Napa Valley Opera House will present 34th annual San Francisco international comedy competition on Friday, September 11, 2009, at 8 PM.

Utah Symphony, Salt Lake City will present an evening of Beethoven at Abravanel Hall conducted by Matthias Bamert, violin by Jennifer Frautschi.

Napa Valley Opera House will present Mardi Gras Mambo - Dr. John & The Lower 911 with Aaron Neville & The Neville Brothers.

Opera North, England will present "The Idea of North: Winterreise" scheduled for play in autumn 2009.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra announces its presentation of Distant Worlds: Music from FINAL FANTASY, on Thursday, October 8, 2009, at the newly renovated Orpheum Theatre. The concert will feature Nobuo Uematsu’s award-winning music from Square Enix’s enormously successful FINAL FANTASY video game series, performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Grammy award-winner Arnie Roth.

Massachusetts Museum Of Contemporary Art will play Balthrop, Alabama on Saturday, August 29, 2009, 8:00 pm, at Pavilion or Club B-10.

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is to be joined by four amazing singers at its huge ABBA Symphonic Spectacular in Meyrick Park on Saturday 8 August.

Massachusetts Museum Of Contemporary Art Julia Greenberg Sings Dory Previn In an Alt Cabaret Performance (North Adams, Massachusetts) MASS MoCA fans will remember Julia Greenberg from her co-starring role in People Are Wrong, a rock opera with They Might Be Giants founder John Flansburgh.

Janet Planet will sing her new jazz album at Thrasher Opera House, Wisconsin on 11/27/2009.

Massachusetts Museum Of Contemporary Art will present a concert of Son Lux with Joshue Ott on Friday, September 4, 2009, 8:00 pm, at Club B-10.

Massachusetts Museum Of Contemporary Art will play Bang on a Can Marathon on Saturday, August 1, 2009, 4:00 pm, at Hunter Center.

On August 14, the Guggenheim Museum launches It Came from Brooklyn, a new monthly concert series that will showcase Brooklyn’s emerging and established talents in the fields of music and literature as part of the museum’s 50th Anniversary celebrations.