Paganini News

By CHRIS SHULL FORT WORTH - The Metropolitan Classical Ballet presented 150 years of ballet at Bass Hall on Saturday.

Night at the Ballet Metropolitan Classical Ballet presents its Summer Repertory at Bass Hall.

Marianna Ryzhkina, principal ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, will be a guest artist with Metropolitan Classical Ballet Saturday in Bass Performance Hall.

LAB na Mainistreach in Dingle will be the venue on Friday for a concert by Duo Chagall who will play works by Mozart, Raymond Deane, Mihaud, Paganini, Benjamin Britten and Handel.

A few years ago, trade stories intimated that the Australian director Bruce Beresford, best known for "Breaker Morant" and "Driving Miss Daisy," was considering a biographical movie about the great Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff.

The Louisville Orchestra's 2009-10 season will largely de-emphasize big-name soloists in favor of highlighting the ensemble's own players.

Twyla Tharp is among the top choreographers to emerge in the past half-century, and Kansas City Ballet has distinguished itself as an interpreter of her works.

There's a chandelier in Benjamin Millepied's 28 Variations on a Theme by Paganini .