Celebrating 25 years as one of the premier cultural events in South Florida, the University of Miami Frost School of Music's annual Festival Miami will hold its first performance in the BankUnited Center on the UM campus October 23 at 8 p.m.

It's been 10 years aborning, but a state-of-the-art Santa Monica College center for the performing arts opened on Saturday night with an inaugural concert starring the amazing and durable thrush, Barbara Cook.

MIDLAND, Pa., May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The musical compositions left to posterity by Henry Mancini vary from the powerful and energetic to the romantic and sensual -- perfect inspiration for dance interpretation.

By BOB KEYES Staff Writer Henry Mancini had a string of concerts booked when he died in 1994. Rather than cancel the shows, promoters asked the composer's friend Bill Conti to fill the dates. But Conti balked.

PORTLAND - PSO Pops! will present music by Henry Mancini and Bill Conti under the direction of Conti, an Oscar and Emmy Award-winning composer and conductor, Saturday and Sunday, March 15-16, at Merrill Auditorium.