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Berg to direct 'Hercules' : "Hancock" director Peter Berg is spearheading a fresh take on Hercules for Universal.

Sidney Herald A change in the current health reimbursement arrangement, or HRA, appears to be a key in teacher contract talks with the Sidney School Board and Sidney Education Association.

It's fine for Joe Queenan to dislike contemporary music. But I wonder where he's been for the last 30 years July 9, 2008 10:30 AM Lord.

NEW YORK -- Outside the Park Avenue Armory, a bevy of security staff waved taxis to the curb with lighted wands, like the ground crew at an airport, while people in the crowd around the steps brandished "Need 1 Ticket" signs or mumbled their requests at passersby with confidential hopelessness. Inside, the huge space was filled with metal scaffolding supporting seating for almost 1,000 people, mounted on railroad-like tracks calibrated to hairbreadth measurements to enable the whole structure to move the audience back and forth soundlessly along a runway-like stage.

The concept of feedback is illustrated in an April 20, 2008 New York Times report : an extraordinary noise-related argument between the conductor and the Bern Symphony Orchestra disrupted the opening night of ...

Although Berg lived his entire life in Vienna, Berlin was the scene of his greatest success -- the premiere of Wozzeck , on December 14, 1925.

French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, center, poses with Betty Catroux, left, and Loulou de la Falaise outside his Rive Gauche boutique in London in 1969.

Alicia Keys . What: At Summer Jam with Kanye West, Rihanna, T-Pain, Public Enemy, Lil Wayne , D-Block , Ray J and Yung Berg, The-Dream. Where: Giants Stadium, East Rutherford.

The Rochester International Jazz Festival ticket shop has opened at East Avenue and Gibbs Street, with hours from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. Saturdays.

“The Last September"; released theatrically in USA in 2000 1996 New York stage directorial debut, reprising work on "The Waste Land", starring Shaw 1995 Helmed "Richard II”

This brilliant young British stage and opera director is best-known for her dazzling and daring takes on the works of Shakespeare, Sophocles, Bach, Berg, Beckett, Brecht and Ibsen--and for her long-time working ... via Hollywood.com

Camilla Tilling, left, and Helene Schneiderman in "Le Nozze di Figaro," set in an office lobby. via New York Times

Gerard Mortier , the brilliant Belgian-born director of major European music festivals and opera houses, is poised to shake up the cultural scene in New York when he takes charge of the New York City Opera in ... via New York Times

“My father is a musician, my grandfather is a musician and my mother is a musician. So definitely, before I spoke, I heard music in our house. I slept under the piano as my father would play”

Six-time classical recording artist and UA piano professor Jura Margulis will perform his annual recital 7 p.m. Friday in the Baum Walker Hall at the Walton Arts Center. via The Arkansas Traveler Online

“This is where we make a new start.”

WILLIAM R. BRAUN examines the moment on which the fate of Britten's Peter Grimes turns - the doomed fisherman's Act II confrontation with Ellen Orford. via Opera News

James Levine conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra Thursday with violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Peter Serkin. via The Boston Globe

For more than 30 years, the Alban Berg Quartet has performed regularly in music capitals and major festivals throughout the world. via Ithaca Journal

Hugo Wolf String Quartet Ensemble Music Society Indiana History Center Feb. 6 Sometimes it isn't how well you play as much as what it is you're playing. via Nuvo Newsweekly

There are parallels between the Canadian Opera Company's current production of Leos Jancek's From the House of the Dead and a searing two-year-old production of Alban Berg's Wozzeck at the Gran Teatre del Liceu ... via The Toronto Star

“A daily plague, which in the aggregate / May average on the whole with parturition.”

I. As Sweeney Todd croons to his razor, "My friend, my faithful friend," more in love with its sharp blade than with Mrs. via New Republic