In a performance showcasing some of the best talent in jazz and bluegrass today, Mark O'Connor's own "Hot Swing" pairs up with jazz vocalist Sophie Milman and the Punch Brothers featuring mandolin master Chris Thile for one night only. The performance will take place Wednesday, July 2, at 7:30 p.m. and will mark the third program of Seattle Symphony SummerFest which runs from June 26 through July 14 and celebrates some of the best artists in classical, jazz, bluegrass and more.

In his final solo performance as Seattle Symphony's Principal Cellist, Joshua Roman will join his colleagues and Maestro Schwarz for four performances of Ernst Bloch's rhapsodic lament, Schelomo.

Members and Friends of CareToLive took to the streets in 10 cities across America on May 30, 2008. Why? To continue to tell the story about how some folks at the FDA were busy serving themselves when they were supposed to be serving the people of this great nation. To continue to tell the story about how 30,000 men, today, are in desperate need of a treatment for their prostate cancer, and how the FDA wrongly denied them some help.

Seattle Symphony and Seattle International Film Festival come together to bring audiences the epic tale of the legendary Russian hero Alexander Nevsky. Chinese-American conductor Xian Zhang will lead the Orchestra in Sergey Prokofiev's sweeping score as the film is shown on a large screen above the stage.

In a move designed to reach new audiences through innovative programming during the summer season, Seattle Symphony today announced preliminary plans for Seattle Symphony SummerFest 2008, in collaboration with Mark O'Connor, a composer and violinist heralded as a leader of a new American classical music style. The festival will be presented June 26 through July 14, at Benaroya Hall.

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Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past will shed new light on one of art history’s most important movements when it opens at the Seattle Art Museum on June 19, 2008 and will run through September 21, 2008.

Experience Music Project|Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (EMP|SFM) is proud to announce a new exhibition, Robots: A Designer's Collection of Miniature Mechanical Marvels. The exhibition celebrates society's long fascination with humankind's technological version of itself. The exhibition is drawn from a one-of-a-kind assemblage of toy robots, which noted graphic designer Tom Geismar has been collecting for decades.

On Friday, May 30, at 8 p.m., Gerard Schwarz will lead members of Seattle Symphony and community musicians in a chamber concert featuring the music of top contemporary immigrant composers. Three of the six composers will be present for the performance, including Bulgarian-born Henri Lazarof, and two Seattle-based composers, French-born Joël-Francois Durand and Brazilian-born Jovino Santos Neto.

The Seattle Art Museum is launching a new contemporary art exhibition program entitled SAM Next. The program will present a series of three exhibitions each year introducing audiences to emerging or underappreciated artists working in the Northwest, around the United States and internationally.

Seattle Symphony and Cornish College of the Arts come together for a staged production of The Little Mahagonny, Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's dramatic tale of human vice and corruption on Thursday, June 5, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, June 7, at 8 p.m.

On Thursday, May 29, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, May 31, at 8 p.m., Gerard Schwarz will lead Seattle Symphony and The University of Washington Chorale in what will be the first complete public performance of the Genesis Suite since its 1945 premiere. Originally lost in a fire, the recently reconstructed Genesis Suite is a 20th-century masterpiece that boasts the work of seven leading composers of the day, among them Arnold Schönberg and Igor Stravinsky.