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Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues the 2013-14 season with four exciting POP-UP CONCERTS: Thursday, February 6, 2014, Ensemble Signal; Tuesday, March 4, Ekmeles - Miller Theatre debut; Tuesday, April 1, Tony Arnold and Jacob Greenberg; Tuesday, May 6, Juilliard415 - Miller Theatre debut

The opening concert of the St David's Anglican Church, Burnside, 2014 concert season will be a program of exquisite Baroque music presented by visiting German trumpeter, Marco Frizenschaf, Soprano Trudie Jackson and St David's Music Director, Organist, Ray Booth.

The World Music Institute is thrilled to present, along with the Apollo Theater, the second edition of Africa Now! —a weekend festival with a focus on today's African music scene, featuring artists who draw upon their roots for inspiration, and transplant them into the global music landscape.

Like all the great religions, Vodou has an external, public practice of rituals and ceremonies, and also an internal, mystical dimension. Before Nan Dòmi, works about Vodou have concentrated on the spectacular outward manifestations of its observance—hypnotic drumming and chanting, frenetic dancing, fits of spirit possession. But practically all reports on Vodou are outsider accounts, which means that they are stopped at the threshold. This is the only telling of Vodou's private, mystical practice available, spoken from Vodou's purest heart.

On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 7:30pm at Opera America's National Opera Center, New York Festival of Song opens the 2013-14 edition of its forward-looking NYFOS Next series with MARK ADAMO & FRIENDS.

The 2014 Festival will take place from 17 May to 24 August 2014 and includes three new productions: Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera, Verdi's La Traviata and revivals of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Mozart's Don Giovanni and Handel's Rinaldo.

Pexip, a global disrupter in scalable video conferencing technology, today announced that the Cleveland Museum of Art is deploying Pexip Infinity to scale their distance learning programs.

Widely acknowledged as one of the most talented photographers of the 19th century, Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879) was commissioned by the city of Paris to document both the picturesque, medieval streets of old Paris and the broad boulevards and grand public structures that Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann built in their place for Emperor Napoleon III. Charles Marville, Photographer of Paris at The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a selection of around 100 of his photographs.

Imagine receiving an unforgettable glimpse into the past. That's just what happened when author Dennette McDermott was given letters from her great-great-grandfather Dwight J. Brewer, born in 1842 in New York, who served with the 20th Michigan Infantry during the Civil War. In this new book McDermott shares some of those letters, which were kept in their original envelopes for 150 years.

The majority of you reading this are book lovers and supporters of your local independent bookstore. That makes you members of several communities. There's the community of your town or city, of which your store is an important part. Together with other locally owned businesses, your bookstore helps give your community a special character and serve its residents in ways no other businesses can. Because more of the money you spend at locally owned businesses stays in the community than money spent elsewhere, purchases at your local bookstore in a variety of ways support your local economy, schools, government, services, charities and other organizations.

Andrea Rosen Gallery and Regen Projects are thrilled for the US premier of Ryan Trecartin's new movies:CENTER JENNY (US, 2013), Comma Boat (US, 2013), Item Falls (US, 2013), and Junior War, which will open the fifth annual Migrating Forms film festival at BAMcinématek tonight, December 11th.

The public is welcome to attend next week's online live event, a book release party for Brian Hodge's Whom the Gods Would Destroy. It will be held on DarkFuse's Events Page at 9 PM EST on Tuesday, 12/10/13. You can sign up to be reminded about the event HERE. There will be prizes drawn at random for several lucky attendees.

OperaDelaware presents Peabody Opera's Hansel and Gretel, today, December 7 at 10:30 am / 1:30 pm.

Now available in Kindle, paperback and limited edition hardcover is Peter Giglio's latest novel, Lesser Creatures. Fifteen years. That's how long the dead have walked among the living. But these corpses aren't the feral monsters mankind feared. Instead, known as Second-Lifers, they appear relatively harmless and in need of help, presenting a strain on an already struggling economy and creating a generation with the fewest technological advances in centuries.

New York Theatre Ballet with A Music Hall and Music Without Borders presents Keith Michael's The Nutcracker today, November 30, 2013 at 3pm at Tarrytown Music Hall, 13 Main St., Tarrytown, NY. Tickets are $35, and are available at online at tarrytownmusichall.org, via TicketForce at (877) 840-0457, or in-person at the Tarrytown Music Hall box office. For more information, contact the Tarrytown Music Hall box office at(914) 631-3390 ext.100.

Start shopping tomorrow morning at 8:00 am, online or by phone. Choose from six different opera packages including some with performances by Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. All Black Friday packages will be double their existing discount and NO FEES!

Galerie Lelong is pleased to announce that Jaume Plensa has received the Velázquez Visual Arts Prize 2013 from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain. The jury awarded the prize to Plensa for 'the coherence of a career in which he has thoroughly reinvented the plastic language of sculpture, integrating poetry and conceptualization in designs of great aesthetic intensity.' The prize was established in 2002 by the Spanish Culture Ministry to reward the achievements of artists in the visual arts. Plensa also recently received Spain's National Award for Graphic Arts (2013) and National Award for Plastic Arts (2012).

Comix At Foxwoods Headliners Michael Che · Friday, November 29 at 8 p.m.; Saturday, November 30 at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. · Tickets are $20, $40 and $50 in advance

Orange County, Calif.—Nov. 22, 2013—Pacific Symphony mesmerizes audiences of all ages with the magic, wonder and imagination of Tchaikovsky's treasured ballet during the anticipated holiday concert, “Nutcracker for Kids,” part of Family Musical Mornings presented by Farmers and Merchants Bank. Led for the first time by Assistant Conductor Alejandro Gutiérrez, the Symphony teams up with the dazzling dancers of Festival Ballet Theatre to bring the story of Clara and her brave prince to life! Tchaikovsky's beautiful melodies soar and the colorful dancers enchant throughout the epic battle with the Mouse King, the Land of Sweets, Waltz of the Flowers and the captivating Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Especially suited for children ages 5-11, but just as enjoyable for parents and grandparents alike, this 45-minute version is narrated by Bree Burgess of No Square Theatre in Laguna Beach. The festive tradition also includes a holiday sing-along of “Jingle Bells,” “The Dreidel Song” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.” And a special guest is set to arrive sporting his famous red suit and fluffy white beard to spread the holiday cheer—Santa Claus!

The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera Youth Orchestras (CSOYO) continue their 2013-2014 season today, November 25 at 7:30pm at the Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences (CSAS) Auditorium with a concert performed by the Prelude and Etude Orchestras, conducted by Nichole Pitts. Lisa Smith is accompanist.