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If you grew up in the '60s or '70s and loved music, you couldn't get away from Leonard Bernstein.

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.

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.

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

Even with a roof solidly overhead and four walls protecting from the cold night, Emory University Symphony Orchestra took Saturday night's crowd on an astrological tour of Gustav Holst's The Planets .

Gil Seeley has led the Oregon Repertory Singers for 34 of its 36 years. TrackMoves> 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false omposition professor at Lewis & Clark College, evoked the poem's images of sun and barn, dreams and magic, beginning in a wordless swirl of overlapping pitches and ending on an open chord.

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

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 ...

Des Moines Symphony, Japanese drummers update old traditions. Eastern and Western musicians were trading ideas even before Marco Polo trudged down the Silk Road, but two programs this weekend in Des Moines and Ames highlight East-West collaborations are unmistakably modern.

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.

" 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.

Say "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" and the first thought that comes to most minds is more likely to be "heavy" than "nuanced." Yet nuanced was the standout characteristic of the Grand Rapids Symphony's dynamic reading of the masterwork under Music Director David Lockington Friday night in a Richard and Helen DeVos Classical Series concert rippling ...

The Birmingham Royal Ballet will bring its lavish production of "Swan Lake" to the United States next year.

The Allentown Symphony Orchestra opened its classical concert season Saturday evening at Symphony Hall with a program of familiar works by four legendary American composers.

East Stroudsburg University's Department of Music will present a faculty recital featuring tenor James Maroney with pianist Thomas Goeman and violist Marsha Cahn, at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Cecilia S. Cohen Recital Hall of the Fine and Performing Arts Center on Normal street.

With the crack of a whip and a blast of fresh air, a new era has begun for the nation's oldest orchestra.

He made his name with West Side Story, but Leonard Bernstein was also one of the 20th century's greatest music teachers.

The New York Philharmonic 's new music director, Alan Gilbert, is the first native-born New Yorker to hold a post held by such luminaries as Gustav Mahler and Leonard Bernstein.

As the Southbank Centre prepares to celebrate the work of Leonard Bernstein, Boyd Tonkin reflects on the impression left by the composer and recalls a memorable encounter with the great man himself Getty Composed: Leonard Bernstein at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank in 1970 enlarge In spite of the endless weekends and evenings lost ...