRITIC Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Last updated: 6:42 pm For Karla Boos and Andres Cladera, the vacant repair shop of a former auto dealership is the best of all possible worlds in which to stage a musical.

Nicole Kaplan, left, and John Wascavage in Quantum Theatre's "Candide." Quantum Theatre stages classics and plays that are largely unknown, often American premieres, in places no one thought to stage them before.

The stage for Quantum Theatre's production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide is oval, just like a racetrack.

The Yorba Linda Symphony Orchestra has expanded beyond it original boundaries and has grown into a new name, The Southern California Philharmonic.

Move over, Folklife. Make room, Bumbershoot. Seattle, which never met a festival it couldn't embrace , will get to enjoy "Seattle Celebrates Bernstein" from April through June of next year.

Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers, including soloist Seth Orza, center, as Riff, play it "Cool" in Jerome Robbins' "West Side Story Suite." DANCE PREVIEW 'Director's Choice' Performed by the Pacific Northwest Ballet, Thursday-Nov. 15, McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., Seattle; $25-$160; . Can't get enough of "West Side Story"? Neither could its composer, ...

Leonard Bernstein was larger than life - conductor , Broadway composer and TV pioneer whose long-running Young People's Concerts helped make him one of the 20th century's most eminent, visible and irresistible musical talents and communicators.

TOKYO - 'Lights, camera, action.' The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is familiar with those words - but not in Japanese.

On Friday, the Southwest Symphony Orchestra kicked off its 2009-10 season, titled 'The Wonderful World of Music,' with its 'Treasures From the New World' production.

For frenziedly creative polymaths, the French may have Jean Cocteau, but the Jews have Belarus-born Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport, who wrote poems, fiction, ethnography and plays under the pen name S. An-sky . Of these, indubitably the most famous is An-sky's still-popular 1914 Russian play "The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds," the story of a young bride ...

Elmer Bernstein is one of the most respected names in Hollywood film music making.

"I think at heart I am really a teacher, as well as a performer," he said. "The teaching never stops from the podium - I think that's the way Bernstein thought, too." Markward, the third candidate for the position of music director of the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, will conduct the community orchestra in music of Mozart, Beethoven and Prokofiev, ...

We have at our disposal here, in this great borough of Brooklyn, some of the finest theater in the city.

HACKENSACK a ' Legendary promoter Sid Bernstein, famous for introducing The Beatles to American audiences, joined the Bergen County School of Rock musicians Sunday for a charity concert at Hackensack University Medical Center.

The Quantum Theatre will set their next venture, Bernstein's CANDIDE, in the former Don Allen Auto City.

By Alison Beshur Times Features Editor alison.beshur dailytimes.com To mark the first classical concert series in the Symphony of the Hills' 2009-10 season, the group has gone back to the basics - Beethoven, Bach and Brahms.

"On the Town," Leonard Bernstein's and Jerome Robbins' dance spectacular, will sail onto the Paper Mill Playhouse stage in time for the holidays.

" There are six very good reasons in October to be optimistic in Brooklyn Heights.

Baritone Ralph Cato and violinist Jessie Chen proved to be big hits Saturday night at the Torrance Symphony's season-opening performance, the kick-off of the orchestra's 25th-anniversary season.