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  Disney Music Hits Royal Albert Hall

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  Alan Menken and the cast of Aladdin will appear in Disney’s Broadway Hits in October whatsonstage.com A Disney concert which celebrates 20 years of musical productions will receive its European premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in October. Disney’s Broadway Hits will feature songs from shows including The Lion King, The Little Mermaid and Mary Poppins. The line up for the event includes the West End cast of Aladdin, as well as the show’s composer and Oscar winner Alan Menken. […]

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  Brevard Music Center opens 80th season with a swing

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  Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, performing the concerto in Brevard on Friday (June 24), said that many a classical pianist has struggled with Gershwin’s jazz-inspired work.

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  Demi Lovato & Nick Jonas To Perform At Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular On CBS

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  Multi-talented superstars Demi Lovato and Nick Jonas will perform on the BOSTON POPS FIREWORKS SPECTACULAR, a two-hour entertainment special to be broadcast live from the Charles River Esplanade in Boston, Monday, July 4 (9:00-11:00 PM, live ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network.

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  VIDEO: Watch a video of MacFarlane singing “Fabulous Places:”

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  Seth MacFarlane — creator of the “Family Guy” cartoon and “Ted,” both of which feature spectacularly raunchy humor — can also hold his own singing the Great American Songbook. McFarlane performed with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall on Friday night to open the season, singing tunes from his Grammy-nominated album “No One Ever Tells You.” He will also appear with the orchestra at Tanglewood on July 10.

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  Boston Pops delight with eclectic opener

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  You know it’s a special kind of evening when Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart cracks jokes and Seth MacFarlane makes music. And when the rafters of Symphony Hall are filled with the majestic strains of Led Zeppelin.

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  Keith Lockhart walked down a familiar road in Hong Kong

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  Keith Lockhart walked down a familiar road in Hong Kong after his performance with Time for Three and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra last month. Perhaps we’ll get to see some of these disco dance moves during the “Classic Rock from the Beatles to Led Zeppelin” concerts on Tuesday, May 10 and Wednesday, May 11?

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  Amy Grant performs at Brevard Music Center’s 80th anniversary spectacular, June 25

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  Brevard Music Center is proud to announce the appearance of platinum-selling recording artist and six-time Grammy® winner Amy Grant at its BMC Presents: 80th Anniversary Spectacular – Saturday, June 25 at 7:30 PM at Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium (WPA). Grant will make her BMC debut alongside Artistic Director Keith Lockhart and the Brevard Music Center Orchestra in the most elaborate, fully staged concert production ever seen on the WPA stage.

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  2016 Spring Pops Season – TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

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  The 2016 Seasion includes film scores of the silver screen, ballads from Broadway and the great American Songbook, classic rock anthems, and a Gospel Night spectacular, along with an impressive lineup of Boston Pops debuts, new programs that spotlight the best of the worlds of dance and puppetry, and the return of last year’s audience favorite, Pops On Demand: You Choose the Tunes.

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  ‘Star Wars,’ Bowie tributes top Boston Pops’ spring lineup

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  The beloved orchestra announced its spring concert schedule on Friday, and it’s a star-studded lineup.

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  Brevard Music Center Sets 2016 Summer Music Festival, 80th Anniversary Events

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  Brevard, NC — This summer, over a ten-week period spanning June to August, Brevard Music Center (BMC) celebrates a historic 80th Anniversary with over eighty performances in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. BMC’s 2016 Summer Music Festival features a number of firsts-the operatic world-premiere of Falling Angel, an inaugural Jazz Institute, and a Dvo?ák in America Festival-in addition to an array of world-class artists including Grammy-winning banjo legend Béla Fleck, acclaimed pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and esteemed BMC alumni.

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